Bogota, June 26 (RHC)-- Colombia’s President Ivan Duque has said a helicopter he was on was struck by multiple bullets when flying through the country’s Catatumbo region towards the city of Cucuta, capital of the country’s Norte de Santander province on Friday.... More
Washington, June 26 (RHC)-- A senior U.S. official said Washington is committed to keeping troops in Syria in order to supposedly counter Islamic State terrorists and prop up its allies, the Kurdish-led SDF militia, against the government in Damascus.... More
Santiago de Chile, June 26 (RHC)-- Faced with a worsening health situation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Chile will extend the state of emergency and reinforce the measures to confront coronavirus infections.... More
Tel Aviv, June 26 (RHC)-- The Israeli health ministry has asked people to again wear masks in enclosed public places just 10 days after ending its mandatory indoor masking rule, amid a sustained surge in coronavirus infections attributed to the highly contagious Delta variant.... More
United Nations, June 26 (RHC)-- The United Nations has accused Israel of flagrantly violating international law by expanding settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, urging the country’s new government to halt their expansion immediately.... More
Brasilia, June 26 (RHC)-- A Brazilian Supreme Court justice has revoked the passport of former Environment Minister Ricardo Salles, who stepped down earlier this week amid an investigation into his alleged role in allowing illegal exports of timber from the Amazon rainforest.... More
Ramallah, June 26 (RHC)-- West Bank tensions have reached boiling point as Israeli settlers continue their expropriation of Palestinian land, in some cases defying Israeli authorities by refusing to evacuate land that Palestinians depend on for their livelihoods.... More
United Nations, June 26 (RHC)-- In Madagascar, the United Nations World Food Program warns the climate crisis has pushed over one million people “to the very edge of starvation” as the country has seen a series of severe droughts. ... More
Brussels, June 26 (RHC)-- The European Parliament has voted in favor of a landmark climate law that commits the EU to reaching climate neutrality by 2050 and reducing net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030, compared to 1990 levels. ... More
Seattle, June 26 (RHC)-- An unprecedented heat wave fueled by the climate crisis is set to bring dangerously high record temperatures to the Pacific Northwest of the United States.... More
Washington, June 26 (RHC)-- The Joe Biden administration is backing the Trump administration’s approval of the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline. The Justice Department argues in a legal filing that an Army Corps of Engineers permitting process followed its legal obligations to consider the pipeline’s environmental impacts. If completed, Line 3 would carry more than 750,000 barrels of Canadian tar sands oil a day across Indigenous land and fragile ecosystems.... More
Quito, June 25 (RHC)-- Representatives of Ecuador's ancestral peoples are arriving to the province of Tungurahua to attend the VII Congress of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (Conaie).... More
Brasilia, June 25 (RHC)-- All the processes of former judge Sergio Moro against the former president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, were annulled on Thursday by the minister of the Supreme Court of Justice of the South American country, Gilmar Mendes.... More
The Hague, June 25 (RHC)-- A Dutch activist group that won a legal battle against Royal Dutch Shell over its climate strategy has urged the company to ditch its appeal and hold joint talks on how to reduce its emissions, according to a letter seen by Reuters news agency.... More
Santiago de Chile, June 25 (RHC)-- Inhabitants of Padre Hurtado (south of Santiago de Chile) arrived at the ruins of the community's old coal mine to demand the release of all Mapuche political prisoners and other protesters who have been imprisoned for demanding their rights during the uprisings of 2019.... More
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