Gaza City, June 16 (RHC)-- The Israeli air force launched air raids on the Gaza Strip early on Wednesday after Palestinians in the besieged enclave sent incendiary balloons into southern Israel, Israel’s military and witnesses in Gaza said.... More


Lima, June 16 (RHC)-- The presidential candidate for the Peru Libre organization, Pedro Castillo, won in the elections against the ultra-right-wing Keiko Fujimori after the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE) counted 100 percent of the polling stations.... More


La Paz, June 15 (RHC)-- Bolivian authorities have requested the testimony of former president Carlos Mesa and more than 30 other former officials and politicians for the coup d'etat carried out in November 2019.    The president of the Bolivian Chamber of Deputies, Freddy Mamani, has requested that the Prosecutor's Office summon former President Carlos Mesa for the coup d'état that was consummated against Evo Morales in November 2019.... More


Lima, June 15 (RHC)-- The Peruvian presidential candidate for the Peru Libre party, Pedro Castillo, who is leading the count of the second electoral round, rejected calls to annul the elections under the presumption of fraud made by politicians supporting Keiko Fujimori.... More


Berlin, June 15 (RHC)-- Global warning may have already passed an irreversible tipping point, the scientist who led the biggest-ever expedition to the Arctic has warned.  Presenting the first findings of the world’s largest mission to the North Pole, an expedition involving 300 scientists from 20 countries, Markus Rex said on Tuesday that the researchers had found that Arctic ice is retreating faster than ever before.... More


Bogota, June 15 (RHC)-- The National Strike Committee (CNP) of Colombia announced on Tuesday new strategies of struggle to avoid violence and deaths that occur as a result of state repression against protesters, and temporarily suspended the Wednesday mobilizations that have been taking place in the country since April 28th.... More


Lima, June 15 (RHC)-- The Peruvian Armed Forces issued a statement to reiterate their respect for the constitutional order and to distance themselves from rumors of a coup d'état in the country, which is still waiting to know who was the official winner of the presidential elections 10 days ago.... More


La Paz, June 15 (RHC)-- Former Bolivian President Jeanine Áñez has admitted before the country’s prosecutor’s office that she lacked legal authorization to assume presidency and did this through the instrumental use of regulations to take office.... More


La Paz, June 15 (RHC)-- The president of Bolivia, Luis Arce, thanked his Mexican counterpart, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, for the donation of vaccines to several countries in the region to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.... More


Minneapolis, June 15 (RHC)-- A car has plowed into protesters during a protest in a U.S. city, on edge for the past year since the killing of George Floyd.  The deadly incident occurred in the Uptown neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Monday afternoon.... More


London, June 15 (RHC)-- British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has confirmed that the next planned relaxation of coronavirus restrictions in England will be delayed by four weeks – until July 19 – as a result of the spread of the Delta coronavirus variant.... More


Sanaa, June 14 (RHC)-- The bodies of 25 migrants have been recovered off the coast of Yemen after their boat, reportedly carrying up to 200 people, capsized, a provincial official told AFP news agency.... More


Baghdad, June 14 (RHC)-- An unidentified drone has dropped a number of explosive projectiles on a US military facility at the Baghdad International Airport in Iraq.  A security source told Shafaq News that the explosive-laden drone targeted a wall of an airbase at the airport at dawn Monday.... More


Christchurch, June 14 (RHC)-- A planned film about the 2019 Christchurch mosque killings has sparked an intense backlash in New Zealand, with community members and leaders slamming the project for pushing a “white saviour” narrative.... More


Buenos Aires, June 14 (RHC)-- In Buenos Aires, agents of the Interpol department of the Argentinean Federal Police (PFA) captured this Saturday the former army colonel Walter Klug Rivera, who is convicted of crimes committed during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990) in Chile and was a fugitive in Argentina.... More


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