London, June 11 (RHC)-- Pro-Palestinian activists have taken over an aerospace factory in the northwestern British town of Runcorn, which reportedly supplies parts for drones produced by Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems.... More
Caracas, June 11 (RHC)-- While the U.S. says it will send a half billion doses of the Pfizer COVID vaccine to send abroad -- with "no strings attached" -- none of the doses will be going to Venezuela, which is under U.S. sanctions. ... More
Ramallah, June 11 (RHC)-- In the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces killed three Palestinians during a predawn undercover raid. The Israelis were dressed to look like Palestinians. The dead included two military intelligence officers with the Palestinian Authority. ... More
Tel Aviv, June 11 (RHC)-- The Israeli newspaper Haaretz has published shocking video of Israeli prison guards brutally kicking, punching and beating shackled Palestinians inside a prison in the Negev Desert in 2019. ... More
London, June 11 (RHC)-- U.S. President Joe Biden and other leaders of the G-7 nations are pledging to donate one billion doses of COVID vaccines to poorer countries as part of an effort to end the pandemic by the end of 2022.... More
San Juan, June 11 (RHC)-- A power outage occurred Thursday afternoon in several areas of San Juan, the capital of Puerto Rico, and other towns in the eastern part of the Caribbean island, after an explosion occurred at the Monacillos Technical Operations Center, an agency of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (Prepa).... More
United Nations, June 11 (RHC)-- According to a United Nations report, child labor has increased to 160 million – the first rise in two decades – and that number could swell by millions more because of the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.... More
Bogota, June 11 (RHC)-- Demonstrators participating in the National Strike in Colombia, which has been going on since April 28th, were repressed Thursday night by the security forces, with a preliminary balance of one dead and a dozen injured.... More
La Paz, June 11 (RHC)-- The Government of Ecuador presided by Lenín Moreno supported the coup against the then president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, in November 2019, and loaned weapons to the de facto regime headed by Jeanine Áñez, a Bolivian official source denounced on Thursday.... More
La Paz, June 10 (RHC)-- The Executive Secretary of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America / Peoples' Trade Agreement, ALBA-TCP, Sacha Llorenti, assured that the United States is taking advantage of the pandemic as a weapon to strengthen illegal measures against countries such as Venezuela and Cuba.... More
Ramallah, June 11 (RHC)-- A Palestinian child has died a day after being seriously wounded by ordnance left from the recent Israeli military aggression against the besieged Gaza Strip, local media reports say. ... More
New York, June 10 (RHC)-- A new report by Public Citizen finds that 55 major U.S. corporations that paid no federal taxes last year spent a collective $450 million on political lobbying and campaigns since the 2016 election cycle. ... More
Washington, June 10 (RHC)-- Attorney General Merrick Garland is supporting the Justice Department’s decision to defend former President Donald Trump against a defamation lawsuit brought by a woman who accused Trump of raping her in the 1990s. ... More
Lima, June 10 (RHC)-- The National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE) of Peru has published the results of the second round of elections to elect the new president of Peru, resulting in the victory of the candidate for Peru Libre, Pedro Castillo, with 50.19 percent of the valid votes after 100 percent of the processed reports.... More
Ottawa, June 10 (RHC)-- The Canadian company TC Energy says it is canceling construction of the 1,200-mile Keystone XL pipeline, which would have carried over 800,000 barrels of oil each day from Canada’s tar sands region across fragile ecosystems in the United States. ... More
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