Lima, June 9 (RHC)-- Pedro Castillo, the candidate of Peru Libre, has declared himself the winner of the presidential elections. "We will be a government respectful of democracy, of the current Constitution and we will form a government with financial and economic stability," Castillo told thousands of his supporters gathered in Lima.... More
Bogota, June 9 (RHC)-- In Colombia, the National Strike Committee has called for the great takeover of Bogota this Wednesday as part of the social mobilizations in rejection of President Ivan Duque's economic agenda and against the repression by the Mobile Anti-Riot Squad (Esmad) against protesters.... More
Damascus, June 9 (RHC)-- The Syrian military says the country’s air defenses have intercepted a number of Israeli missiles in the skies over the capital Damascus.... More
Pretoria, June 9 (RHC)-- In a damning indictment of Israel’s genocidal policies in the occupied West Bank, two former Israeli envoys have termed the regime’s occupation as “apartheid,” drawing parallels with pre-1994 South Africa where racial segregation was legalized.... More
Washington, June 9 (RHC)-- A new proposal by the Federal Anti-Solitary Taskforce (FAST) calls on the U.S. government to use legislative, executive and administrative methods to end the “torture” of solitary confinement on inmates in federal detention.... More
New Delhi, June 8 (RHC)-- As a devastating second wave of COVID-19 ebbs with less than 100,000 new cases reported on Tuesday, India is now battling a new scare: Mucormycosis, commonly referred to as “black fungus,” is a rare fungal disease with a high mortality rate.... More
Tel Aviv, June 8 (RHC)-- Israel’s attorney general has informed the Supreme Court that he will not intervene in the legal proceedings of a high-profile Sheikh Jarrah case in which four Palestinian families in occupied East Jerusalem are facing imminent forced expulsion in favour of Israeli settlement organisations.... More
Washington, June 8 (RHC)-- The Joe Biden administration will defend former President Donald Trump against a defamation lawsuit brought by E. Jean Carroll, who accused Trump of raping her in the 1990s. ... More
New York, June 8 (RHC)-- ProPublica has obtained a vast trove of IRS data showing how U.S. billionaires pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes even nothing. ... More
Birmingham, June 8 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Alabama, 1,100 coal miners have entered the second month of their strike against the Warrior Met Coal company. Six years ago, the miners accepted a huge pay cut in order to help their company emerge from bankruptcy. ... More
New York, June 8 (RHC)-- New data shows atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have reached their highest level in over 4 million years. Scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration measured CO2 levels averaging 419 parts per million in May — about 50% higher than pre-industrial levels.... More
United Nations, June 8 (RHC)-- Foreign Minister Abdulla Shahid of the Maldives has won an election as the next president of the United Nations General Assembly. Shahid pledged to push for equal access to coronavirus vaccines, a stronger and greener economic recovery and stepped-up efforts to tackle climate change.... More
India has begun easing coronavirus restrictions after daily infections hit a two-month low. India is still reporting about 100,000 cases and 2,000 deaths from COVID-19 each day.... More
Minneapolis, June 8 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Minnesota, over 100 water protectors were arrested Monday in the largest act of civil disobedience to date aimed at halting the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline. ... More
Ottawa, June 8 (RHC)-- A Canadian driver plowed a pickup truck into a family of five, killing four of them and seriously injuring the other in an attack that targeted the victims because they were Muslims, Canadian police said Monday.... More
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