Sydney, June 8 (RHC)-- Australian police have arrested more than 200 people involved in organized crime after infiltrating an encrypted messaging app that opened up nearly 25 million messages about “industrial-scale” drug imports and murder plots, officials said.... More
Mexico City, June 8 (RHC)-- The Puebla Group sent greetings to the progressive forces that support Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador for the electoral triumph this Sunday in the elections held in the country.... More
London, June 8 (RHC)-- Finance ministers from seven of the world’s wealthiest nations have backed a plan to set a global minimum corporate tax rate of at least 15% on multinational companies. The agreement was reached during a Group of 7 (G-7) meeting in Britain. ... More
Ramallah, June 8 (RHC)-- Israel is cracking down on Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank, occupied East Jerusalem and inside Israel. The newspaper Haaretz reports Israeli police have arrested nearly 2,000 Palestinians over the past month in an attempt to quell protests and uprisings against the occupation. ... More
Vatican City, June 8 (RHC)-- At the Vatican, Pope Francis acknowledged the discovery of the bodies of 215 Indigenous children on the grounds of the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia — which was run by the Catholic Church until 1969 — but stopped short of offering the formal apology that Indigenous advocates had demanded.... More
Sacramento, June 8 (RHC)-- In the United States, a federal judge has overturned California’s long-standing ban on assault weapons, declaring it an unconstitutional “failed experiment.” ... More
New York, June 8 (RHC)-- Multiple websites operated by news outlets including the Financial Times, CNN and Bloomberg News were down across the globe on Tuesday.... More
Lima, June 8 (RHC)-- With 95.72 percent of the precincts counted, Peru's presidential candidate, Pedro Castillo, is ahead of his Popular Force opponent, Keiko Fujimori, on Monday, after the candidate reversed the preliminary results.... More
Brasilia, June 8 (RHC)-- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, former president of Brazil and leader of the Worker's Party granted an extensive interview to RT over the weekend. ... More
Bogota, June 8 (RHC)-- In Colombia, another social leader has been murdered. José Alonso was from the region of Valle del Cauca and a signatory of the 2016 peace accord between the Colombian state and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. ... More
Washington, June 7 (RHC)-- The former Minister of Communication during the de facto government of Bolivia, Roxana Lizárraga, reported that she has initiated procedures for her political asylum in the United States, the country to which she fled after the apprehension of former coup president Jeanine Áñez.... More
Washington, June 7 (RHC)-- Washington has pledged to restock the Israeli regime’s Iron Dome anti-missile batteries following their depletion during Tel-Aviv’s 11-day military campaign against occupied Palestinian territories.... More
Tehran, June 7 (RHC)-- Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh says the world will never forget the Israeli regime’s record of atrocities against the Palestinians, especially its infanticide mania, the latest example of which killed over 260 Palestinians, including 66 children, in the blockaded Gaza Strip.... More
Belfast, June 7 (RHC)-- The City Council of Belfast in Northern Ireland has approved a motion calling on the governments of the UK and Ireland to expel Israeli ambassadors over the occupying regime’s crimes against the Palestinians.... More
Berlin, June 7 (RHC)-- German Health Minister Jens Spahn wanted to distribute potentially faulty masks to the homeless and people with disabilities after spending more than €1 billion on a large consignment from China last year, a report says.... More
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