Brasilia, May 19 (RHC)-- More than 30 Latin American leaders, among them several former presidents, issued a letter to express their solidarity with the Colombian people, who for 22 days have been carrying out a National Strike against the Government, during which at least 43 people have been killed by police elements.... More
Madrid, May 19 (RHC)-- In a bid to prevent more people’s arrival in Ceuta, Spain has upped security along its shared border with Morocco, fired tear gas into the buffer zone between the countries, and returned people who have managed to cross into its enclave in North Africa.... More
Mexico City, May 19 (RHC)-- Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has formally apologized for a 1911 massacre in which over 300 Chinese people were killed by Mexican revolutionary troops in the northern city of Torreón. Among the victims were children and agricultural workers.... More
Brussels, May 19 (RHC)-- Belgian police are searching for a soldier with suspected far-right views who went on the run after violently threatening several prominent figures, including a renowned virologist. Justice Minister Vincent Van Quickenborne on Wednesday described Jurgen Conings, 46, as an “acute threat.”... More
Washington, May 19 (RHC)-- The U.S. House of Representatives has approved legislation to combat the rise of hate crimes against Asians during the coronavirus pandemic, sending the bill to President Joe Biden on Tuesday for his signature.... More
Ramallah, May 19 (RHC)-- Palestinians are observing a nationwide general strike across the occupied West Bank and in historic Palestine -- the lands occupied in 1948 -- to protest the Israeli massacre in the Gaza Strip and the regime's ongoing crackdown across the occupied territories.... More
La Paz, May 19 (RHC)-- The First International Summit of Indigenous Women of Abya Yala will be held May 27th and 28th in the department of Cochabamba, according to Bolivia's Vice Ministry of Communication.... More
Managua, May 19 (RHC)-- The president of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, has urged the world to consolidate world peace now in the scenario of the humanitarian and economic shocks left by the COVID-19 pandemic.... More
Santiago de Chile, May 19 (RHC)-- The plenary of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile has rejected for lack of quorum the project with which it sought to establish an exceptional and one-time tax on the "super rich" -- in the understanding of those fortunes of the country that exceed the equivalent of 22,000,000 dollars and that is intended to be able to finance an emergency universal income.... More
Palm Beach, May 19 (RHC)-- Former U.S. President Donald Trump is returning to campaign trial next month in the southeastern US state of North Carolina to address a Republican convention, according to party officials.... More
San Salvador, May 19 (RHC)-- A U.S. State Department report on Central American officials “credibly alleged” to be corrupt includes five Salvadoran officials (PDF) with ties to President Nayib Bukele, six sitting Honduran lawmakers and two Guatemalan legislators, according to a list released (PDF) by the office of US Representative Norma Torres on Tuesday.... More
New York, May 19 (RHC)-- The New York attorney general’s office has said it has begun a criminal investigation into former U.S. President Donald Trump’s company, going beyond what was initially a civil probe.... More
Washington, May 19 (RHC)-- A man from Pakistan who has spent the better part of two decades imprisoned at the controversial U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay has been cleared for release, his lawyer has said.... More
Washington, May 18 (RHC)-- The U.S. military is operating a 60,000-strong secret army without any Congressional oversight, spending at least $900 million on it annually, thus violating many U.S. laws, as well as the Geneva Conventions.... More
New Delhi, May 18 (RHC)-- In India, at least 21 people are dead and nearly 100 others missing after the most powerful tropical cyclone ever to hit western India made landfall.... More
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