San Salvador, February 28 (RHC)-- Voters are going to the polls in El Salvador on Sunday, electing a new Congress, 262 mayors of the country and a score of deputies of the Central American Parliament (PARLACEN), an institution dedicated to regional integration.... More


Caracas, February 28 (RHC)-- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro expressed this Saturday in the middle of the Bicentennial Congress of the Peoples that the South American nation will thoroughly review relations with Spain.... More


Santiago de Chile, February 28 (RHC)-- The Special Forces of Carabineros of Chile repressed thousands of people who gathered in the Plaza de la Dignidad (Plaza Baquedano) in Santiago de Chile to demand the freedom of political prisoners.... More


Ramallah, February 28 (RHC)-- Schools in the occupied West Bank will shut down for 12 days in an effort to stop a sharp rise in coronavirus variant infections, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh said on Saturday.... More


Orlando, February 28 (RHC)-- The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the U.S.’s largest annual gathering of Republicans, has over the years served as a gauge for the direction of the party and its supporters.... More


Tehran, February 28 (RHC)-- Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said recent rocket attacks against U.S. positions in Iraq are “suspicious” and the perpetrators must be identified.  Following a meeting in Tehran with his Iraqi counterpart Fuad Hussein, Zarif said on Saturday the series of attacks could be aimed at damaging Iran-Iraq relations.... More


Damascus, February 28 (RHC)-- Syria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates has urged the United Nations Security Council to assume its responsibility and put an immediate end to U.S. acts of aggression against the Arab country. ... More


Washington, February 28 (RHC)-- The total number of COVID-19 cases in the United States surpassed 28.48 million infections, with over 510,000 deaths, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. ... More


Rome, February 28 (RHC)-- The uneven distribution of vaccines between wealthier and poorer countries is a key concern of Group of 20 (G-20) nations as leaders consider how to create even footing for recovery from the coronavirus pandemic both in economic and health terms, Italy’s economy minister sad.... More


Geneva, February 28 (RHC)-- Countries seeking their own COVID-19 vaccine doses are making deals with drug companies that threaten the supply for the global COVAX program for poor and middle-income countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced.... More


Abidjan, February 28 (RHC)-- Ivory Coast has become the second country to receive a shipment of COVID-19 vaccines via COVAX, the global vaccine-sharing program.... More


Washington, February 28 (RHC)-- New satellite photos show a clearer view of a secretive nuclear arms factory of the Israeli regime, which is the only possessor of atomic bombs in the Middle East, revealing that the site is undergoing what appears to be the biggest construction project in decades.... More


Brasilia, February 27 (RHC)-- A campaign in defense of the political rights of the former president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, was held on Saturday.  The "Free Lula Working Group" was attended by former President Dilma Rousseff, former Foreign Minister Celso Amorim, Maranhão governor Flávio Dino, Joao Pedro Stédile, from the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) and the mayor of the French city of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, among others.... More


Brussels, February 27 (RHC)-- The European Network of Solidarity with Venezuela condemned in a statement the decision of the European Union to declare the Venezuelan representative to the regional bloc, Ambassador Claudia Salerno, persona non grata. ... More


London, February 27 (RHC)-- The number of women on the boards of directors of the UK’s 350 top publicly traded firms has jumped by more than 50 percent since 2015, but women are still underrepresented in senior executive roles.... More


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