El Paso, February 23 (RHC)-- The United States has abruptly cancelled plans to bring asylum seekers into Texas at two ports of entry, dashing the hopes of hundreds who have been waiting for months in Mexico under a Trump-era policy President Joe Biden promised to unwind.... More


Mexico City, February 22 (RHC)-- The president of Argentina, Alberto Fernandez, arrived early Monday morning to Mexico, beginning a three-day official visit to that country.... More


Caracas, February 22 (RHC)-- The education ministers of the member countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People's Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP) held a meeting on Monday to outline educational strategies in the midst of the pandemic.... More


Brasilia, February 22 (RHC)-- The Supreme Federal Court (STF), of Brazil has filed a criminal action in the Prosecutor's Office against President Jair Bolsonaro for ordering the use of chloroquine in the treatment of COVID-19.... More


Caracas, February 22 (RHC)-- The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro Moros, repudiated on Monday the more than 450 unilateral sanctions imposed by the United States and the European Union on his country, which he described as illegal and attributed to them the provocation of a humanitarian crisis in a malicious and premeditated manner.... More


Paris, February 22 (RHC)-- France is beginning the process of shutting down the far-right Generation Identity (GI) group, a move that comes after Al Jazeera’s undercover investigation exposed the group’s racism, violence, and connections with Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party.... More


New Delhi, February 22 (RHC)-- The Indian state of Maharashtra has ordered fresh restrictions on people’s movement and imposed nighttime curfews in some cities after a spike in coronavirus cases in recent weeks that came following months of a steady nationwide decline.... More


New York, February 22 (RHC)-- The first case of a fast-spreading coronavirus variant from South Africa has been discovered in a resident of the U.S. state of New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo said.... More


Tehran, February 22 (RHC)-- South Korea has agreed to release “a part” of billions of dollars of Iranian money it had blocked in its banks for years because of United States sanctions.  In a statement, the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) said South Korean Ambassador to Tehran Ryu Jeong-hyun announced the news in a meeting his embassy requested.... More


Quito, February 22 (RHC)-- The Organization of American States (OAS) has published a preliminary report of the presidential and parliamentary elections held in Ecuador last February 7, 2021, where it asks the National Electoral Council (CNE) to respect the electoral calendar.... More


New York, February 22 (RHC)-- The family of civil rights icon Malcolm X is demanding authorities reopen an investigation of his assassination, after new evidence was unveiled in a letter by a former police officer. ... More


New York, February 22 (RHC)-- More than 500,000 people in the United States with coronavirus have died, according to Johns Hopkins University data, the highest death toll by far of any country in the world.... More


Brasilia, February 22 (RHC)-- In Brazil, labor unions, social and political activists and movements returned to the streets this Sunday to demand the resignation of the president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, for his mis-management in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic in the country.... More


San Diego, February 22 (RHC)-- Migrant smugglers in the United States are taking advantage of the deep freeze in Texas to bring in more people from Mexico.  The winter storm hitting the southern states has given the smugglers a rare chance to boost business.... More


Washington, February 22 (RHC)-- Sister Dianna Ortiz, a Catholic nun and outspoken opponent of torture, has died of cancer at the age of 62. ... More


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