Tel Aviv, January 2 (RHC)-- Two teenage boys from the Jewish-only settlement of Bat Ayin have been arrested for attacking a pair of cops disguised as Palestinian laborers in what the right-wing legal aid group defending them has condemned as a “provocation.”... More


Mayor of the Santiago de Chile Metropolitan Area Felipe Guevara.  (Photo: Twitter/ @Carlossassarini)

Santiago de Chile, January 2 (RHC)-- Chile’s lawmaker of the Social Convergence party Gabriel Boric Thursday confirmed that a coalition of progressive parties will present a constitutional accusation against the Santiago Metropolitan Mayor Felipe Guevara who is one of the authorities responsible for the brutal repression that the Military Police has been performing against citizens at Dignity Square.... More


Sydney, January 2 (RHC)-- In Australia, the eastern state of New South Wales has declared a week-long state of emergency amid raging climate-fueled wildfires. ... More


Nicolas Maduro during interview with Ignacio Ramonet in Caracas. January 1, 2020.  (Photo: Twitter / @PresidencialVen)

Caracas, January 2 (RHC)-- During an interview in Caracas, Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro assessed the year 2019 and made a socio-political and economic prediction for 2020.... More


Tel Aviv, January 2 (RHC)-- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has officially requested parliamentary immunity from prosecution in multiple corruption cases hanging over him ahead of upcoming March elections.... More


Bolsonaro's worst evaluated areas are the fight against poverty and health care with figures under 20 percent of approval.  (Photo: Reuters)

Brasilia, January 2 (RHC)-- Brazilian far-right President Jair Bolsonaro began his term in January 2019 with a 49 percent popularity rating, however, after a year of poor economic performance, violence and unpopular neoliberal reforms the president's support has dropped almost 20 points, according to a survey conducted by the Datafolha consulting firm Wednesday.... More


Mexico City, January 2 (RHC)-- Over 15 inmates were killed and five others were severely injured on Wednesday afternoon following a fight that broke out inside a Mexican prison, the state government said.... More


Baghdad, January 2 (RHC)-- U.S. diplomats at the American Embassy in Baghdad say they have suspended all of its public consular operations, following protests by Iraqi demonstrators at the embassy to condemn Washington’s fatal military aggression targeting Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU).... More


Baghdad, January 1 (RHC)-- Iraqi security forces have regained control of the area around the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad after the compound was rocked by a second day of mass protests on Wednesday.  Earlier in the day, security personnel fired tear gas and rubber bullets at hundreds of protesters -- some of whom were seen trying to climb the building's walls.... More


Moscow, January 1 (RHC)-- Iran and Russia have denounced attempts by Western states, the United States in particular, at increasing tensions in the Middle East region.  “Thousands of miles away from its own borders, the United States is causing bloodshed and destruction against the people of Iraq and Syria in the name of defending itself,” Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said during a meeting Monday with his Russian counterpart in Moscow.... More


Australia's Rural Fire Service has been battling bushfires for weeks.  (Photo: Department of Environmen/AFP]

Melbourne, January 1 (RHC)-- About 100,000 people were urged to flee five Melbourne suburbs on Monday evening as Australia's spiralling bushfire crisis killed a volunteer firefighter battling a separate blaze in the countryside.... More


Airport worker's spokesman Fernando Simoes said 19 flights had been cancelled due to the strike.  (Photo: Reuters)

Lisbon, January 1 (RHC)-- As the strike at Portugal's Lisbon International Airport reached its third consecutive day, a number of flights were canceled. ... More


Washington, January 1 (RHC)-- Up to 4,000 American paratroopers have been ordered to deploy to the Middle East region following mass protests outside the U.S. embassy by Iraqi protesters infuriated over Washington’s recent deadly military aggression on the Arab country.... More


Buenos Aires, January 1 (RHC)-- The expulsion of diplomats from Mexico and Spain by the de facto Bolivian regime is an act of contempt for international law, the democratically-elected President Evo Morales said on Tuesday.  Morales condemned the move by "the coup plotters," highlighting the fact that they have been hurting the Andean nation's diplomatic ties.... More


Homicides diminished from 34 for 100,000 inhabitants in 2012 to 24, but activists deplore that the rate doesn't go lower.  (Photo: EFE)

Bogota, January 1 (RHC)-- A total of 10,468 homicides have been officially recorded in Colombia between January and November 2019 according to the Foundation Peace and Reconciliation, corresponding to a rise of 2.34 percent compared with the previous year.... More


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