As the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum, or APEC, gets underway in Lima, elsewhere in the Peruvian capital, labor unions gathered in protest as the Peruvian General Confederation of Workers hosts a conference on workers rights in critique of the business-oriented forum. ... More
United Nations, November 19 (RHC)-- The United Nations has called the Argentinean government to do more to combat the alarming rising of femicides that have plagued the South American nation in recent years. ... More
Tel Aviv, November 19 (RHC)-- Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman proposed Israel should strike a deal with the U.S. President-elect under which it would freeze building in the more isolated of its West Bank settlements while ramping up construction in the major settlement blocs. ... More
Tegucigalpa, November 18 (RHC)-- As President-elect Donald Trump is reportedly standing by his commitment to deport up to three million migrants starting in January, the presidents of Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala area looking to coordinate their response with Mexico.... More
Washington, November 18 (RHC)-- The Director of U.S. National Intelligence, James Clapper, has handed in his resignation.... More
Guatemala City, November 18 (RHC)-- The former dictator of Guatemala Jose Efrain Rios Montt will face genocide charges for a 1982 massacre that killed 273 Indigenous people and campesinos, almost half of them minors. ... More
Washington, November 18 (RHC)-- The private prison corporation CoreCivic, formerly known as the Corrections Corporation of America, announced that the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons will extend a two-year contract ... More
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Sydney, November 18 (RHC)-- The wellbeing of Indigenous Australians “has stagnated or worsened” as they continue to face mental health problems... More
Washington, November 18 (RHC)-- A new study is putting pressure on the U.S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs to expand benefits for Vietnam War veterans who were exposed to Agent Orange as it argues those exposed to the toxin have higher rates of hypertension. ... More
Mexico City, November 18 (RHC)-- The Mexican government has launched a total of 11 actions that will be implemented in order to cope with the possible mass deportation of undocumented nationals from the United States once Donald Trump takes over the presidency. ... More
Paris, November 18 (RHC)-- French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has admitted that far-right politician Marine Le Pen and her allies could win the next presidential election in the country, saying Donald Trump's shock victory in the United States has greatly boosted her chances for a rise in the French power system. ... More
Brasilia, November 17 (RHC)-- A group of approximately 60 anti-austerity protesters entered the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies causing chaos and bringing an abrupt end to the session. ... More
Tripoli, November 17 (RHC)-- More than 100 refugees and migrants are lost at sea in the Mediterranean, with only 23 of 122 in a capsized dinghy that disappeared off the Libyan coast — bumping up the death toll Tuesday to almost 4,300 this year. ... More
Mexico City, November 17 (RHC)-- During a speech delivered at a business summit in the central Mexican state of Puebla, President Peña Nieto said that discussions with the newly-elected President of the U.S. would be based “always on the defense of basic principles... More
Washington, November 17 (RHC)-- One week after citizens in the U.S. voted in their new president, Donald J. Trump, the Black Lives Matter Global Network issued an official statement, weighing in on the tumultuous events of the past week and strengthening their resolve to continue organizing. ... More
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