Riyadh, December 21 (RHC)-- Saudi Arabia has admitted to the use of banned cluster bombs during its relentless airstrikes on Yemen.... More


Berlin, December 21 (RHC)-- German police have announced that the attacker who crashed a truck into a crowded Christmas market in Berlin is still at large after the "wrong man" was put in custody, Germany's Die Welt reported. ... More


Gaza City, December 21 (RHC)-- The Gaza Electricity Distribution Company (GEDCO) has criticized the Israeli regime over stalling repairs on one of the main power lines in the impoverished Palestinian coastal enclave, arguing that the holdup has exacerbated the already dire living conditions in the besieged territory. ... More


Caracas, December 20 (RHC)-- Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino said his country’s border with Colombia has opened on Tuesday to allow for pedestrian crossing.... More


Berlin, December 20 (RHC)-- At least 12 people have been killed and over 48 others injured after a truck drove into a Christmas market in the German capital Berlin.... More


Buenos Aires, December 20 (RHC)-- Public transit operators in Argentina launched a one-day national strike Monday morning, grinding commuting in the capital city Buenos Aires to a halt to demand changes in the income tax system in the face of what labor unions have criticized as slow progress toward reforms to benefit workers.... More


Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund

Paris, December 20 (RHC)-- A court in France has found Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), guilty of negligence over a massive state payout that she made to a business tycoon in 2008, but exempted her from any penalty.... More


Washington, December 20 (RHC)-- In the United States, the Electoral College officially announced the New York billionaire Donald Trump as the 45th president of the country, despite efforts to persuade electors not to back Trump in the vote, mostly considered a formality.... More


Panama City, December 20 (RHC)-- Panamanians marked the 27th anniversary Tuesday of the 1989 U.S. invasion of the Central American country as the exact number of victims remains unknown more than a quarter of a century after the events.... More


Washington, December 19 (RHC)-- Thousands staged protests in cities across the United States on Sunday to express their solidarity with migrants. The demonstrations came on the occasion of International Migrants Day. ... More


Quito, December 19 (RHC)-- Several strong earthquakes rattled Ecuador's northwestern coast in the pre-dawn hours of Monday, leaving some areas without power but with no reports of casualties. ... More


Brasilia, December 19 (RHC)-- In an interview broadcast by Al Jazeera, the ousted democratically elected President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, called acting President Michel Temer ‘illegitimate,’ and the process of her impeachment ‘a coup.’ ... More


United Nations, December 19 (RHC)-- The U.N. Security Council Monday unanimously passed a resolution requiring U.N. monitors during evacuations from the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo.... More


Ankara, December 19 (RHC)-- Russia’s ambassador to Turkey was shot and killed by an attacker in the capital of Ankara on Monday, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry. ... More


Washington, December 19 (RHC)-- More than half of the U.S. Republican voters wrongly believe their candidate, Donald Trump, won the popular vote in the 2016 presidential election, a new poll shows.... More


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