Tokyo, August 6 (RHC)-- The mayor of Hiroshima has renewed a call for the Japanese government to join the United Nations nuclear weapon ban treaty, as the city marks another anniversary of the United States’ atomic bombing more than seventy years ago.... More
Washington, August 6 (RHC)-- U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered a freeze on all Venezuelan government assets in the United States, stepping up pressure on Caracas with the aim of ousting President Nicolas Maduro.... More
Beijing, August 6 (RHC)-- China has vowed to take countermeasures if Washington deploys intermediate-range missiles in Asia, a plan that U.S. officials have announced. Fu Cong, the Chinese Foreign Ministry’s director general for arms control department, said in a press briefing on Tuesday that China “will not stand idly by” if the U.S. deployed missiles in Asia.... More
New York, August 6 (RHC)-- African American men are 2.5 times more likely to be killed by law enforcement over their lifetime, according to a new study. The Rutgers study identified police violence as a leading cause of death for young men in the United States and that racial bias was a definitive factor in their murders.... More
Tehran, August 6 (RHC)-- Any war with Iran will be the "Mother of All Wars," Iranian President Hassan Rouhani warned on Tuesday in a speech broadcast live on state TV, warning once again that shipping might not be safe in the Strait of Hormuz oil waterway.... More
Brisbane, August 6 (RHC)-- Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison says the United States has not requested to deploy intermediate-range missiles in his country, stressing that such a request will be met with rejection. ... More
New York, August 6 (RHC)-- U.S. President Donald Trump's pledge to impose new tariffs on Chinese goods is showing its impact on the Wall Street. Amid a fall in the yuan, the benchmark S&P 500 dropped about 3 percent on Monday. ... More
Gaza City, August 6 (RHC)-- Former Palestinian prisoners especially those who were freed in the prisoner swap deal with the Israeli regime in 2011, joined families of Palestinian prisoners in their sit-in at the Red Cross office in Gaza to slam Israel’s refusal to handover the bodies of fallen Palestinians.... More
Washington, August 6 (RHC)-- U.S. President Donald Trump has imposed sanctions on assets of the Venezuelan government, according to an executive order published on Monday.... More
Mexico City, August 6 (RHC)-- Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says that Mexico is preventing the smuggling of firearms into the country from the United States. He reported the holding of a morning security meeting in Valle de Bravo, as it is one of the Mexican states with the highest crime rates, among other reasons because it is the most populated state in the nation, with 18 million inhabitants.... More
Montevideo, August 6 (RHC)-- The Uruguayan Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued a travel warning cautioning its citizens against going to the United States “in the face of growing indiscriminate violence.”... More
Tehran, August 6 (RHC)-- Iran's Minister of Health Saeed Namaki says sanctions imposed by the United States against Iran's health sector amount to crime against humanity. The Iranian minister made the remarks in a joint press conference with his Lebanese counterpart, Jamil Jabak, in Tehran, saying: “Measures taken by the U.S. administration in banning [access to] medicines needed by Iranian patients and pressures mounted by Washington on Iran's health sector amount to crime against humanity.”... More
Washington, August 6 (RHC)-- U.S. President Donald Trump’s state of mind is “certainly questionable” to be able to say he is the “least racist person there is anywhere in the world,” American analyst and political activist Myles Hoenig says.... More
San Jose, August 6 (RHC)-- Costa Rican health workers began a general strike Monday for 48 hours in demand for strong health services and to defend the Costa Rican Social Security (CCSS).... More
New York, August 5 (RHC)-- After the United States suffered a deadly weekend with two more mass shootings with 29 dead and over 40 wounded, the attention has shifted to President Donald Trump, who blamed fake news, video games and mental illness but not his hate speech and racism, as incentives behind record-numbers in hate crimes across the nation. ... More
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