U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders speaking during a news conference at the US Capitol on July 10, 2018 in Washington, DC. Photo: AFP

Burlington, February 19 (RHC)-- U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders has announced he will run again for president in the 2020 elections, calling President Donald Trump a "pathological liar" and an “embarrassment.”  ... More


 Heather Nauert withdraws from U.N. ambassadorship consideration.  Photo: AP

Washington, February 19 (RHC)-- U.S. State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert has removed herself from consideration to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, according to a statement released in Washington, DC.   ... More


 White racist Roland Bourgeois killed three Black men in New Orleans.  Photo: Democracy Now

New Orleans, February 19 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Louisiana, a judge handed down a 10-year prison sentence to Roland Bourgeois Jr., a white man who shot three Black men in 2005 as they were trying to leave Hurricane Katrina-ravaged New Orleans. ... More


 Nigerian soldiers patrol in Aba, southeastern Nigeria, on February 15, 2019.  Photo: AFP

Banki, February 19 (RHC)-- Two Nigerian soldiers have been killed and six others injured when Boko Haram militants attacked a military post near the Cameroon border, security sources say, days before rescheduled presidential elections.... More


 Israeli forces attack worshipers, reseal al-Aqsa Mosque gate.  Photo: AFP

Jerusalem, February 19 (RHC)-- Israeli regime forces have resealed one of the al-Aqsa Mosque's gates in the occupied old city of East Jerusalem after a group of Palestinian protesters broke the lock and opened the gate for worshipers.... More


Havana, February 19 (RHC)-- Havana is the most popular port in the western Caribbean and Riviera Maya region, according to Cruise Critic reviewers. ... More


Havana, February 19 (RHC)-- Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s renewed threat to invade Venezuela.  In a Tweet, Rodríguez described Trump’s speech Monday evening in Miami, Florida, as “offensive.” ... More


Havana, February 19 (RHC)-- Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel demanded on Twitter that those who are planning to invade Venezuela, keep their hands off the South American nation.  ... More


Havana, February 19 (RHC)-- Cuban deputies have signed nationwide petition in support of Venezuelan democracy, and called on parliamentarians around the world to mobilize for peace and against possible U.S. military intervention in the South American nation.... More


Havana, February 19 (RHC)-- Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez renewed the country’s denunciation that the U.S. government is preparing a military intervention in Venezuela.... More


  Protesters against U.S. military intervention in Venezuela gathered in front of the Federal Court, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, Feb. 14, 2019.  Photo: EFE

San Juan, February 18 (RHC)-- Hundreds of Puerto Ricans, joined by formerly incarcerated revolutionary activist Oscar Lopez Rivera, have held a demonstration in front of the Federal Court, in Old San Juan, to voice opposition to a U.S. military intervention in Venezuela. ... More


 A Yemeni child suffering from severe malnutrition is measured at a hospital in northwestern Hajjah province, on January 26, 2019.  Photo: AFP

United Nations, February 18 (RHC)-- The United Nations has warned that the situation in war-ravaged Yemen is further deteriorating as the Arab country is facing the biggest humanitarian crisis in the world.  ... More


 Photo shows Palestinian prisoners in the yard of Israel's Megiddo prison.  Photo: AFP

Ramallah, February 18 (RHC)-- Three advocacy groups say Israeli forces detained more than 500 Palestinians, including dozens of children and women, last month.  The detentions in January were made in occupied Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian Prisoners Society, the prisoners and ex-prisoner affairs committee, and the prisoners’ rights group Addameer.... More


  Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Bulgaria's Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zakharieva are pictured during the conference on Peace and Security in the Middle East

Damascus, February 18 (RHC)-- The Warsaw Conference, organized by the U.S. in the Polish capital on last week, has outraged observers in the Arab world who believe their leaders attended the conference merely as “extras” in a pre-planned scenario for normalization of Israeli-Arab ties.... More


 The logo of the Venezuelan state-owned oil company PDVSA is seen at a gas station in Caracas, on January 29, 2019.  Photo: AFP

Sofia, February 18 (RHC)-- Bulgarian authorities say they have blocked money transfers out of a number of bank accounts that have received millions of euros from the Venezuelan state-owned oil and natural gas company, PDVSA.... More


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