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Online Agencies Between January 2016 and May 30, 2019, 482 leaders were murdered and between April 2018 and April 2019, 982 leaders were threatened in Colombia. The Defenders of Peace Movement said Monday that in the last one month at least 10 social leaders were killed in Colombia and called for an international march on […]

“They can’t deny it: The power is in the street,” San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz tweeted on Monday. By TeleSur Tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans took the streets Monday, on the tenth day of consecutive protests to demand Governor Ricardo Rossello to resign. “They can’t deny it: The power is in the street,” […]

By Juan Fernando Teran The United States has been playing the role of the world’s economic bully. So far, the U.S. has imposed sanctions against Afghanistan, Burundi, Burma, Cuba, North Korea, China, Cyprus, Haiti, Libya, Lebanon, Belarus, Crimea, Eritrea, Iran, Iraq, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Russia, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, […]

By TeleSur Tensions between Washington and Tehran are at a decade-long-high since Iran downed a U.S. reconnaissance plane over the Strait of Hormuz in June. Iran is ready to hold talks with the United States if Washington lifts the sanctions against the Islamic Republic and ends their ‘bullying’ tactics, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani stated on […]

Online Agencies Although Trump’s administration has also announced it is open to negotiations with Iran, the U.S. president declared on Wednesday that sanctions on Iran would soon be increased “substantially.” Iran is ready to hold negotiation talks with the United States if Donald Trump’s administration lifts sanctions and returns to the 2015 nuclear deal it […]

By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Jun 26 2019 (IPS) – Against the back drop of widespread charges of sexual abuse and harassment at workplaces– including the United Nations– the International Labour Conference (ILC) last week adopted a “Convention” and a set of “Recommendations” to protect workers and employees worldwide. According to the Geneva-based International Labour […]

By Lakshi De Vass Gunawardena UNITED NATIONS, Jul 3 2019 (IPS) The latest statistics released by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) are staggering: 35 million people across the globe currently have a substance use disorder, and as of 2017, 585,000 people have died worldwide as a result of drug use. According to […]

Naveed Qazi, [July 1, 2019] THE troubled valley of Kashmir is a place where seasons of peace don’t last long. After death of more than hundred thousand people, it has been declared as a war zone which has its boiling points that have precipitated, out of its historic phases of insurgency. It is also a […]

“Will not tolerate separatism, terrorism” Amit Shah GK report Vowing to give a befitting reply to any attempt to break the country, Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday said “separatist movement and terrorism” will not be tolerated in Jammu and Kashmir and asserted that India wants peace, but not with those who do not respect […]

Online Agencies (24 June 2019) U.S. President Donald Trump and his son in-law/adviser Jared Kushner are preparing to unveil their so-called “deal of the century” at the Bahrain Summit this week. Arab politicians and commentators greeted U.S. President Donald Trump’s $50 billion Middle East economic vision with a mixture of derision and exasperation, although some […]