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Report: Billions in Venezuelan revenues vanish under Washington control
The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has collected billions of dollars in Venezuelan oil revenues while withholding control of the funds...
Uganda declares itself Ebola-free
The Ugandan Health Ministry declared the country free of Ebola on July 28, more than two months after an outbreak of the Bundibugyo strain...
Guyana appoints experts tasked with investigating ferry capsizing that killed dozens
GEORGETOWN, Guyana—Guyana’s government on July 26 appointed a group of international experts to investigate the recent sinking of a state ferry that killed dozens of passengers in...
Brazil’s government says it is working with Peru to protect border Indigenous lands
SAO PAULO—Brazil’s Ministry of Indigenous Peoples said July 24 it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Peru’s Ministry of Culture to strengthen cooperation in...
Black organizations convene virtual town hall on Cuba’s plight
WASHINGTON—In what participants called a historic gathering, more than two dozen Black organizations and leaders from across the diaspora recently convened a virtual town...
Two Palestinians killed as residents confront settler raid in occupied West Bank
Two Palestinian men have been killed by Israeli occupation forces in the village of Deir Jarir, east of the occupied West Bank city of...
Official reports ‘unprecedented’ rise in Gaza miscarriages amid Israeli genocide
by Brett Wilkins, CommonDreams.org A senior medical official in the Gaza Strip sounded the alarm on July 21 over a dramatic rise in miscarriages in the Palestinian...
Supreme Leader Khamenei’s funeral and pro-government demonstrations in Iran show national resilience
Iranian officials and supporters have displayed national resilience amid funeral processions and the deaths and property damage caused by continued U.S. strikes. The Muslim-majority country...
What is behind the rise of Islamophobia in South Africa?
Political figures and advocates in South Africa are raising the alarm bells over the rising tide of Islamophobia, which they argue is...
United by grief, mothers in Brazil demand reparations after police killed their sons
RIO DE JANEIRO—When a Brazilian police officer killed Ana Paula Oliveira’s 19-year-old son in a Rio de Janeiro favela in 2014, the mother of two didn’t...