19th Summit of Heads of State and Government of ALBA-TCP The executive secretary of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Peoples' Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP), Sacha Llorenti, said Sunday that the integration organization will hold the 19th Summit of Heads of State and Government on Thursday, June 24th.

Congolese asylum-seekers line up to undergo security and health screening in Zombo, near the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Photo: Rocco Nuri / UNHCRThe number of people fleeing wars, violence, persecution, and human rights violations, rose last year to nearly 82.4 million people, a further four percent increase on top of the already record-high of 79.5 million, recorded at the end of 2019.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, in an exclusive interview with Bloomberg News, says his country suffers an economic massacre.Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, in an exclusive interview with Bloomberg News, has denounced that the South American country suffers an economic massacre carried out from the United States, which violates the human rights of Venezuelans.

Supporters of Peru's presidential candidate Pedro Castillo in Lima, Peru June 19, 2021 Photo: Sebastian Castañeda / ReutersSupporters of socialist Pedro Castillo and right-wing Keiko Fujimori took to the streets by the thousands in Peru on Saturday, as tensions rose over the result of the June 6th presidential election.

Stella Moris, Julian Assange's partnerStella Moris, Julian Assange's partner, described Saturday as intolerable the situation of the WikiLeaks founder in the maximum-security prison in London where he is waiting for the end of the extradition process to the United States.