(2022-08-14). Russian envoy says sanctions against Iran can be lifted soon. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 14 (MNA) — The Russian envoy to the Vienna talks Mikhail Ulyanov on Sunday announced that the anti-Iranian sanctions can be lifted soon.
(2022-08-14). Mujeres marchan en Brasil por derechos y en respaldo a Lula. telesurtv.net "Con Bolsonaro, el hambre, la miseria y la violencia se apoderaron del país, sin embargo, son las mujeres negras y de escasos recursos las más afectadas", denunció el Comité Popular de Lucha Nacional.
(2022-08-14). FM spokesperson announces China's sanctions on Lithuanian Deputy Minister of Transport and Communications. ecns.cn China on Friday announced sanctions on Deputy Minister of Transport and Communications of Lithuania Agne Vaiciukeviciute, according to a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson.
(2022-08-13). US' serious human rights violations in the Middle East cause permanent damage. ecns.cn
(2022-08-13). US Threatens Russia And Iran With Sanctions Over Alleged Drone Deal. southfront.org 
On August 11, the United States Department of State said that it would "vigorously" enforce sanctions on Russian and Iranian arms trading, revealing that Russian officials had conducted training on drones in Iran. | Last month, senior US officials said that Iran was preparing to provide Russia with up to several hundred drones, some of which are armed, and that Russian officials had visited Iran to inspect the drones in question. The deal is supposedly meant to support Russia's ongoing special m…
(2022-08-13). 31 killed, injured in Mexican prison riot. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 13 (MNA) — A riot that broke out in a prison and spilled into the streets of the city of Ciudad Juarez in a Mexican state on the border with the United States left 11 people killed and 20 injured, a Mexican source said on Friday.
(2022-08-13). Tallahassee Police Department trains with mass murderer. fightbacknews.org Commentary by Ben Grant | Tallahassee, FL – On August 4, the Tallahassee Police Department was hosted by Stronghold SOF Solutions at their facility in DeFuniak Springs, Florida, for training led by Eddie Gallagher. Gallagher is a former Navy SEAL infamous for being court-martialed in 2019 for ten offenses under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. | Some of the of worst things Gallagher has done include posing in a photograph with the body of a murdered Iraqi teenage prisoner, shooting unarmed civilians in 2017, and, according to the New York Times, "indiscriminately spraying neighborhoods with rockets and machi…
(2022-08-13). The Chris Hedges Report: John Kiriakou, We Don't Need The CIA. popularresistance.org The CIA, from its inception, carried out assassinations, coups, torture, and illegal spying and abuse, including of US citizens, many of which were exposed in 1975 by the Church Committee in the Senate and the Pike Committee in the House. Congress attempted to enact laws to curb the widespread criminal activity by the CIA. Senate and House intelligence oversight committees were created, and after the Iran-Contra scandal a statutory Inspector General at the CIA was appointed. But this oversight has largely collapsed following the attacks of 9/11 and the so-called war on terror. The activities of the CIA have once…
(2022-08-13). Fighting for Abortion Rights in Alabama after the overturn of Roe. liberationnews.org 
The fight is on. Yellowhammer has no intentions of giving up in the struggle for abortion rights all reproductive rights and basic human rights.
(2022-08-13). WAFA: "Palestinian detainee Khalil Awawdeh remains on hunger strike for 153 days" imemc.org 
RAMALLAH, Saturday, August 13, 2022 (WAFA) — Despite his critical health condition, Palestinian detainee Khalil Awawdeh, 40, has been on hunger strike for 153 days in protest of his prolonged administrative detention without charge or trial by the Israeli occupation authorities. Awawdeh, from the town of Idna in the southern West Bank district of Hebron, …
(2022-08-13). Video: Culture of Resistance: Music behind colonial bars with Dr. Louis Brehony. samidoun.net On August 12, 2022, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network hosted a webinar with Dr. Louis Brehony, the author of "Genius in the People: On Collective Resistance and Musical Instrument Making in the Jails of the Colonizer" on Fida' al-Shaer, Syrian musician from the occupied Golan, who built an oud while locked behind colonial bars in …
(2022-08-13). Israeli Soldiers Abduct Two Palestinians From Tulkarem. imemc.org 
On Saturday, Israeli soldiers abducted two Palestinians from Tulkarem, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, including one who was taken prisoner near Salfit, in the central West Bank. The Tulkarem office of the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) said the soldiers abducted Jihad Sa'ad al-Qaisi, 24, from Tulkarem, after stopping him near the …
(2022-08-13). No agreement reached in Vienna talks on lifting sanctions. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 13 (MNA) — There's no agreement because nothing is agreed upon until everything is agreed upon, the US Special Representative for Iran said, speaking about the prospects for lifting US illegal sanctions in Vienna talks.
(2022-08-13). [Correspondence] Iran's burden of disease and burden of data collection. thelancet.com The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2019 Iran Collaborators1 analyse data from 1990 to 2019. Of particular focus was the effect of sanctions on the health of Iranians through diminished access to quality care. Recommendations described in the report included the necessity for evaluating policies, assessing needs, and setting priorities on the basis of disease burden. However, as the data series ends before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the report does not address the global public health catastrophe that has forced many nations, including Iran, to reassess their preparedness.
(2022-08-13). Lebanese cleric praises Iran for continued Palestine support. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 13 (MNA) — Sheikh Maher Hammoud, the Beirut-based head of the International Union of Resistance Scholars has hailed Iran for continuing to support the Palestinian cause despite being under tough sanctions.
(2022-08-13). Indigenous leaders elevated to prominent positions in Colombia. america.cgtn.com Environmental rights activist Leonor Zalabata Torres makes history as the first Indigenous woman to represent Colombia at the UN. Find out more.
(2022-08-13). Gustavo Petro designa nuevas autoridades militares en Colombia. telesurtv.net El mandatario colombiano expresó que el principal objetivo del nuevo mando será incrementar la seguridad, la paz y el respeto a los derechos humanos.
(2022-08-13). Iran tanker to return after failed US attempt to steal cargo. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 13 (MNA) — Iran's Embassy in Greece says an Iranian oil tanker is to head back to the country soon, after a failed attempt by the United States to steal its cargo in line with Washington's sanctions against the country.
(2022-08-12). Cuba's Deputy Foreign Minister: 4 Things We Need to Recover from the Fire. libya360.wordpress.com The fire in Cuba that burned for five days, after lightning set off a series of explosions, is finally under control. But 17 firefighters are listed as missing, and the fire destroyed what is likely to be millions of gallons of precious fuel that is hard for Cuba to obtain under stringent U.S. sanctions. As…