CELAC's support for Puerto Rico's decolonization comes at a time when the island rejects statehood as an attempt to perpetuate its colonization. In Puerto Rico, pro-independence organizations welcomed the resolution in support of Puerto Rico's decolonization adopted last week by the 6th Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) in Mexico, said Edwin González, Puerto Rican delegate in Cuba.

Videos come to light as part of a day of protests by the parents of the Ayotzinapa normalistas, seven years after their disappearance. Mexico's defunct Center for Investigations and National Security (Cisen) recorded 40 videos where various public officials tortured witnesses in the case of the disappearance of the 43 normalistas in 2014, to impose the alleged historical truth of the events.

The Gilgamesh Tablet, which features inscriptions in Sumerian, is considered one of the world’s oldest religious texts. The U.S. will return a 3,500-year-old clay tablet previously owned by craft retail chain Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. to Iraq after the Justice Department concluded it was stolen around the start of the Gulf War and sold illegally in the U.S. market.