Addis Ababa, March 19 (RHC)-- The Ethiopian transport minister said early investigations have revealed “clear similarities” between the crashes of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 and October’s Lion Air Flight 610 in Indonesia. ... More


La Paz, March 19 (RHC)-- Bolivian Foreign Minister Diego Pary says that the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) remains active with its members fully engaged, following the recent decision of Ecuador to leave the block and demand the return of the building that houses the General Secretariat in Quito.... More


New York, March 19 (RHC)-- In climate news, a new study finds rainstorms are becoming far more frequent across Greenland -- even in winter -- accelerating the melting of vast areas of ice and setting the stage for global sea level rise that could inundate coastal areas home to hundreds of millions of people. ... More


Drew Angerer/Getty Images File photo: Signs left by protestors signal support of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro outside the Venezuelan Consulate in Midtown

Caracas, March 18 (RHC)—Venezuela’s constitutional government  denounced on Monday the illegal and forcible  occupation by opposition representatives of three of its diplomatic properties in the United States with the connivance of the host country’s authorities.... More


 Evo Morales Proposes International Forum of Leftist Leaders. Bolivia's presidente Evo Morales (L) y Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipra (R)

Athens, March 18 (RHC)-- Bolivian President Evo Morales has called on European and Latin American presidents to confront the far-right attacks against sovereign countries, while also stressing opposition to intervention in Venezuela. ... More


New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern

Christchurch, March 18 (RHC)-- Mourners gathered over the weekend in New Zealand and around the world to pay tribute to the victims of Friday’s deadly terrorist massacre at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand.... More


Washington, March 18 (RHC)-- In an effort to threaten everyone into not investigating U.S. or Israeli war crimes in the International Criminal Court, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says anyone involved in such probes will lose their visa and may be sanctioned. ... More


Rafael Correa

Brussels, March 18 (RHC)-- In an interview granted to teleSUR, former Ecuadorean president Rafael Correa said that Lenin Moreno decided to leave UNASUR "at this point in time, to please Washington; as he is a vassal agent of Washington, (Moreno) will support everything he believes to be against Venezuela." ... More


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London, March 18 (RHC)-- In Britain, Labour Party and opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn is renewing calls for the U.K. to stop selling arms to Israel in light of the recent U.N. inquiry that found that Israel may have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in their response to protesters in Gaza.... More


 American and Brazilian activists protest against the upcoming visit of Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, before the White House. Photograph: Eric Baradat/AFP

Washington, March 18 (RHC)— Hundreds of American and Brazilian activists protested against the upcoming visit of Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, before the White House on Sunday.... More


Moscow, March 16 (RHC)-- The Venezuelan energy sector was “targeted from abroad,” Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson said, claiming the culprits aimed for the grids which work on Western-made equipment. ... More


Caracas, March 16 (RHC)-- Six months after the failed assassination attempt against Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro, CNN revealed previously unpublished images of how such attack was prepared on a Colombian farm, information which was provided by one of whom were involved in the attempted attack, a report that agrees with the government's assertaions about the attack. Caracas, March 16 (RHC)-- Six months after the failed assassination attempt against Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro, CNN revealed previously unpublished images of how such attack was prepared on a Colombian farm, information which was provided by one of whom were involved in the attempted attack, a report that agrees with the government's assertaions about the attack. ... More


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Geneva, March 16 (RHC)-- Mexican authorities have been linked to the disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa students, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). ... More


Jorge Arreaza

Vienna, March 16 (RHC)-- Venezuelan Minister of Foreign Affairs Jorge Arreaza said his country is implementing methods to grapple with narcotics sales and consumptions, denouncing Colombia and the United States as responsible for the damages caused by drugs in the Americas at the United Nations Commission of Narcotics in Vienna, Austria.... More


Quito, March 15 (RHC)-- In a letter addressed to the Secretariat of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) Pro Tempore, the Ecuadorean government has formalized the decision to suspend its participation and withdraw from the Constitutional Treaty of UNASUR, thereby leaving the regional bloc.... More


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