Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has welcomed the prospect of normalized relations with the United States after Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry announced there would be high-level meetings to improve relations between the two countries.... More
Another Brazilian minister has resigned from the government of interim President Michel Temer over fraud charges, less than a month after assuming office.... More
Argentinean President Mauricio Macri visited Colombia to meet with his counterpart, Juan Manuel Santos, and both emerged from the meeting pushing for neo-liberal trade agreements.... More
Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa announced Thursday that his government has renewed a state of emergency which was declared following a 7.8-magnitude earthquake on April 16th for another 30 days.... More
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives have introduced a bill to pull out security from Honduras in light of the recent murder of Indigenous environmentalist Berta Caceres.... More
The Mexican Army has deployed 300 soldiers to the prison where infamous drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is being held, on fears that he will try to escape for a third time, according to several news outlets.... More
Haiti’s interim President Jocelerme Privert has called on the National Assembly to make “a decision” in the face of his transitional government’s 120-day mandate expiring, while the United Nations warned of the risk of an impending “institutional vacuum” in the country if steps are not taken to manage looming uncertainty.... More
Russia’s ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has condemned the Western military alliance’s plans to deploy four battalions close to Russian borders, arguing that the moves will destabilize Europe.... More
Russia has warned against a call by U.S. State Department officials for strikes against the Syrian government, saying Moscow is opposed to a military solution.... More
The head of a major French union has vowed more street marches against a set of controversial labor reforms next week in defiance of threats by President Francois Hollande and his premier to ban anti-Paris protest rallies.... More
Scuffles have broken out between Japanese police and anti-US protesters who were out on the streets to voice their anger at the U.S. military presence on the Okinawa island.... More
Tens of thousands of Palestinians are without safe drinking water amid scorching heat and the fasting month of Ramadan after Israel cut water supplies to key areas in the West Bank.... More
Israel is planning to build a massive concrete wall which will extend both bellow and above the ground along the besieged Gaza Strip, an Israeli media report says.... More
Israel’s Office of the Prime Minister is still considering approval of a $540,000 bill for a five-day trip by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to New York, which included $1,750 for makeup, $1,600 for hair and $20,000 for moving hotel furniture.... More
The Organization of American States, the OAS, will meet next week to continue discussing the situation in Venezuela, as member states overwhelmingly support dialogue, not intervention.... More
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