Former Uruguayan President Pepe Mujica

Jose Pepe Mujica, former president of Uruguay, called impeachment proceedings against Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff "regrettable and painful." ... More


State rail workers in France went on strike Tuesday over management plans to rewrite working conditions in preparation for Europe-wide deregulation. ... More


Luis Almagro, secretary-general of the Organization of American States

Luis Almagro, secretary-general of the Organization of American States, the OAS, has expressed his "satisfaction" as Venezuela's electoral authorities accepted the right-wing opposition's request to initiate the procedure for a recall referendum against President Nicolas Maduro.... More


Pedro Sanchez, Secretary General of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

The leader of Spain's main opposition party says he believes new elections are inevitable after a surprise eleventh-hour coalition proposal failed. ... More


Chilean Poet Pablo Neruda

Chile reburied Nobel prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda's remains Tuesday after exhuming them to determine whether he was assassinated by late-dictator Augusto Pinochet's regime, a mystery that still lingers.... More


The United States has deployed two F-22 Raptor 5G stealth fighter jets and a refueling aircraft to an airfield in Romania as part of NATO's support for Eastern European members against what it calls "Russian aggression."... More


A British charity says as many as 1.25 million people lived in a state of “destitution” across the United Kingdom last year. ... More


German airline Lufthansa was forced Tuesday to cancel 895 flights due to an airport strike action planned for Wednesday. ... More


Doctors without Borders says the European governments have failed to take proper actions to save the refugees struggling to reach Europe through dangerous sea journeys.... More


British hospitals are taking "military level" contingency plans as thousands of junior doctors in the UK have walked off their jobs over a contract dispute, marking the first all-out strike in the history of the National Health Service (NHS).... More


The Ecuadorian government has declared eight days of national mourning as the death toll from the massive earthquake that hit the South American country a week ago rose to more than 650.... More


The U.S. has admitted to more civilian casualties in its airstrikes against alleged Daesh (ISIL) positions inside Syria and Iraq between September and February, amid reports that the Pentagon has increased civilian death tolerance in the two countries. ... More


Israeli warplanes have repeatedly violated Syrian airspace and bombed targets inside the country which is fighting foreign-backed militants. Russian forces in Syria have fired at least twice on Israeli military aircraft, according to Israel's top-selling newspaper. ... More


The United Nations special envoy for Syria says some 400,000 people have lost their lives as a result of more than five years of foreign-sponsored conflict gripping the Arab country. ... More


Fresh skirmishes have erupted between French riot police and scores of demonstrators protesting against a controversial legislation proposed by the ruling center-right coalition government, which will bring about changes to the recruitment policy. ... More


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