United Nations, Apr 1 (RHC) China assumes today the monthly leadership of the UN Security Council, having as main challenges ahead deterring the conflicts in Syria and Yemen, the crisis in Morocco and fresh denounces of sexual abuse by UN troops in the Central African Republic.... More


Havana, Apr 1 (RHC) The Movement of Solidarity with Cuba reaffirmed, in Havana's Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples, its defense of constitutionality and democracy in Brazil, threatened by a coup attempt.... More


On Thursday, Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva led a rally in Brasilia, the country's capital, to defend democracy and to reject impeachment proceedings in Congress against President Dilma Rousseff.... More


Russia promised Wednesday a “totally asymmetrical” response to NATO’s plan to deploy more troops to eastern Europe in order to counter what the alliance calls “Russian aggression,” Moscow’s envoy to NATO Aleksandr Grushko said in an interview.... More


The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States is holding the 17th Meeting of National Coordinators, as preamble to the 10th Conference of Foreign Ministers on April 1st.... More


The Pentagon has informed Congress that it intends to transfer up to a dozen more prisoners from the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, in that illegally occupied portion of Cuban territory.... More


In Argentina, the Senate lit the green light to the government bill to pay the vulture funds, despite acquiring a huge debt, thanks to the endorsements by Alianza Cambiemos, and opposition Frente para la Victoria.... More


Colombia's second largest rebel group, the National Liberation Army (ELN), has been removed from the most wanted list of the world's largest policing organization, the Interpol.... More


Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has said that he is willing to hold a presidential election if his people call for it.... More


On Wednesday, Austria moved to further tighten migrants' access to the country by placing tough new restrictions on asylum eligibility and making it easier to reject asylum seekers at the border. Some 14,000 people have already applied for asylum in Austria so far this year, according to the country's interior ministry.... More


The Regional Office of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, with offices in Chile, deplores the loss or waste of food in Latin America and the Caribbean, in volumes able to meet the needs of 36 million people.... More


Donald Trump would be the least popular general election candidate in U.S. history should he win the Republican nomination, according to a poll released Thursday.... More


Argentina's Minister for Production, Francisco Cabrera, confirmed a rise of tariffs by up to 500 percent, on water service, of 300 percent for gas, and from 70 to 150 percent on transport.... More


The President of Ecuador, Rafeal Correa, assured that US President Barack Obama, is exercising a policy of carrot and stick with his historic visit to Cuba on one hand, while on the other he extends the decree declaring Venezuela a national threat.... More


Legislators of Gran Polo Patriotico and several Venezuelan organizations deplored the Law on Amnesty and National Reconciliation, that opposition right wing, the majority force in Parliament, approved in second round.... More


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