Havana, February 9 (RHC-Telesur)-- As the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) approaches a final peace deal with the government of President Juan Manuel Santos, the group’s leaders have said that peace in Colombia will be “incomplete” without the participation of the country's second largest rebel group –the National Liberation Army (ELN) in the peace process.... More
Kabul, February 9 (RHC)-- A bomb explosion has rocked an area in southeastern Afghanistan, killing at least six civilians and injuring nine others. According to local Afghan officials, the casualties were caused after the blast occurred in front of a bakery in Paktika Province on Monday. ... More
Goma, February 9 (RHC)-- More than a dozen people have lost their lives in clashes between armed groups in the troubled eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where ethnic tensions have surged in recent weeks. ... More
Brussels, February 9 (RHC)-- A newly leaked report has revealed that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had threatened European Union leaders with a flood of refugees unless Ankara was offered better funding to deal with the ongoing crisis. ... More
London, February 9 (RHC)-- The British media have reported that the government of Prime Minister David Cameron plans to send more than 1,600 troops to Jordan for a major logistics war game. The purpose of the game will be to exercise an Iraq invasion-scale operation for the first time in more than a decade. ... More
Moscow, February 9 (RHC)-- Russia has put its troops on combat alert across the country’s southwestern territories amid massive military drills meant to test the readiness of the military. ... More
Tel Aviv, February 9 (RHC)-- Israel has accused UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon of promoting 'terror' after he defended the Palestinian uprising as a natural response to the Tel Aviv regime's occupation of their lands. In a letter to Ban on Monday, Israel's Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon urged Ban to withdraw the comments he made in last month's address to the UN Security Council. ... More
Madrid, February 9 (RHC)-- Spain's Princess Cristina de Borbon is in court over charges ranging from tax fraud to an embezzlement scam that also involves her husband, in a criminal case badly damaging the image of the Spanish royal family. Fifty-year-old Cristina, the sister of King Felipe VI, arrived for the trial in a court in Palma de Mallorca on Tuesday. ... More
Port-Au-Prince, February 8 (RHC)-- Haitian Prime Minister Evans Pol has called for unity among all political forces to facilitate the transition of power and the formation of a new government, as President Michel Martelly's term concluded on Sunday, February 7th. ... More
New York, February 8 (RHC)-- The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) is currently analyzing details to set up a political mission to verify the definitive ceasefire in Colombia, once it is implemented by the government of President Juan Manuel Santos and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People's Army (FARC-EP).... More
Izmir, February 8 (RHC)-- At least 35 refugees have drowned in two separate accidents in the Aegean Sea as they attempted to cross from Turkey to Greece, media reports say. ... More
Damascus, February 8 (RHC)-- Syrian government troops have killed over 300 members of the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front group during clashes in the northwestern Aleppo province. ... More
Damascus, February 8 (RHC)-- Syrian forces have liberated a key village in the northern province of Latakia, dealing another blow to militants operating along the Turkish border. Syrian media says that the military and allied volunteer fighters seized control over Aliyah in the mountainous region of the northern countryside of Latakia. ... More
Tel Aviv, February 8 (RHC)-- An Israeli minister says Egyptian authorities have flooded the underground tunnels connecting the besieged Gaza Strip to the North African country at the request of the Tel Aviv regime. Speaking at a seminar in Beersheba over the weekend, Yuval Steinitz, the Israeli minister of energy and water resources, said Cairo pumped water into the tunnels at the order of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Turkey’s official Anadolu news agency reported. He added that “security coordination” between Cairo and Tel Aviv is at its best. ... More
Washington, February 8 (RHC)-- The U.S. Defense Department has been forced to release a series of photographs showing injuries inflicted on detainees by American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.... More
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