Guatemala City, January 8 (RHC-teleSUR)-- Guatemalan courts have ruled that lowering the minimum wage – which would force people to work for less than a living wage – is unconstitutional. ... More


Islamabad, January 8 (RHC)-- People have taken to the streets of the Pakistani capital city of Islamabad to vent their anger at Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir's visit to the country. ... More


Cartagena, January 8 (RHC-teleSUR) -- Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos announced the creation of a permanent delegation of government negotiators at the country's peace talks in Havana, saying “we will not rise” until a final peace deal is reached. ... More


Buenos Aires, January 8 (RHC-teleSUR) -- Police officers in Argentina violently attacked public workers while they were protesting in La Plata City, capital of the Province of Buenos Aires.... More


Tripoli, January 8 (RHC)-- A bomb attack has left six people dead, including a 16-month-old infant, in a northern Libyan town. ... More


Mexico City, January 8 (RHC)-- In Mexico, new data shows life expectancy rates have fallen over the last 10 years, as the rampant violence from the U.S.-backed war on drugs has outweighed a decade’s worth of public health improvements. ... More


Geneva, January 8 (RHC)-- The UN refugee agency has criticized Denmark for a series of new measures it adopted to stem the flow of refugees into the country, with its new head urging the Europeans to facilitate the refugees' take-in. ... More


Caracas, January 7 (RHC)-- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has announced a cabinet reshuffle, as well as the creation of several new ministerial departments as part of an “economic counter-offensive.”... More


Buenos Aires, January 7 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Argentina’s new government will reportedly undermine the National Archive of Memory, where important information on human rights violations is stored. ... More


Guatemala City, January 7 (RHC)-- In Guatemala, police have arrested and indicted 18 ex-military leaders on charges of committing crimes against humanity during the decades-long, U.S.-backed dirty war against Guatemala’s indigenous communities. ... More


San Salvador, January 7 (RHC)-- El Salvador has agreed to cooperate with Interpol in the arrest of 17 former military officers linked to the 1989 massacre of six Jesuit priests in the final years of the Central American country’s more than decade-long civil war.... More


San Salvador, January 7 (teleSUR-RHC)-- El Salvador recorded the highest homicide rate in Central America during 2015 with a 70 percent spike in violent deaths from the year before. ... More


Sanaa, January 7 (RHC)-- Iran has strongly condemned a “deliberate” air raid by Saudi warplanes on its embassy in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, which injured a number of security forces guarding the diplomatic mission. ... More


Tripoli, January 7 (RHC)-- At least 65 people have been killed in a truck bomb attack that struck a police training center in Libya’s northwestern city of Zliten. ... More


Jerusalem, January 7 (RHC)-- Israeli forces have demolished five dwellings belonging to Palestinian Bedouin families in the Abu Nuwar community east of Jerusalem, leaving more than two dozen people homeless. ... More


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