Asunción, December 22 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Bolivian President Evo Morales has called on member countries of MERSOCUR to join together to ward off the destabilizing effects of the world financial crisis.... More


Brasilia, December 22 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Brazilian authorities said Monday they had discovered a small submarine packed full of cocaine.... More


Caracas, December 22 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Venezuelan authorities have launched a media campaign aim to mitigate the effects of El Niño, which is the cause of severe problems throughout South America including drought and water scarcity in northern Venezuela.... More


Buenos Aires, December 22 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Argentina will restart talks in January with holdout creditors commonly referred to as the vulture funds, a negotiator said Monday.... More


Managua, December 22 (RHC-teleSUR) -- The Nicaraguan government said Monday it is prepared to admit defeat and open dialogue with Costa Rican officials over a long-standing border dispute. ... More


Brasilia, December 22 (RHC-teleSUR)-- The leader of Brazil's Chamber of Deputies Eduardo Cunha said Monday that the impeachment process against President Dilma Rousseff will take place in 2016, as there are still some areas that need clarification. ... More


Panama City, December 22 (RHC-teleSUR)-- Former Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli, who served as president from 2009 to 2014, has been accused of embezzlement, insider trading and using public funds to spy on his rivals.... More


Port au Prince, December 22 (RHC-teleSUR)-- Haiti's electoral authority has postponed a presidential runoff vote scheduled for this weekend.... More


Damascus, December 21 (RHC)-- Syrian army units, backed by Hezbollah resistance fighters, have managed to liberate more strategic areas from the foreign-backed militants in the northern province of Aleppo. Syria's official news agency, SANA, quoted military sources as saying on Sunday that the army regained control of Khan Tuman and neighboring farms, and Qarassi village and the surrounding warehouses in the southern countryside of Aleppo province following heavy clashes with terrorists. ... More


Asunción, December 21 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Leaders of the South American sub-regional bloc MERCOSUR are in Paraguay’s capital Asunción for the 49th Summit of the Common Market of the South, which got underway on Monday morning.... More


Beirut, December 21 (RHC)-- The Israeli regime's military forces have fired artillery into Lebanon, one day after killing a veteran fighter of the Hebzollah resistance movement in Syria. The Israeli military claimed that the artillery fire came in response to the firing of three Katyusha rockets from Lebanon earlier on Sunday. ... More


Madrid, December 21 (RHC)-- Spain’s ruling Popular Party lost its parliamentary majority in elections Sunday, leaving Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy struggling to avoid becoming the third European leader to be ousted this year after pushing through unpopular austerity policies. ... More


Kabul, December 21 (RHC)-- In news from Afghanistan, a key district in the southern province of Helmand has reportedly fallen to the Taliban. Taliban militants overran the Sangin district after two days of fighting which reportedly killed more than 90 Afghan soldiers. ... More


United Nations, December 21 (RHC)-- The UN envoy for Yemen says he is still "optimistic" that a fully-respected ceasefire will come into force in Yemen, despite several violations of a seven-day truce already in effect in the war-torn country. ... More


Kabul, December 21 (RHC)-- At least five soldiers, including three U.S. troops, have been killed in an attack on a patrol near Bagram Air Base in the eastern Afghan province of Parwan. Officials said on Monday that an attacker on a motorbike rammed it into a joint U.S.-Afghan patrol near Bagram, killing five and injuring six others.... More


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