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
Athens, December 21 (RHC)-- Greece is set to recognize the state of Palestine in a parliamentary vote, thus joining dozens of other countries that accord recognition to the Palestinian state. A Greek government source said on Sunday that the vote on Palestine will be held on Tuesday. Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas will attend the voting session. ... More
Washington, December 12 (RHC)-- U.S. President Barack Obama has signed a $1.8 trillion spending and tax cut package after Congress passed the deal in a rare moment of bipartisan unity. ... More
Moscow, December 21 (RHC)-- Moscow's counterespionage services have exposed 320 foreign spies and agents operating in the country in 2015, says Russian President Vladimir Putin. ... More
Tel Aviv, December 21 (RHC)-- The Israeli interior minister and deputy premier has resigned over a sexual harassment scandal. Silvan Shalom, a top politician in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party, announced his decision in a statement released on Sunday, saying he had resigned "out of a feeling of having a mission and a desire to advance social and public issues of the utmost importance," the Israeli daily Haaretz reported. ... More
Bogotá, December 21 (PL-RHC)-- Colombia's Interior Minister Juan Fernando Cristo said peace agreements reached in Havana may be voted in Colombia by plebiscite early in the first half of next year.... More
Brasilia, December 21 (teleSUR-RHC)-- President Rousseff improved her odds of staying in office when she announced the replacement of pro-austerity Finance Minister Joaquim Levy with a member of her party’s left wing, the Senate leader of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party told Reuters on Sunday.... More
Mexico City, December 21 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Mexican drug traffickers are turning Mexico City into a war zone, a statement strengthened by reports that four buildings have been raided by heavily armed men. In three cases, they stormed buildings in plush neighborhoods of the capital claiming they were the new owners.... More
Bogotá, December 21 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The Colombian government has accepted and publicly apologized for its role in a 1988 massacre in the town of Segovia, Antioquia, where right-wing paramilitaries opened fire on local residents and killed 43 people. ... More
Mexico City, December 21 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Mothers of disappeared migrants from Central America wrote a letter to Pope Francis urging him to promote new migration policy during his Mexico visit. ... More
Caracas, December 21 (PL-RHC)-- Non-governmental organizations backed on Sunday the Bolivarian Government in its position of rejecting the Amnesty Law proposed by the Venezuelan right-wing, which will soon be the new majority in the National Assembly.... More
Quito, December 21 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Some of Latin America's strongest left-wing states have seen a shift to the right recently, the result, says sociologist Francois Houtart, of a global economic crisis – and progressive governments not being anti-capitalist enough. ... More
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