Paris, October 19 (RHC)-- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has pledged to fully restore funding of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), in exchange for his country's re-election to the organization's executive board. ... More


Bogotá, October 19 (EFE-RHC)-- Government and Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, peace negotiators have reached an agreement covering joint efforts to find more than 25,000 people estimated to have disappeared during Colombia’s over 50-year-old internal conflict.... More


Bogotá, October 19 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The head of the Colombian guerrilla group National Liberation Army (ELN), Pablo Beltran, called on the government to begin open and public dialogue with the aim of negotiating peace with the rebel group, as peace talks in Havana, Cuba, with the FARC rebels lead to a final agreement before the March 23, 2016 deadline.... More


Bogotá, October 19 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Colombian authorities are investigating a small plane crash in a residential zone in Bogotá on Sunday, which killed five people and injured at least 15.... More


Brasilia, October 19 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Brazilian intellectuals and academics published Friday a manifesto condemning the procedure of impeachment initiated by radical sectors of the right-wing opposition in Parliament.... More


Panama City, October 19 (PL-RHC)-- Albrook, Multicentro and Multiplaza are some of the big commercial centers in this city that are visited by thousands of people every day, including tourists, who are looking for varied offers affordable to the most demanding buyer.... More


Lima, October 19 (CARIBBEAN NEWS-RHC)-- The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary General Irwin LaRocque continues to champion the cause for vulnerable states to receive concessional financing due to issues related to climate change.... More


Kabul, October 19 (RHC)-- A U.S. F-16 fighter jet has come under Taliban fire in eastern Afghanistan, military officials say. The advanced jet sustained significant damage in the attack which happened in Paktia Province, much of which is under control of the Taliban, officials told AFP.... More


Havana, October 17 (RHC-PL)-- "The Bayer company is one of the foreign companies with strongest ties to the development of Cuba, where the agricultural industry is key for the economy", Omar Fernandez, secretary general of the Chamber of Commerce said Friday. ... More


Moscow, October 17 (RHC)-- Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has criticized Washington’s refusal to meet a high-profile Russian delegation for talks on the crisis in Syria, and called it a “foolish behavior." Speaking in an interview with state-owned Rossiya 1 television channel on Friday, the Russian premier said that with such decisions and refusals to negotiate, the Americans were only revealing their weakness.... More


Caracas, Oct. 17 (teleSUR-RHC) Grassroots groups, aimed at boosting political mobilization in the Venezuelan state of Yaracuy, will activate their patrols supporting the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) on Sunday for a trial run of the forthcoming national parliamentary elections.... More


Milan, October 17 (RHC)-- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has called Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to express concern over violent clashes between Israel and Palestine, a US official says. Kerry, who is in Milan, Italy as part of a European tour, talked to Netanyahu on Friday to discuss "how best to end the recent wave of violence, and to offer U.S. support for efforts to restore calm as soon as possible," the State Department official said.... More


United Nations, October 17 (RHC)-- The Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations has called for the Security Council to intervene and put an end to the Israeli acts of aggression in the occupied territories.... More


Gaza City, October 17 (RHC)-- At least one Palestinian has lost his life and more than a dozen others sustained injuries after Israeli forces opened fire at a group of Palestinian protesters in the northeastern part of the blockaded Gaza Strip.... More


Kabul, October 17 (RHC)-- Doctors Without Borders says a U.S. tank has forced its way into the Afghan hospital destroyed by a U.S. airstrike, sparking concern the U.S. military may have destroyed evidence in a potential war crimes investigation. ... More


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