Caracas, October 7 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro rejected statements by Guyana’s new U.S. Ambassador Perry Holloway regarding the dispute between the neighboring territories over the Essequibo region.... More
Kabul, October 7 (RHC)-- Doctors Without Borders says Afghan and U.S. forces together decided to destroy its clinic in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan, reiterating that the fatal attack amounts to a war crime.... More
Moscow, October 7 (RHC)-- Spy agencies in the United States and the United Kingdom have been aggressively developing tools to hack mobile phones without their owners' knowledge, according to U.S. intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden.... More
Jerusalem, October 7 (RHC)-- Israeli forces have razed to the ground homes belonging to Palestinians in the East Jerusalem after Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the intensification of attacks against Palestinians.... More
London, October 7 (RHC)-- The U.S. and UK are undermining the measures by the UN to control the use of “killer robots” in an attempt to safeguard their investments, experts say. "A lot of money is going into development (of lethal autonomous weapons) and people will want a return on their investment," said Christof Heyns, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions in an interview published by the Guardian on Tuesday.... More
Amman, October 7 (RHC)-- Russia says it would consider an airborne operation against Daesh Takfiri terrorists in Iraq if it receives a formal request from the Arab country's authorities for conducting such a military campaign.... More
Madrid, October 7 (RHC)-- Spain has revoked the passport of the former managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Rodrigo Rato, as he faces charges of fraud. A Madrid judge had Rato’s passport confiscated after questioning him for nearly three hours about details of his personal wealth.... More
Guatemala City, October 7 (RHC)-- The death toll from a mudslide on the outskirts of the Guatemalan capital has climbed to 152, as rescue workers recover more bodies from a hillside. The chief of emergency services, Alejandro Maldonado, told reporters that at least 300 people were still unaccounted for. ... More
San Salvador, October 7 (teleSUR-RHC)-- El Salvador’s murder rate continues to soar, with gang violence blamed for what the government says is a 72 percent increase in murders in the first nine months of 2015 over the same period last year.... More
Mexico City, October 7 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Mexico’s Defense Secretary said late Monday that he will not allow national soldiers to be questioned by international investigators over the apparent abduction and killing of 43 students in Ayotzinapa last year.... More
Bogotá, October 7 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Political developments are heating up in Colombia as the country prepares for another election, with at least seven candidates killed and 30 municipalities uncovering cases of electoral fraud.... More
Lima, October 7 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The government of Peru announced on Tuesday that it has reached an agreement on changes to the controversial Las Bambas mining project after meeting with mayors whose constituents have raised concerns over its environmental impacts.... More
Montevideo, October 7 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The Uruguayan government reaffirmed Tuesday their commitment to make progress on the political and social recognition of Afro-Uruguayan people, who represent about 10 percent of the national population, while the greatest concentration of this ethnic group is located in Montevideo. ... More
Brasilia, October 7 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The government of Switzerland confirmed on Tuesday that it has frozen the bank accounts and assets of Eduardo Cunha, the speaker of Brazilian lower house of congress, for suspected money laundering that could link him to the corruption scandal surrounding the state-owned oil giant Petrobras. ... More
Damascus, October 6 (RHC)-- Russia's anti-terror campaign in Syria is not in violation of Syria's sovereignty as it is being conducted in coordination with the Damascus government, according to the Syrian foreign minister.... More
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