Caracas, September 18 (teleSUR-RHC)-- A Venezuelan air force jet has crashed after it was deployed to the northwestern region of the country to pursue an aircraft that had been detected by radars entering Venezuelan airspace, the ministry of defense reported on Thursday. ... More
Quito, September 18 (RHC)-- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his Colombian counterpart, Juan Manuel Santos, are set to meet on Monday in Quito to discuss the month-long border dispute between both countries.... More
Mexico City, September 18 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Some 7.4 million people and 2.2 million homes in Mexico City are at high risk in case of a powerful earthquake, local officials said ahead of the 30th anniversary of the deadly quakes of September 19th and 20th which left over 10,000 people dead.... More
Mexico City, Sept 18 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Acapulco is today Mexico's most dangerous city with a murder rate of 107 per 100,000 and the death toll keeps rising as police attended Thursday an emergency call in the tourist port city after shots were heard and upon arrival to the scene of the crime they found one person executed and a mass grave with seven bodies.... More
Bogotá, September 18 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Colombia’s largest guerrilla group said on Thursday it was ready to “address and discuss” steps that will allow the group to become a legal political movement.... More
Buenos Aires, September 18 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Argentine opposition Mayor Mauricio Macri, who is also running for president, ordered on Thursday the closure of a television channel spearheading an intense investigation of the mayor as he is implicated in an unfolding corruption scandal. ... More
Brasilia, September 18 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The Supreme Court in Brazil ruled on Thursday in favor of banning businesses from financing electoral campaigns and political parties amid a major corruption scandal that alleges corporations used this mechanism to obtain lucrative contracts with the state-owned oil company Petrobras. ... More
Lima, September 18 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Peruvian lawmakers on Wednesday voted in a plenary session to approve the final report issued by the special commission that investigated the alleged corruption charges involving various officials linked to President Ollanta Humala's administration, including his wife.... More
Baghdad, September 17 (RHC)-- At least 21 Iraqi people have been killed in two bomb explosions in mainly Shia neighborhoods of central Baghdad, a local media report says. ... More
Santiago de Chile, September 17 (RHC)-- In Chile, one million people have been evacuated and at least five people have been killed after a powerful 8.4-magnitude earthquake shook northern and central Chile Wednesday evening.... More
Budapest, September 17 (RHC)-- In news from Europe, the Hungarian military has begun sending Humvees mounted with guns toward its border with Serbia, as the Hungarian police detained dozens of refugees and fired tear gas and water cannons at hundreds more. ... More
Zagreb, September 17 (RHC)-- Nearly 4,000 refugees, mostly from crisis-hit Syria, have entered Croatia from Serbia in the past 24 hours following a move by Hungary to close its borders to them. ... More
Sanaa, September 17 (RHC)-- At least ten people have been killed and many more wounded in Saudi Arabia's latest airstrike on Yemen. The civilians were killed as Saudi warplanes bombed a residential neighborhood in Yemen's capital city Sanaa early on Thursday morning. ... More
Ouagadougou, September 17 (RHC)-- In news from Africa, Burkina Faso’s military has seized power in an apparent coup, after the presidential guard detained interim President Michel Kafando and dissolved the transitional government on Wednesday. ... More
Damascus, September 17 (RHC)-- The United Nations' special envoy to Syria is set to travel to the Arab country to hold discussions with the Syrian foreign minister concerning a peace plan aimed at helping resolve the ongoing deadly crisis there, a Syrian official says. ... More
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