Caracas, May 18 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Venezuelan agricultural producers have a reason to celebrate as the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization recognized the country's advances in food security and food sovereignty. ... More


Mexico City, May 18 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Mexico's National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) told the U.N. it will work on the cases of enforced disappearances, as well as the prevention and punishment of further cases, the Mexican newspaper La Jornada reported on Sunday. ... More


Mexico City, May 18 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Mexican political candidate Hector Lopez Cruz from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) was killed in a drive-by shooting on Thursday, marking the latest assassination against a political candidate ahead of Mexico's June 7 mid-term elections. "Today with this cowardly murder, for the first time in recent memory, this act of violence has tainted the electoral process,” the PRI said in a written statement. ... More


Quito, May 18 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa announced on Saturday that the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) will provide assistance to the thousands of Asian immigrants stranded off the coast of Thailand. ... More


Santiago de Chile, May 18 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Over 50,000 people joined the annual March for Equality in the Chilean capital on Saturday. The march, organized by by the Movement of Integration and Sexual Liberation (Movilh) and the Movement for Sexual Diversity (Mums), ended in Santiago de Chile at the presidential palace of La Moneda, with speeches from various activists and political leaders. ... More


Quito, May 18 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Ecuador broke a Guinness World Record on Saturday by mobilizing more than 44,000 people to plant 647,250 trees across the country. ... More


fuerzas de EE.UU. ultiman a un líder de Estado Islámico en Siria

Washington, 16 may (PL) Las fuerzas especiales de Estados Unidos mataron a Abu Sayyaf, uno de los jefes del grupo extremista Estados Islámico (EI) en Siria, confirmó hoy el secretario de Defensa del país norteamericano, Ashton Carter.... More


Cairo, May 16 (RHC-AGENCIES) -– An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced ousted President Mohammed Morsi to death over his part in a mass prison break that took place during the 2011 uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak .... More


Caracas, May 16 (RHC-PL), -- Venezuelan authorities this week denounced several campaigns from Colombia and Spain to criminalize the South American nation.... More


Brussels, May 16, (RHC), – EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini will visit the Middle East next week for talks on the peace process with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Brussels said Frida... More


Sanaa, May 16 (RHC)-- The Saudi military has fired over a dozen rockets into Yemen in flagrant violation of a “cease-fire” declared by Riyadh itself amid its military aggression against the impoverished country.... More


A jury sentenced Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death Friday for the Boston Marathon bombing, sweeping aside pleas that he was just a "kid" who fell under the influence of his fanatical older brother. ... More


US commandos mounted a rare raid into eastern Syria overnight, killing a senior Islamic State commander and about a dozen others in a firefight, capturing his wife and rescuing a Yazidi woman held as a slave, the Pentagon said Saturday. ... More


United Nations, May 16 (RHC)-- The United Nations says more than 100,000 Burundians have been forced to leave their violence-stricken country, which recently witnessed a coup attempt.... More


Arequipa, May 16 (RHC-Eurionews), -- More than 30 people, many of them police officers, were injured in clashes in southern Peru on Friday. Violence broke out in the city of Arequipa, during a protest against plans for copper mining.... More


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