Lima, May 15 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Peruvian judicial authorities granted the request from human rights groups to re-open the case of thousands of rural indigenous women forcefully sterilized under Alberto Fujimori dictatorship in the 1990s. ... More
Geneva, May 14 (RHC)-- The United States has been sharply criticized over its human rights record by numerous countries at the United Nations Office at Geneva. Member nations blasted the U.S. at the United Nations’ Human Rights Council, rebuking the country over police brutality, racial injustice, detention of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay and the continued use of the death penalty. ... More
San Jose, May 14 ( teleSUR-RHC)-- Costa Rican agriculture is likely to experience major damages this year as a result of extreme weather expected to be brought on by El Niño, the country's Meteorological Institute announced Wednesday. ... More
The Vatican, May 14 (RHC)-- The Vatican will officially recognize the state of Palestine in a new treaty. The treaty concerns the Vatican’s interests in the Occupied Territories. ... More
New York, May 14 (RHC)-- Prisoners with mental disabilities across the United States experience unnecessary, excessive, and even malicious force by prison staff, according to a new report by an international human rights organization. ... More
Berlin, May 14 (RHC)-- German Chancellor Angela Markel has defended the sale of modern weaponry by Germany to Israel, saying Berlin has an “obligation” to back the Tel Aviv regime. Merkel told students at a Berlin school on Tuesday that Germany “has a special obligation to support Israel,” adding that Germany sells weapons to Israel because “we believe that Israel must defend itself.” ... More
Manila, May 14 (RHC)-- At least 72 people have been killed by a fire that gutted a factory in a suburb of the Philippines capital city of Manila, officials say. According to reports, the blaze broke out as sparks from welding work set fire to flammable chemicals near the slipper factory, local officials said on Wednesday. ... More
Philadelphia, May 14 (RHC)-- Safety officials say an Amtrak train that derailed in Philadelphia Tuesday night was traveling at twice the authorized speed. The engineer applied the emergency brakes when the train hit 106 miles per hour just moments before the train went off its tracks. ... More
New York, May 14 (RHC)-- Five of the world’s top banks are reportedly set to plead guilty to a number of fraud and antitrust charges in the United States. ... More
Washington, May 14 (RHC)-- The U.S. House of Representatives has overwhelmingly approved a measure that would rein in a key NSA surveillance tactic exposed by Edward Snowden. ... More
Kabul, May 14 (RHC)-- In Afghanistan, at least 14 people have been killed after gunmen attacked a guesthouse in the capital Kabul. ... More
Bujumbura, May 14 (RHC)-- The head of Burundi’s armed forces says an attempted coup against President Pierre Nkurunziza has been thwarted. An army general claimed yesterday to have ousted the president after more than two weeks of protests. ... More
Bogota, May 14 ( teleSUR-RHC)-- Colombia’s FARC leftist guerrilla organization stressed in a statement on Wednesday the importance of Colombia’s smaller rebel group ELN being included in the ongoing peace process with the government that seeks to bring an end to over 50 years of armed conflict in the country. "We believe that not only for us as a revolutionary movement is it urgent and necessary that the ELN is brought into the peace talks,” said FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) leader Rodrigo Londoño Echeverri, also known as Timoleon Jimenez or Timochenko, in an on-line statement. ... More
Mexico, May 14 ( teleSUR-RHC)-- Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office has been ordered to hand over a public report of the investigation into last September’s enforced disappearance of 43 Ayotzinapa students in Iguala, Guerrero, including the statements of 36 soldiers who were interviewed during the investigation, Mexican newspaper Reforma reported Wednesday. ... More
Bogota, May 14 ( teleSUR-RHC)-- At least 15 mine workers were trapped in a gold mine in northwest Colombia on Wednesday after it flooded and collapsed. Emergency rescue teams worked into the night attempting to free the workers trapped dozens of feets underground. The workers are feared dead, given the difficulty of the rescue. ... More
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