Georgetown, May 11 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Guyanese voters are heading to the polls on Monday to elect their country’s next presidential leader. Some 570,000 registered voters are casting their ballots in over 2,000 polling stations set up across the country, with voting opening 6:00 am and closing at 6:00 pm local time, according to the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM). ... More
Manila, May 11 (RHC)-- Thousands of people are being evacuated from the northern coast of the Philippines as a massive typhoon strikes the East Asian country, officials say. ... More
Tegucigalpa, May 11 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Honduran authorities have blocked a human rights defender from participating in a U.N. review of the state of human rights in Honduras taking place this weekend in Geneva, Switzerland, according to the Honduras-based Association of Judges for Democracy (AJD). ... More
Brussels, May 11 (RHC)-- A group of people riding bicycles have held a protest rally in the de facto capital of the European Union, Brussels, to mark the 67th anniversary of the Nakba (Catastrophe Day), when Israeli forces displaced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their land. ... More
Mexico City, May 11 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) has called for solidarity with Mexican farmworkers facing government repression in their ongoing struggle for dignified labor conditions in San Quintin, Baja California. ... More
Beijing, May 11 (RHC) –- Chinese Premier Li Keqiang will this month visit four South American countries, including Brazil, officials said today.... More
Bogota, May 11 (RHC) -– Colombia's Health Minister Alejandro Gaviria has called on the government to protect communities affected by a herbicide called glyphosate, the Bogotá Post reports.... More
Sanaa, May 9 (RHC)-- Saudi warplanes have targeted a school in the northwestern Yemeni province of Saada in the 44th day of the kingdom's aggression against the Yemeni people. According to local sources on Friday, the Saudi airstrikes pounded a school in al-Jamimah region of Saada. No report has yet been released on the casualties of the attack. ... More
Brasilia, May 9 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Threatened with being laid off, workers of Swedish Volvo car company started an indefinite strike on Friday in the Brazilian city of Curitiba. ... More
Kabul, May 9 (RHC)-- At least seven people have been killed in a U.S. assassination drone strike in Afghanistan's eastern province of Kunar, near the country's border with Pakistan. ... More
Moscow, May 9 (RHC)-- Russian President Vladimir Putin says that China's government has agreed to invest billions of dollars in the Russian economy. Putin made the remarks after a meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Moscow on Friday. President Xi Jinping had arrived in Moscow for celebrations marking the 70th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. ... More
Athens, May 9 (RHC)-- Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has expressed hope that his cash-strapped country will reach an agreement with the international creditors over its bailout program. Tsipras said in parliament on Friday that Greece's government "has proved that it's doing everything it can to reach an honest and mutually-beneficial deal with its creditors." The Greek premier also added that "there's no technical issue anymore for reaching this deal, there's only a matter of political will." ... More
Portland, May 9 (RHC)-- The footwear giant Nike has announced it will create 10,000 jobs in the United States if the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, or TPP, is approved. ... More
Washington, May 9 (RHC)-- The U.S. has begun training Syrian rebel fighters as part of a program aimed at confronting the self-proclaimed Islamic State. A group of around 90 rebels are training at a base in Jordan, to be followed by similar efforts in Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. ... More
Washington, May 9 (RHC)-- A U.S. federal appeals court has ruled the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of millions of Americans’ phone records is illegal. The program was exposed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden; the ACLU filed its lawsuit based largely on Snowden’s revelations. ... More
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