La Paz, April 29 (PL-RHC)-- Bolivian President Evo Morales closed on Tuesday the electoral campaign for the run-off of regional elections in the departments of Tarija and Beni, with the intention to support their candidates.... More
Kathmandu, April 28 (RHC)-- The prime minister of Nepal has warned the death toll from Saturday’s devastating 7.8-magnitude earthquake could reach 10,000. The toll now stands at over 4,300 and is continuing to climb, with 8,000 injured. ... More
Bogota, April 28 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Colombia's Health Ministry is recommending the immediate suspension of aerial spraying of a cancer-causing herbicide used to eradicate cocaine crops, according to reports on Monday. ... More
Kathmandu, April 28 (RHC)-- At least 250 villagers are feared missing in a new mudslide and avalanche days after a deadly 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit the South Asian country of Nepal. On Tuesday, officials said the mudslide and avalanche took place in the isolated Ghodatabela village in rural regions near Gorkha district, about 100 kilometers northwest of the capital, Kathmandu, the epicenter of the April 25th earthquake. ... More
Mexico City, April 28 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Over a third of Mexican children up to the age of five suffer from malnutrition, World Vision warned on Monday. The aid organization released a report titled “The State of the Most Vulnerable Children and Young People in Mexico 2015,” in which 36 percent of the six million studied were not receiving enough food. ... More
Baghdad, April 28 (RHC)-- At least seven people have been killed in a car bomb attack in a southwestern neighborhood of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad. Iraqi officials confirmed Monday that at least seven people, all of them civilians, were killed after a car bomb went off in Baghdad’s Bayaa district. ... More
Quito, April 28 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Reforms to the Civil Code have been passed by Ecuador's National Assembly, raising the legal age of marriage to 18, specifying the criteria for marriage and divorce, and making civil marriages a legally recognized civil status in the country. ... More
Islamabad, April 28 (RHC)-- The death toll from heavy storms and flooding in northwest Pakistan has risen more than twofold compared to initial figures, according to local officials. ... More
Washington, April 28 (RHC)-- U.S. forces will gain access to at least eight military bases in the Philippines following a new bilateral agreement, reports say. The eight bases would give the U.S. military the most access since it evacuated forces from its Philippine bases in 1990s. ... More
Abuja, April 28 (RHC)-- Bodies of hundreds of people have been discovered in the northeastern Nigerian town of Damasak, with the Takfiri Boko Haram terrorist group singled out as the prime suspect in the apparent massacre. ... More
Mexico City, April 28 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Less than half of the population of Mexico has faith in the electoral process, with most of them believing it lacks transparency and includes vote buying by politicians, according to a new study by the country’s National Electoral Institute released Monday.... More
Sanaa, April 28 (RHC)-- Saudi Arabia's military campaign against Yemen continues as warplanes pound residential areas in the impoverished Arab country. In the latest airstrikes, which occurred sometime between late Monday and early Tuesday, one civilian was killed and several others were injured in the Sawfan neighborhood of capital Sanaa. ... More
New York, April 28 (RHC)-- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif have met on the sidelines of a UN anti-nuclear weapons conference in New York. The meeting was held on Monday at the residence of Iran's ambassador to the United Nations where the two are taking part in the 2015 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). ... More
Baltimore, April 28 (RHC)-- Street clashes between police and civil rights protesters have erupted in the U.S. city of Baltimore after the funeral of an African-American man who died last week in police custody after officers broke his spine. ... More
Brasilia, April 28 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Brazil’s controversial labor reforms are up for discussion on Tuesday as union representatives and political officials begin high-level discussions. ... More
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