Quito, April 25 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa denounced efforts by the opposition in his country to copy the strategy of the opposition in Venezuela and try to destabilize his government and the country. ... More
Ramallah, April 25 (RHC)-- A Palestinian teenager has been shot dead by Israeli border guards at a checkpoint in the occupied East Jerusalem. Israeli security forces killed the 16-year-old Palestinian boy on Friday night while he was walking towards the al-Zaim checkpoint with his family, claiming that he intended to stab an Israeli officer. ... More
Tegucigalpa, April 25 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Manuel Zelaya, the leftist president of Honduras ousted in a 2009 coup, said on Friday that his country is living under a “permanent coup” regime. The former president made the comment in response to a decision by the Honduran high court to modify the constitution and allow for the re-election of presidents. The move to eliminate term limits for the office of the president was promoted by members of the ruling National Party of the current president, Juan Orlando Hernandez. ... More
Dhaka, April 25 (RHC)-- Hundreds of Bangladeshi garment workers have staged a protest just outside of the capital Dhaka demanding justice for the victims of an apparel factory that collapsed two years ago. Protesters, including trade union members, relatives of the victims, and hundreds of survivors, gathered around the disaster site to commemorate the second anniversary of the Rana Plaza tragedy on Friday. ... More
Yerevan, April 25 (RHC)-- Armenia has held a memorial ceremony to mark the centenary of the massacre of a great number of Armenians during the World War I. Friday's event saw dignitaries and world leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and his French counterpart, Francois Hollande, gather at the Tsitsernakaberd memorial complex in the Armenian capital, Yerevan. ... More
Niamey, April 25 (RHC)-- Niger's health minister says the death toll from the meningitis epidemic that broke out in the West African country in January has reached nearly 130. Mango Aghali said in a statement on Friday: "There are a total of 1,150 cases and unfortunately 129 deaths." ... More
Washington, April 25 (RHC)-- The Pentagon cannot account for $1.3 billion of an emergency funding which was directly routed to U.S. military officers in Afghanistan for critical reconstruction projects, an internal report reveals. ... More
United Nations, April 25 (RHC)-- The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has called on the British government to take necessary measures against the tabloid newspapers that incite racial hatred. ... More
La Paz, April 25 (teleSUR-RHC)-- A group of Bolivian, European and U.S. scientists discovered at least 10,000 footprints of dinosaurs on Thursday, making the Andean country the owner of the largest paleontological areas in the world ever discovered. ... More
Santiago de Chile, April 25 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Chilean environmental authorities announced on Thursday that they will file 10 new charges against Canadian mining company Barrick Gold for failing to follow environmental requirements at its Pascua Lama gold and silver mine. ... More
Brasilia, April 25 (PL-RHC)-- South Korean President Park Geun-hye began an official visit to Brazil, where she will hold talks with his counterpart in this South American country, Dilma Rousseff, and will sign several agreements to strengthen bilateral relations.... More
Caracas, April 25 (PL-RHC)-- Venezuela's Electoral Commission is making progress in the process of defining the number of deputies that will be elected by each states to occupy the 167 seats in Parliament. In view of the upcoming National Assembly elections, whose date has yet to be specified, the Commission is finishing up the details of the process, a Commission's statement says.... More
Quito, April 25 (PL-RHC) The South American News Agency new website, initiative of the Latin American Union of News Agencies (ULAN), is a proposal to add the views of each Latin American country, and make them visible to the world.... More
Sanaa, April 24 (RHC)-- Saudi warplanes have reportedly carried out fresh aerial assaults on Yemen, bombarding several places across the impoverished country. According to local media reports on Friday, Saudi fighter jets pounded two districts in Yemen’s southern port city of Aden. There are no immediate reports of casualties in the attacks. ... More
Montevideo, April 24 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Former Uruguayan president Jose Mujica offered his help as a mediator in the Colombia peace talks in Havana on Thursday. Mujica said he will travel soon to Cuba to assist in the talks between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forced of Colombia (FARC). Specifically, Mujica said he wanted to talk to the FARC command. ... More
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