San Antonio, April 16 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Texas, immigrant mothers held with their children in a private detention center have launched a new hunger strike and work stoppage to demand their release. ... More
Bogota, April 16 (teleSUR-RHC)-- President Juan Manuel Santos ordered on Wednesday Colombia’s armed forces to resume bombing campaigns against the camps of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). ... More
Mexico City, April 16 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Mexican federal authorities raised the alarm on Wednesday over a stolen container carrying radioactive material from the southern Mexican state of Tabasco. The container was stolen on Saturday and contains radioactive material which – if manipulated or taken out of its container – could be lethal to human beings. The material belonged to a medical laboratory and was stolen by unknown individuals. ... More
Mexico City, April 16 (teleSUR-RHC)-- A commission of day laborers and farmworkers from the San Quintin region of Baja California arrived in the Mexico City on Wednesday, demanding to meet with senior politicians to pressure agricultural companies into guaranteeing better salaries and working conditions. ... More
Lima, April 16 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Peru’s APRA party expelled Gerald Oropeza Lopez on Wednesday for alleged links to drug trafficking. ... More
Quito, April 16 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The revolutionary “The Law for Labor Justice and Recognition of Work from Home,” was passed by Ecuador's National Assembly on Tuesday. ... More
Baghdad, April 15 (RHC)-- At least 20 Iraqis have reportedly lost their lives in a wave of bomb attacks in and around the capital, Baghdad. According to Iraqi police sources, at least seven Iraqi individuals lost their lives in a car bomb attack in a commercial area in the town of Mahmoudiyah, about 30 kilometers (20 miles) south of Baghdad. ... More
Bogota, April 15 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Colombian authorities reported on Wednesday that a military convoy was attacked by unidentified gunmen the government is saying are FARC rebels with whom they've been in negotiation peace since 2012. ... More
Washington, April 15 (RHC)-- The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee has approved a measure that would give Congress a say in the final nuclear deal with Iran. The bill was passed by unanimous vote after U.S. President Barack Obama withdrew his opposition. ... More
Caracas, April 15 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced on Tuesday that his government may take diplomatic, economic, and other measures against the Spanish government of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, which urged Caracas to release right-wing opposition leaders, in prison for causing last years waves of violence. ... More
Rome, April 15 (RHC)-- Survivors of a capsized vessel say as many as 400 people may have drowned in the shipwreck after leaving Libya, while making the deadly journey across the Mediterranean. ... More
Berlin, April 15 (RHC)-- West Germany secretly helped and funded Israel with its development of nuclear weapons in the 1960s, according to a report from Berlin. The government of former German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer clandestinely channeled hundreds of millions of dollars into Israel's nuclear program, said a report published in the German daily Die Welt on Tuesday. ... More
Washington, April 15 (RHC)-- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has spent a second day urging lawmakers on Capitol Hill not to interfere in Iran nuclear talks, as senators prepare to vote on a bill that would give Congress authority to reject a final nuclear agreement with Tehran. ... More
New York, April 15 (RHC)-- Protests have been held from coast to coast in a day of action against police violence and racial profiling. ... More
Washington, April 15 (RHC)-- Protests are being held across the United States today in what organizers call the "largest-ever mobilization of underpaid workers." Fast-food workers in 230 cities are walking off the job as part of the "Fight for $15" campaign, a push for a $15-an-hour minimum wage. ... More
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