Santiago de Chile, April 10 (teleSUR-RHC) Chile has started harvesting its first medical marijuana crop on Tuesday, while the drug remains prohibited for its recreational consumption. ... More
Buenos Aires, April 10 (teleSUR-RHC) The Argentine Foreign Ministry summoned the country’s British ambassador on Thursday to “demand explanations amid the silence” from the British government over revelations of massive digital spying against Argentina on the Falklands/Malvinas Islands issue. ... More
Bogota, April 9 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Peace advocates rallied across Colombia on Thursday amid ongoing peace talks between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels.... More
Panama City, April 9 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Some 2,000 representatives of social movements from across the hemisphere met on Thursday in Panama to discuss issues ranging from U.S. sanctions on Venezuela to Puerto Rican independence. ... More
United Nations, April 9 (RHC)-- The United Nations has called for the opening of a humanitarian corridor in the Yarmouk refugee camp in southwestern Syria. The Palestinian refugee camp remains under pressure as fighting continues in the civilian area.... More
Montevideo, April 09 (teleSUR-RHC) Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez said on Wednesday that the United States should pay for the costs of the six former prisoners of Guantanamo Bay prison, which Uruguay has received as refugees. ... More
Ramallah, April 9 (RHC)-- The Palestinian Health Ministry has warned of a humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip if Israel does not lift its crippling siege on the region. The ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra told reporters that the health situation was worsening in the impoverished coastal enclave due to Israel’s siege.... More
Islamabad, April 9 (Xinhua)-- Senior Pakistani Taliban leaders in a tribal region Thursday declared allegiance to the Islamic State, or Daesh, at a time when it is under attack in their former strongholds.... More
Berlin, April 9 (Xinhua) -- The Islamic State (IS) group has lost control over large oil fields in Iraq, which could deprive the terrorist group of an important income source, a German newspaper reported on Thursday.... More
Brussels, April 9 (Xinhua) -- The European Union and its member states kept the place as the world's largest aid donor in 2014, according to a press release issued by the European Commission here on Wednesday.... More
Munich, April 9 (Xinhua) -- The eurozone economy is expected to recover slightly in 2015 based on the assumption that the agreement between Greece and its creditors in the eurozone holds firm, three think tanks said on Wednesday in a joint forecast report.... More
TEHRAN, April 9 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei stressed on Thursday that the world powers should remove all sanctions against the country on the same day as the potential nuclear deal is signed, according to the leader's official website.... More
BEIJING, April 9 (Xinhua) -- Malta and Kyrgyzstan have been approved as prospective founding members of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), China's Ministry of Finance said on Thursday.... More
ANKARA, April 9 (Xinhua) -- Coalition forces against the Islamic State (IS) militant group formed a working group to stem flow of foreign fighters into Syria and Iraq in a meeting in the Turkish city of Istanbul, a Turkish official said on Thursday.... More
Charleston, April 9 (RHC)-- A white police officer in the U.S. state of South Carolina has been charged with murder after a video showed him shooting an apparently unarmed African-American man who was running away. ... More
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