Tegucigalpa, March 18 (teleSUR-RHC) The Honduran Supreme Court Tuesday accepted former President Rafael Callejas’ proposal to allow presidential re-election, something which is currently prohibited.... More
Damascus, March 18 (RHC)-- A U.S. drone has been shot down by Syria’s military over the coastal province of Latakia near a stronghold of President Bashar al-Assad, Syrian state media say. "Syrian air defenses brought down a hostile U.S. surveillance aircraft over north Latakia," AFP quoted the official SANA news agency as saying on Tuesday.... More
Castries, March 18 (teleSUR-RHC) Saint Lucia is celebrating a record double-digit increase in the number of tourists staying on the island. It is good news for an island that is heavily dependent on the sector.... More
Moscow, March 17 (Xinhua) -- Russian Armed Forces have been put on high alert in its western and southern military districts, as well as in the western sector of Arctic, the Russian Defense Ministry said Tuesday.... More
Mexico City, March 18 (teleSUR-RHC) In a relatively brief welcome ceremony Tuesday, Mexico’s Supreme Court officially recognized the arrival of its newest and controversial justice, Eduardo Medina Mora, filling a seat that was vacated three months ago.... More
Quito, March 18 (teleSUR-RHC) Selling clothes, kitchenware, food and other goods outside Ecuador’s Institute for Social Security (IESS) are a handful of the country’s 3.7 million people working in the informal sector.... More
RAMALLAH, March 18 (Xinhua) -- A senior Palestinian official reiterated Wednesday after Israeli elections results that without establishing a Palestinian state with east Jerusalem as its capital, “there will be no peace in the Middle East” said Nabil Abu Rdineh, spokesman of the Palestinian presidency.... More
Buenos Aires, March 18 (teleSUR-RHC) Buenos Aires is preparing to elect its mayor, local legislators and ward representatives for the next four years. The candidates have been named ahead of the district’s first ever open, compulsory, and simultaneous primary elections on April 26.... More
Tunis, Tunisia (RHC), -- In Tunisia, gunmen opened fire Wednesday at a leading museum in the capital, Tunis, killing at least 19 people, including 17 foreign tourists, authorities said.... More
Franktfurt, March 18 (Xinhua)-- At least 88 pólice officers were injured and more than 500 people arrested after anti-austerity protests in Frankfurt turned into clashes between protesters and police on Wednesday, local media reported.... More
Washington, March 18 (RHC)-- The lawyer for a U.S. State Department contractor imprisoned for leaking classified information blasts the “profound double standard” in the leniency shown to former CIA director David Petraeus for similar conduct.... More
Port Vila, March 18 (RHC)-- In other news, the death toll from a Category 5 cyclone that tore through the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu has increased to 11, with thousands more displaced.... More
New Delhi, March 18 (Xinhua) -- The world's only solar-powered aircraft Solar Impulse-2 (Si2) will make a stopover in the Indian holy city Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh Wednesday as part of its first global flight, said organizers.... More
MELBOURNE, March 18 (Xinhua) -- A team of Australian researchers are a step closer to finding a vaccine to prevent malaria, after discovering patterns in the human immune system that helps fight the disease in its early stages.... More
SYDNEY, March 18 (Xinhua) -- Some of the world's top alcohol and drug experts gathered at a conference in Brisbane, Australia, on Wednesday to share ideas on how to address common problems associated with substance abuse.... More
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