Lima, March 3 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Hundreds of people participated in a vigil in the Peruvian capital of Lima Monday night to support legislation that would allow civil marriage between people of the same sex.... More
Ramallah, March 3 (RHC)-- Palestinians have begun a campaign to boycott Israeli goods sold in the occupied West Bank by means of confiscating and destroying the products. On Tuesday, campaign leader Abdullah Kmail said activists will visit shops and target products from six major Israeli food companies in the coming days. ... More
Mexico City, March 3 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Mexico’s Senate Justice Committee approved Arely Gomez as the nominee for the country’s new attorney general post on Monday, days after former law-enforcement chief, Jesus Murillo Karam, was moved to a different position. ... More
Kabul, March 3 (RHC)-- A car bomb has killed eight people, including security officials, in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand. Five civilians, two soldiers and a police officer were killed on Tuesday as a powerful bomb was detonated remotely in the Sangin district. ... More
Caracas, March 3 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Venezuela has launched a campaign against the environmental toll of hydraulic fracturing in the United States with a new exhibition entitled “F*cking Fracking.” ... More
Quito, March 3 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The World Organization for Animal Health has announced that Ecuador has successfully eradicated foot-and-mouth disease. ... More
Baghdad, March 3 (RHC)-- Iraqi forces and militias are continuing their largest offensive to date against the so-called Islamic State as they seek to retake the city of Tikrit. ... More
Washington, March 3 (RHC)-- The U.S. Justice Department has agreed to pay $25,000 to a college student who was detained at an airport for five hours in 2009 for having Arabic-language flashcards in his pocket. ... More
Caracas, March 3 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The level of extreme poverty in Venezuela dropped to a record low of 5.4 percent in 2015, Social Development Minister Hector Rodriguez said Monday. ... More
Ottawa, March 3 (RHC)-- Information disclosed by the former U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) contractor, Edward Snowden, shows that Canada’s electronic spy agency monitors file downloads all around the world. ... More
Baghdad, March 2 (RHC)-- Iraq has launched a new military operation to retake the city of Tikrit from the Islamic State militant group. ... More
Montevideo, March 2 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Tabaré Vazquez, who governed Uruguay from 2005 to 2010, began his second presidential term on Sunday. ... More
Tel Aviv, March 2 (RHC)-- Former Israeli ambassador to the United States Michael Oren has reprimanded Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for planning to address the US Congress about Iran. "I did say publicly that the prime minister could speak somewhere else, perhaps not intercede between the White House and the Congress or between Democrats and Republicans," Oren told CNN on Sunday. ... More
. Buenos Aires, March 2 (teleSUR-RHC)-- President Cristina Fernandez addressed the Argentine Congress on Sunday for the last time before the end of her term in office, highlighting the gains made during her administration. ... More
Maputo, March 2 (RHC)-- The death toll from a cholera epidemic in northern and western Mozambique has risen to 41 since the country was hit by widespread flooding in December.... More
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