Buenos Aires, January 7 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Argentina’s new government will reportedly undermine the National Archive of Memory, where important information on human rights violations is stored. ... More


Guatemala City, January 7 (RHC)-- In Guatemala, police have arrested and indicted 18 ex-military leaders on charges of committing crimes against humanity during the decades-long, U.S.-backed dirty war against Guatemala’s indigenous communities. ... More


San Salvador, January 7 (RHC)-- El Salvador has agreed to cooperate with Interpol in the arrest of 17 former military officers linked to the 1989 massacre of six Jesuit priests in the final years of the Central American country’s more than decade-long civil war.... More


San Salvador, January 7 (teleSUR-RHC)-- El Salvador recorded the highest homicide rate in Central America during 2015 with a 70 percent spike in violent deaths from the year before. ... More


Sanaa, January 7 (RHC)-- Iran has strongly condemned a “deliberate” air raid by Saudi warplanes on its embassy in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, which injured a number of security forces guarding the diplomatic mission. ... More


Tripoli, January 7 (RHC)-- At least 65 people have been killed in a truck bomb attack that struck a police training center in Libya’s northwestern city of Zliten. ... More


Jerusalem, January 7 (RHC)-- Israeli forces have demolished five dwellings belonging to Palestinian Bedouin families in the Abu Nuwar community east of Jerusalem, leaving more than two dozen people homeless. ... More


Sanaa, January 7 (RHC)-- Saudi warplanes have bombarded areas in Yemen’s Hajjah Province, where at least four people were killed. Yemen’s al-Masirah TV said Wednesday that the Saudi bombers hit residential areas in the border region of al-Morzaq. ... More


Athens, January 7 (RHC)-- People have taken to the streets of the capital of Greece against Saudi Arabia’s recent execution of a prominent Shia clergyman. ... More


Ankara, January 7 (RHC)-- Turkish police have confiscated over 1,200 fake life jackets destined to be sold to desperate asylum seekers trying to reach Europe through the Aegean Sea. ... More


London, January 7 (RHC)-- Leading British charities have slammed Prime Minister David Cameron's policies to deal with the migration crisis engulfing Europe saying his responses are too slow and clearly inadequate. ... More


Ramallah, January 7 (RHC)-- Israeli forces killed at least 178 Palestinians and injured 16,200 others in 2015.... More


Ottawa, January 7 (RHC)-- TransCanada Corporation has sued the U.S government over its rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline. On Wednesday, it filed a lawsuit in U.S. federal court alleging President Barack Obama’s rejection of the pipeline exceeded his power under the U.S. Constitution. ... More


Sacramento, January 7 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of California, Governor Jerry Brown has declared a state of emergency in a Los Angeles neighborhood where an uncontrollable methane gas leak has spewed more than 150 million pounds of methane into the atmosphere. The declaration comes 10 weeks after the leak was detected. ... More


La Paz January 6 (RHC)-- Bolivia's Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca has confirmed his government's willingness to resume diplomatic relations with Chile, towards finding a lasting, negotiated solution to the century-old maritime dispute.... More


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