Port au Prince, December 22 (RHC-teleSUR)-- Haiti's electoral authority has postponed a presidential runoff vote scheduled for this weekend.... More
Damascus, December 21 (RHC)-- Syrian army units, backed by Hezbollah resistance fighters, have managed to liberate more strategic areas from the foreign-backed militants in the northern province of Aleppo. Syria's official news agency, SANA, quoted military sources as saying on Sunday that the army regained control of Khan Tuman and neighboring farms, and Qarassi village and the surrounding warehouses in the southern countryside of Aleppo province following heavy clashes with terrorists. ... More
Asunción, December 21 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Leaders of the South American sub-regional bloc MERCOSUR are in Paraguay’s capital Asunción for the 49th Summit of the Common Market of the South, which got underway on Monday morning.... More
Beirut, December 21 (RHC)-- The Israeli regime's military forces have fired artillery into Lebanon, one day after killing a veteran fighter of the Hebzollah resistance movement in Syria. The Israeli military claimed that the artillery fire came in response to the firing of three Katyusha rockets from Lebanon earlier on Sunday. ... More
Madrid, December 21 (RHC)-- Spain’s ruling Popular Party lost its parliamentary majority in elections Sunday, leaving Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy struggling to avoid becoming the third European leader to be ousted this year after pushing through unpopular austerity policies. ... More
Kabul, December 21 (RHC)-- In news from Afghanistan, a key district in the southern province of Helmand has reportedly fallen to the Taliban. Taliban militants overran the Sangin district after two days of fighting which reportedly killed more than 90 Afghan soldiers. ... More
United Nations, December 21 (RHC)-- The UN envoy for Yemen says he is still "optimistic" that a fully-respected ceasefire will come into force in Yemen, despite several violations of a seven-day truce already in effect in the war-torn country. ... More
Kabul, December 21 (RHC)-- At least five soldiers, including three U.S. troops, have been killed in an attack on a patrol near Bagram Air Base in the eastern Afghan province of Parwan. Officials said on Monday that an attacker on a motorbike rammed it into a joint U.S.-Afghan patrol near Bagram, killing five and injuring six others.... More
Athens, December 21 (RHC)-- Greece is set to recognize the state of Palestine in a parliamentary vote, thus joining dozens of other countries that accord recognition to the Palestinian state. A Greek government source said on Sunday that the vote on Palestine will be held on Tuesday. Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas will attend the voting session. ... More
Washington, December 12 (RHC)-- U.S. President Barack Obama has signed a $1.8 trillion spending and tax cut package after Congress passed the deal in a rare moment of bipartisan unity. ... More
Moscow, December 21 (RHC)-- Moscow's counterespionage services have exposed 320 foreign spies and agents operating in the country in 2015, says Russian President Vladimir Putin. ... More
Tel Aviv, December 21 (RHC)-- The Israeli interior minister and deputy premier has resigned over a sexual harassment scandal. Silvan Shalom, a top politician in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party, announced his decision in a statement released on Sunday, saying he had resigned "out of a feeling of having a mission and a desire to advance social and public issues of the utmost importance," the Israeli daily Haaretz reported. ... More
Bogotá, December 21 (PL-RHC)-- Colombia's Interior Minister Juan Fernando Cristo said peace agreements reached in Havana may be voted in Colombia by plebiscite early in the first half of next year.... More
Brasilia, December 21 (teleSUR-RHC)-- President Rousseff improved her odds of staying in office when she announced the replacement of pro-austerity Finance Minister Joaquim Levy with a member of her party’s left wing, the Senate leader of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party told Reuters on Sunday.... More
Mexico City, December 21 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Mexican drug traffickers are turning Mexico City into a war zone, a statement strengthened by reports that four buildings have been raided by heavily armed men. In three cases, they stormed buildings in plush neighborhoods of the capital claiming they were the new owners.... More
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