Montevideo, January 15 (RHC-EFE) -– An effort via social networks to organize a massive send-off for Uruguay's President Jose Mujica when he leaves office next month has been canceled in deference to the head of state's wishes, organizers said Wednesday.... More
Washington, January 15 (RHC)-- The Republican-controlled House of Representatives has voted to undo major portions of President Obama's executive action on immigration. ... More
Tegucigalpa, January 15 (RHC-teleSUR) -- A group of armed men set fire to several houses in the Garifuna community of Nueva Armenia in Atlantida, Honduras this week according to the Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras.... More
New York, January 15 (RHC)-- A U.S. federal appeals court has heard from civil rights groups seeking to reinstate a lawsuit against the New York City Police Department's secret surveillance of Muslims and Arabs in neighboring New Jersey. ... More
Mexico City, January 14 (RHC-teleSUR) -- The former mayor of the Mexican city where the 43 Ayotzinapa teachers training college students were disappeared in September has been charged with kidnapping, the Attorney General's Office (PGR) announced Tuesday evening.... More
Washington, January 14 (RHC)-- The Pentagon has announced a plan to close down 15 military bases in Europe due to shrinking budgets. Pentagon officials said they were ending operations at an air base in Britain along with 14 other sites in Europe and handing them back to their home governments in a move to save $500 million annually. ... More
Caracas, January 14 (RHC-Xinhua) -- The Venezuelan government has turned down an offer from Chile to help resume talks between the ruling socialist party and the conservative opposition, whose ties were battered by last year's protests.... More
Nassau, January 14 (RHC-CMC) -– Bahamas says it intends to place on the agenda of the next Caribbean Community (CARICOM) heads of government meeting, the attacks by the Boko Haram militant Islamist group on Nigeria.... More
Paris, January 14 (RHC)-- France's parliament has overwhelmingly voted for the continuing of airstrikes against the ISIL Takfiri militants in Iraq as part of a U.S.-led coalition. During a Tuesday session, 488 French Lawmakers voted for the extension of the operations, with only one vote against and 13 abstentions. ... More
Mexico City, January 14 (RHC-teleSUR) -- Parents of the 43 Ayotzinapa Rural College students who went missing in September met once again with the Attorney General's Office to review progress in the case Tuesday.... More
Brussels, January 14 (RHC)-- As many as 5,000 European Union nationals have left the continent to join alongside terrorist militants fighting overseas, the head of the EU police agency, Europol, says. "We're talking about 3,000 to 5,000 EU nationals," Europol Director Rob Wainwright told British lawmakers on Tuesday, while referring to the number of foreign militants that had left from Europe. ... More
Mexico City, January 14 (RHC-teleSUR) -- Mexico’s attorney general’s office announced Tuesday that the investigation into the case of the missing 43 Ayotzinapa teachers training college students has gone cold.... More
Brussels, January 14 (RHC)-- The European Parliament has confirmed that the entry of illegal immigrants to the 28-nation bloc spiked in 2014. Dimitris Avramopoulos, the EUŽs Commissioner for Migration and Home Affairs, told the European Parliament: "In 2014, more than 276,000 migrants arrived in the EU, representing an increase of 138 percent compared to the previous year." ... More
Brasilia, January 14 (RHC-EFE) –- Brazil accepted a total of 2,320 refugees from other countries, mostly from Syria, in 2014, compared to 651 applications approved the previous year, the Justice Ministry said.... More
Maputo, January 14 (RHC)-- Flooding has claimed at least 40 lives in Mozambique and neighboring Malawi, where a state of emergency has been declared over almost a third of the country. According to reports: A group of 25 school children was swept away by torrents in Mozambique on Monday, and 18 others have been reported missing in the country, whose large eastern swathes have been swamped. ... More
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