Manila, January 7 (RHC) -- Indonesia's rescue team on Wednesday located the tail of the ill-fated AirAsia QZ8501 flight plane, marking a major breakthrough in the search work, Xinhua news agency reported.... More
Sanaa, January 7 (RHC-Xinhua) -- At least 50 people were killed and 20 others wounded early Wednesday when a car bomb went off outside the police academy in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, security officials and medics said.... More
Tegucigalpa, January 7 (teleSUR-RHC) –- A Honduran teenager and AIDS activist Keren Dunaway Gonzalez, who rose to prominence for her social work as a HIV-positive child, was kidnapped Tuesday in San Pedro Sula.... More
New York, January 7 (RHC)-- The U.S. pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson says it has begun human trials on a possible vaccine for the Ebola virus, which is ravaging West Africa. The U.S.-based company made the announcement on Tuesday, adding that the Oxford Vaccine Group at Britain's Oxford University is carrying out the Phase I testing.... More
Michoacan, January 7 (teleSUR-RHC) -- At least nine people were killed Tuesday after the Mexican army clashed with a self-defense group in an attempt to regain the Apatzingan municipal headquarters in the violence-plagued southern state of Michoacan.... More
Santiago de Chile, January 7 (PL-RHC) -- Chile responded in drastic terms to Bolivia regarding its demand to have access to the sea, when it stressed it will reject any mediation to solve this conflict.... More
Santiago de Chile, January 7 (PL-RHC) -- Argentina and Chile took another step to strengthen their already solid bilateral ties with the signing of an agreement that will increase connectivity between the two neighboring countries through a tunnel link.... More
Mexico City, January 6 (RHC-Xinhua) -- The Mexican National Attorney General's Office (PGR) has sent the wife of a jailed former mayor to federal prison for her role in a late-September attack that led to the mass abduction and probable massacre of 43 students.... More
Baghdad, January 6 (RHC)-- At least eight people have been killed in numerous terrorist attacks across the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad as the Takfiri-fueled violence continues in the county. According to police officials, four people lost their lives and 11 others were wounded in a bombing on a commercial street in the Shula district on Monday night. ... More
United Nations, January 6 (RHC)-- Syrian ambassador to the United Nations, Bashar Ja'afari, has filed a legal complaint against American and French officials that have illegally intruded into the country to visit militant-held towns. ... More
Bogotá, January 6 (RHC-NNN) – Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said on Monday that he had given instructions to his peace negotiators to “accelerate” the talks with the FARC guerrillas and he invited the National Liberation Army, or ELN, to also begin a formal dialogue with the government.... More
San Juan, January 6 (RHC-teleSUR) -- The National Boricua Human Rights Network and La Respuesta Magazine have organized a worldwide campaign to call for the liberation of Oscar Lopez Rivera.... More
Ramallah, January 6 (RHC)-- The health condition of several Palestinian prisoners held inside Israeli jails is failing, says the Palestinian Authority Department of Prisoners Affairs. Palestinian prisoners residing in Israeli jails are suffering from serious health problems, yet they are not receiving proper medical treatment, the department said in a statement on Monday, Palestine's Ma'an News Agency reported. ... More
Buenos Aires, January 6 (RHC-teleSUR) -- Argentina's economy minister has likened the so-called vulture funds against his country and neighboring Brazil to a strategy of war in an interview Sunday.... More
Monrovia, January 6 (RHC)-- The Liberian government is set to reopen schools in February, six months after they were shut due to an Ebola outbreak in the West African country. "We ask all schools to take the necessary measures for the reopening of schools next semester, which is February," the Education ministry said in a statement on Monday. ... More
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