Caracas, December 27 (RHC-teleSUR), -- As Venezuela is set to join the United Nations Security Council, President Nicolas Maduro has appointed his current foreign minister as the U.N. representative.... More
Birmingham, December 27 (RHC)-- Activists held a demonstration in the U.S. state of Alabama on Friday to demonstrate against ongoing police brutality against African Americans. The “Black Lives Matter” demonstration was organized in the city of Birmingham on Friday.... More
San Salvador, December 27 (RHC-teleSUR), -- A Salvadoran man who went missing 32 years ago during El Salvador's bloody civil war from 1980-92, has finally been reunited with his biological family, according to officials.... More
Bogotá, December 26 (RHC-teleSUR) -- Overtures toward peace for 2015 in Colombia include land reform and future participation in politics, as well as the release of a captive Colombian soldier.... More
Mexico City, December 26 (RHC-teleSUR) -- On Christmas Eve, in pouring rain, a few dozen Mexican parents and supporters met in front of the presidential complex at Los Pinos to reiterate their pledge to keep up the search for their children and to demand President Enrique Peña Nieto keep his promise to find them.... More
London, December 26 (RHC)-- Former British Foreign Office Minister Baroness Sayeeda Warsi says the United Kingdom must unilaterally recognize Palestine as an independent country. In an exclusive interview with English-language newspaper daily The Independent on Thursday, Warsi said London's policy of "Israeli appeasement" is not working, and called on British ministers to openly condemn Israeli settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank. ... More
Mexico City, December 26 (RHC-teleSUR) -- Dozens of family members of the missing Mexican students, organizations and supporters protested Thursday in front of the German embassy to demand that the European country stop selling weapons to Mexico.... More
Tel Aviv, December 26 (RHC)-- The Israeli regime has approved the construction of 243 new illegal settler units in the occupied Palestinian territories, despite mounting international criticism of Israeli settlement expansion. ... More
Bogotá, December 26 (RHC-teleSUR) -- The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) will release a Colombian soldier who they have been holding since December 19th, according to a statement released by the rebel group on Thursday.... More
Tel Aviv, December 26 (RHC)-- Israel has announced the arrest of two dozen high-ranking officials for involvement in an unprecedented graft case. Israeli police announced Thursday that it has detained 24 senior officials in a corruption probe which has mostly hit Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beiteinu party. ... More
Washington, December 26 (RHC)-- The fallout of a damning U.S. Congressional report condemning CIA torture techniques continues. While the controversial report is still at the center of debates in political circles around the world, new aspects of it are making their way to the media. ... More
Caracas, December 26 (RHC-teleSUR) -- The Venezuelan parliament votes Friday for new magistrates for the Supreme Court of Justice.... More
Colombo, December 26 (RHC)-- More than 650,000 people have been displaced after days of heavy rains triggered massive floods and landslides in Sri Lanka. The Disaster Management Center (DMC) stated on Thursday that the Batticaloa district, located about 300 kilometers east of the capital, Colombo, was the worst-affected area. The center added that the number of displaced people will likely rise. ... More
Port-au-Prince, December 26 (RHC-teleSUR) -- Haitian President Michel Martelly named veteran politician Evans Paul as prime minister Thursday, as the embattled president seeks to defuse a political crisis over long-delayed elections.... More
Mexico City, December 25 (RHC-teleSUR) -- The staff of the Human Rights Unit of the Attorney General of Mexico (PGR) suspended its search for the remaining 42 missing Ayotzinapa students, an official said Wednesday.... More
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