Brasilia, December 23 (RHC-NNN) -- Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said her government will have to take "drastic" economic measures in 2015 to cut spending. However, the belt-tightening measures should not "affect social programs", Rousseff, whose second four-year term begins in January, told reporters.... More
Tel Aviv, December 23 (RHC)-- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has come under fire after a report revealed one out of every three Israeli children lives in poverty. The findings of a poverty survey published by Israeli Humanitarian Aid Organization, Latet, showed that there are more than two million 500 thousand poor people in Israel, including 932,000 children, Israel's Jerusalem Post newspaper reported on Monday. ... More
Guatemala City, December 23 (RHC-teleSUR) -- As several Mexican politicians continue to criticize the United States for deporting thousands of people each year, in 2014, Mexico’s deportations of Central Americans increased by 53.3 percent, according to Guatemalan officials.... More
New York, December 23 (RHC)-- Police officers across the United States are on high alert after two policemen in New York City were ambushed by a gunman on Saturday and shot dead. Police departments and their unions around the country warned rank-and-file police officers on Monday to wear bulletproof vests and avoid posting inflammatory statements on social media. ... More
Quito, December 23 (RHC-teleSUR) -- Over 4,000 trafficked archaeological pieces stolen from Ecuador have been returned to the country. A selection of the artifacts were presented to the press, and declarations made by authorities followed the ceremony.... More
La Paz, December 22 (RHC-PL) -- Bolivian journalists described the agreement between Cuba and the United States to restore relations as the most important event of 2014 in the international arena, but warned of the obstacles the U.S. congress will put in its path.... More
Washington, December 22 (RHC)-- Reports say that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has been using about thirty countries to help with its interrogation program. According to political commentator Anna O'Leary, the CIA hired two psychologists, James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, to design interrogation and detention protocols to be used in what they called black sites. ... More
Tel Aviv, December 22 (RHC)-- The Israeli parliament (Knesset) has approved a 3.3-million-dollar funding to build a tourist center at an illegal settlement in the occupied West Bank. According to a Sunday statement by the Knesset, the money will be injected into the project at the Barkan settlement in the north of the occupied Palestinian territories. ... More
Quito, December 22 (RHC-PL) -– Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa announced Sunday that he will make a State visit to China on January 6th and 7th, at the invitation of his counterpart in the Asian giant, Xi Jinping.... More
New York, December 22 (RHC)-- Protests against police brutality and racial profiling continued throughout the United States over the weekend, with actions in New York City, including a silent march in Harlem on Sunday. ... More
Vatican City, December 22 (PHC -Mercopress) -- Pope Francis has received Argentina’s new ambassador to the Vatican, Eduardo Valdes, during a ceremony at Vatican City.... More
New York, December 22 (RHC)-- The shooting deaths of two New York police officers by a deranged man has deepened an already widening rift between the city hall and police department. When New York Mayro Bill de Blasio and police commissioner William Bratton attended a mass for the two fallen officers at Saint Patrick's Cathedral in New York late Saturday, a number of officers turned their backs to the mayor. ... More
Caracas, December 22 (RHC-AVN) -- About 28,000 tons of food were seized in 2014 and 70% of this amount was seized just in the past four months through the implementation of special measures by the Venezuelan Government, said Minister for Defense Vladimir Padrino Lopez.... More
Madrid, December 22 (RHC)-- Thousands of people have staged a demonstration in Spain to protest against the government's austerity cuts squeezing the health sector. On Sunday, Spanish health care workers marched through the streets of Madrid to voice their opposition to the cuts imposed by current and previous governments. The protesters argued that the belt-tightening measures have put lives at risk. ... More
Mexico City, December 22 (RHC-EFE) -- Police seized five tons of marijuana and arrested a suspect in Playas de Rosarito, a city in the northwestern Mexican state of Baja California, officials said.... More
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