Washington, January 27 (RHC)-- A small drone flying at a low altitude crashed into the White House complex early on Monday, prompting officials to declare a security lockdown. The U.S. Secret Service said in a statement that President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle were not at the White House at the time of the incident. ... More
Buenos Aires, January 27 (RHC-EFE) -– The Argentinian government again dismissed the late prosecutor Alberto Nisman’s accusation that President Cristina Fernandez provided cover for the suspected Iranian perpetrators of the 1994 attack on the Jewish organization AMIA, and said it will end up “in the garbage can.”... More
Athens, January 27 (RHC)-- The leader of Greece’s anti-austerity Syriza party has been sworn in as the country's new prime minister after forming a coalition government with the right-wing nationalist Independent Greeks (ANEL) party. ... More
Mexico City, January 27 (RHC-teleSUR) -- Once again, the parents of the disappeared 43 students from the Ayotzinapa teacher's training college lead several marches and actions in the Mexican capital to mark four months since their children were attacked and forcibly disappeared by police in Iguala, Guerrero in late September.... More
Berlin, January 27 (RHC)-- Officials in the European Union have warned Greece’s new leaders that they must stick to the country’s previous financial commitments. A spokesman for German chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday took a tough line at Greece’s new leaders, urging them to make efforts to improve the country’s economic situation. ... More
Caracas, January 27 (RHC-teleSUR) -- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro addressed the nation Monday night reiterating the government’s commitment to overcome the international right wing’s economic and political destabilization plans.... More
Tel Aviv, January 27 (RHC)-- Israel has fired artillery rounds into the Syrian side of the Golan Heights, claiming the assault was a response to several rocket attacks that earlier targeted the Israeli-occupied part of the territory. ... More
New York, January 27 (RHC)-- States of emergency were declared across the Northeastern United States due to a heavy winter storm that is still hitting Massachusetts hard. ... More
La Paz, January 27 (RHC-teleSUR) -- In an exclusive interview with teleSUR Monday, Bolivian President Evo Morales spoke of neoliberalism and imperialism’s long history across the Americas. Morales denounced the ongoing attacks against Venezuela in light of the international forum currently underway in Caracas and organized by teleSUR and the Venezuelan Ombudsman Office addressing human rights abuses that take place under neoliberal regimes.... More
Santiago de Chile, January 27 (RHC-Xinhua) -- A majority of Latin American countries have stopped making headway in poverty reduction, a United Nations agency said Monday. The Santiago de Chile-based Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) presented a study that shows poverty affected 28 percent of Latin Americans last year, meaning "its decline has stalled at around that level since 2012."... More
Bogota, January 27 (RHC-Xinhua) -- Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has congratulated Paulina Vega for her victory in an annual Miss Universe pageant. "It shows we have very intelligent, very hard-working, but above all, very pretty women," the Caracol news network quoted Santos as saying.... More
Athens, January 26 (RHC)-- Partial results from legislative elections in Greece show the opposition Syriza party has garnered a big victory, with the Greek prime minister conceding defeat to the leader of the anti-austerity party. ... More
Caracas, January 26 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The Venezuelan government has congratulated Alexis Tsipras, the leader of the left-wing Syriza party, who won a massive victory in Greece's parliamentary elections Sunday and has been inaugurated as the country's prime minister.... More
United Nations, January 26 (RHC)-- The United Nations has called on the Israeli regime to immediately stop the destruction of Palestinian houses in the occupied West Bank. “In the past three days, 77 Palestinians, over half of them children, have been made homeless,” James W. Rawley, the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territory, said on Friday. ... More
Quito, January 26 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The Ecuadorean National Secretariat for Planning and Development has announced that between 2007 and 2014, over 1.5 million people have been lifted out of poverty in the South American country. These years coincide with the administration of Rafael Correa and the policies of what is known as the Citizen's Revolution, which recently celebrated eight years of government.... More
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