New York, November 13 (RHC-Mercopress) -- New York District Judge Thomas Griesa has authorized Citibank to complete the transfer of 85 million dollars to holders of restructured Argentine bonds under Argentine law, meeting debt services that expire on December 31.... More
Santiago de Chile, November 13 (RHC-EFE) --An aging population will characterize the Latin American and Caribbean region in the 21st century, a phenomenon attributable to lower fertility rates and longer life expectancy, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean said in a study released in Santiago Wednesday.... More
Freetown, November 13 (RHC)-- A new report says the three Ebola-stricken countries have lost more money to corporate tax dodging than they spend on public health. ... More
Montevideo, November 13 (RHC-EFE) -- Forty-five percent of the scientific researchers in Latin America are women, the highest for any region of the world, the head of the Science Policy and Sustainable Development Division of UNESCO, Lidia Brito, said Wednesday.... More
London, November 13 (RHC)-- The British group Reprieve has revealed the United States has made secret compensation payments to the families of two Yemeni civilians mistakenly killed in a drone strike. ... More
United Nations, November 13 (RHC-PL) –- The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) has condemned efforts by some members of the Security Council to manipulate the United Nations body for political purposes and acting against the interests of the Southern States.... More
New York, November 13 (teleSUR-RHC), -- The New York Times newspaper slammed Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto in an editorial Wednesday, saying that he has failed to reduce the violence in the country.... More
Cairo, November 13 (RHC)-- Clashes between anti-government protesters and police forces have left at least two demonstrators dead and several others wounded in the Egyptian province of Giza. People took to the streets in Giza province, south of the capital city of Cairo, on Wednesday to protest against the Egyptian government. ... More
Washington, D.C., November 13 (teleSUR-RHC), -- The Amazon rain forest stores about 180 metric tons of carbon and absorbs about 25 percent of carbon dioxide in the air emitted by both humans and natural sources, according to a new high resolution mapping technique that can detect exactly where carbon is being stored in the rain forest.... More
Moscow, November 13 (teleSUR-RHC), -- Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced Wednesday that his country will send long-range bombers to patrol the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean and the Arctic as a response to rising tensions with Western countries over the Ukrainian conflict.... More
Mexico City, November 12 (RHC-Xinhua) -- Teachers protesting the reported massacre of 43 students in late September clashed with police Tuesday in Mexico's southern state of Guerrero and took a state official hostage.... More
Ramallah, November 12 (RHC)-- Thousands of mourners have gathered for the funeral of a 21-year-old Palestinian man slain by Israeli soldiers. Mourners waved Palestinian flags and condemned Israeli crimes during Mohammad Imad Jawabra’s funeral in the al-Arroub refugee camp in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron on Tuesday. The mourners also called for an end to Israel’s atrocities and demanded justice for Palestinian victims. ... More
Ramallah, November 12 (RHC)-- Israeli settlers have set a Palestinian mosque on fire amid worsening unrest in Israel and the occupied West Bank. The torching of the mosque near the West Bank city of Ramallah follows separate Palestinian knife attacks that killed an Israeli settler and an Israeli soldier. ... More
Lima, November 12 (teleSUR-RHC), -- Peruvian Indigenous journalists are making their voices heard at the 2014 Communication and Culture Gathering in Lima. On Tuesday, Indigenous journalist Leonardo Tello came to Lima from the Amazon to share his experiences working as Director of Radio Ucamara.... More
Managua, November 12 (RHC-PL) -- The number of Chikungunya virus cases in Nicaragua reached 582, after another 46 persons were diagnosed with the disease, said Rosario Murillo, coordinator of the Communications and Citizenship Council.... More
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