Kabul, March 4 (RHC)-- In news from Afghanistan, a radio station owner who airs ads paid for by U.S. forces says those same forces raided his station, beat him and threatened to kill him last week, before releasing him the next day without charge. ... More
Bogotá, March 4 (RHC) -- Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos is presenting his formal application to register for the country's upcoming presidential elections next May 25th, which will allow him to officially launch his candidacy and campaign for re-election.... More
Kabul, March 4 (RHC)-- Afghan President Hamid Karzai says the United States and its Western allies launched the war in Afghanistan for their own interests. “Afghans died in a war that’s not ours,” Karzai said in an interview with the Washington Post. He said that the 12-year-old war was “for U.S. security and for Western interests.”... More
Sao Paulo, March 4 (RHC) -- Amid carnival celebrations in Brazil, several groups of protesters belonging to the Landless Peasants Movement (MST) occupied 17 estates in the southeastern province of Sao Paulo.... More
London, March 4 (RHC)-- A former Guantánamo Bay prisoner who spent three years in U.S. custody without charge or trial has been ordered to remain in detention in Britain following his arrest on terrorism charges related to the conflict in Syria. ... More
Islamabad, March 4 (RHC)-- In Pakistan, the latest attack on a polio vaccination team killed at least 13 people in the country’s northwest. ... More
Gaza City, March 4 (RHC)-- Israel is facing condemnation over the killing of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. Over the weekend, Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian woman in the Gaza strip. ... More
Caracas, March 3 (RHC) -– Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elias Jaua will meet on Tuesday with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to discuss the current crisis in Venezuela, instigated by violent opposition sectors in a bid to overthrow the socialist government of President Nicolas Maduro.... More
Moscow, March 3 (RHC)-- Russia's Federal Border Guard Service reported that Moscow is concerned about a “humanitarian catastrophe” in Ukraine as new figures show that an estimated 675,000 Ukrainian citizens have arrived in Russia in January and February this year.... More
Geneva, March 3 (RHC) -- A demonstration in support of Venezuela and the government of President Nicolas Maduro will take place Wednesday in front of the Place des Nations in the Swiss city of Geneva. ... More
Washington, March 3 (RHC)-- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says Russia could be ousted from the Group of Eight (G-8) over its deployment of troops in the restive Ukrainian region, warning that Moscow will suffer a loss of trade and investment if it does not retreat. ... More
La Paz, March 3 (RHC) -- Four people were killed and 60 more injured when a footbridge collapsed during the opening of the Carnival of Oruro on Saturday. According to an official report on Sunday, three of the four killed were musicians and the other one was a female fan.... More
Tripoli, March 3 (RHC)-- Dozens of protesters have stormed Libya's interim parliament building in Tripoli, with some of them rampaging through the building. According to witnesses, the demonstrators entered the General National Congress (GNC) on Sunday and called for its dissolution, AFP reported.... More
Bogota, March 3 (RHC) -- The military leader of the criminal gang Los Urabeños, Heriberto Zafra (aka Diego Montoya), was arrested in the northern Colombian department of Santander, in a rural area of Lebrija.... More
Washington, March 3 (RHC)-- The co-founder of CODEPINK, a peace and social justice movement, says hundreds of anti-war protesters called for peace with Iran outside the venue of the annual policy conference of American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in Washington, DC.... More
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