Madrid, February 3 (RHC)-- Official figures show the number of suicides in Spain increased by 11.3 percent in 2012 from the previous year, reaching its highest level in the past years. Figures from Spain's National Institute of Statistics showed 3,539 suicide (2,724 men and 815 women) cases in Spain during 2012, a rate of 7.6 per 100,000 inhabitants. The figures were the highest since 2005.... More
Brussels, February 3 (RHC)-- Official figures show that the jobless rate in the Eurozone remained near record high of 12 percent in December. The jobless rate, which was released by the European Union's Statistics Office -- Eurostat -- has remained unchanged since October.... More
San Salvador, February 3 (RHC) -- In El Salvador, official results from the country’s presidential election show that the candidate from the ruling Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), Salvador Sanchez Ceren, narrowly missed victory and will face a run-off vote with a conservative rival.... More
Washington, February 3 (RHC)-- Thousands of U.S. Marines could be based in Africa in coming years as part of America’s so-called global realignment, according to a top U.S. Army general in the region.... More
Addis Ababa, February 3 (RHC)-- The African Union has called on the International Criminal Court to stop criminal proceedings against sitting African presidents, urging AU member states to "speak with one voice" against the ICC.... More
Caracas, Feb 1, (RHC), -- The Venezuelan government launched Friday a new security measure to crack down on a surge in crimes.... More
Warsaw, February 1 (RHC)-- New details have emerged on the George W. Bush-era secret CIA jail used to hold and torture foreign prisoners in Poland.... More
Quito, Feb 1, (RHC), -- Ecuador on Friday dispatched a new contingent of peacekeepers to join UN peacekeeping forces in Haiti, which is still struggling to recover from a devastating earthquake in 2010.... More
Washington, February 1 (RHC)-- Documents obtained by U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden have revealed more about U.S. spying activities after Washington's spy chief James Clapper called on him to return all of the remaining unpublished documents.... More
La Paz, Feb 1, (RHC), -- Bolivia will not drop the suit it has filed against neighboring Chile at The Hague-based International Court of Justice (ICJ), demanding for its access to Pacific Ocean through Chile, Bolivian President Evo Morales said Friday.... More
Bangkok, February 1 (RHC)-- Anti-government protesters in Thailand have formed blockades around buildings where ballot papers are being kept in a bid to prevent their distribution ahead of elections tomorrow, Sunday.... More
Geneva, January 31 (RHC)-- The United Nations says the Syrian opposition and government officials are to resume crisis talks in February. ... More
Brasilia, January 31 (RHC) -- Brazil's Foreign Minister Luiz Alberto Figueiredo said Thursday that his meeting with a leading U.S. official over U.S. spying on Brazil failed to resolve the matter.... More
La Paz, January 31 (RHC) -- Bolivian President Evo Morales on Thursday called on the world's economic powers to seek solutions to climate change and the natural disasters it causes.... More
Ramallah, January 31 (RHC)-- Israeli forces have razed down an entire Palestinian village in the Jordan Valley region of the occupied West Bank.... More
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