Havana, June 17 (RHC)-- Laotian Deputy Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith expressed in Havana his country's interest in expanding cooperation with Cuba in the biotechnology sector.... More


Mexico City, June 17 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The Mexican Government has criticized U.S. business tycoon Donald Trump as “absurd and prejudiced” after he said Mexico sent rapists, drug traffickers and criminals across the border into the United States. ... More


Mexico City, June 17 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The embattled central Mexican state of Michoacan has once again been the setting of a violent shootout, which left seven people dead on Tuesday including two police, with five officers injured and one missing, according to local authorities. ... More


Lima, June 17 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Forest experts from the public and private sector of 20 Latin American countries met again in the town of Tarapoto, Peru to define criteria and indicators (C&I) for sustainable forest management in the Amazon. ... More


Lima, June 17 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Illegal exports of gold combined with the legal distribution of the mineral would make Peru the second largest exporter of the metal, behind only to China. ... More


San Salvador, June 17 (teleSUR-RHC)-- El Salvador’s Secretary of Culture announced Monday that the country has worked with over a dozen Indigenous organizations on a new policy aiming to better the lives of native peoples in the Central American state and that it will be presented in the upcoming days. ... More


Santiago de Chile, June 17 (RHC-EFE)-- President Michelle Bachelet signed into law on Tuesday a new regulatory regime for foreign investment in Chile.... More


Sao Paulo, June 17 (RHC-EFE)-- Brazil’s Federal Police have dismantled a criminal organization engaged in drug trafficking and money laundering, authorities said Monday.... More


Sports News Roundup June 16

Sergio Ramos, star of the Spanish team and Real Madrid, traveled to Cuba today as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), according to local press reports. Sergio Ramos, star of the Spanish team and Real Madrid, traveled to Cuba today as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), according to local press reports. ... More


Abuja, June 16 (RHC)-- Two bombing attacks target separate locations in the local government area of Potiskum in Nigeria's northeastern Yobe State, killing 10 people. An attacker, who had been arrested after being suspected of theft, killed eight vigilantes after detonating his explosives at a civilian vigilante office on Monday. ... More


Quito, June 16 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa announced on Monday night in a televised address that the National Assembly vote on two controversial tax bills, which sparked a series of protests last week, will be temporarily suspended.... More


Vienna, June 16 (RHC)-- Iran and the P5+1 group of countries are set to resume another round of expert-level nuclear talks in the Austrian capital of Vienna as a self-imposed June 30 deadline approaches. ... More


Gaza City, June 16 (RHC)-- As the prospect of a UN report on Israel's bloody 2014 attack on Gaza draws nearer, the world body's point man on human rights situation in the occupied territories is kept outside the Palestinian territory by Israel. ... More


Ramallah, June 16 (RHC)-- Palestinian demonstrators have held a rally in the northern part of the occupied territories to protest against the demolition of a house by Israeli forces. The protest was staged in the town of Kafr Kanna on Monday after a house belonging to a Palestinian family was demolished. ... More


Ramallah, June 16 (RHC)-- An Israeli army jeep has struck and killed a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank. ... More


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