Quito, June 15 (teleSUR-RHC)-- A caravan of vehicles occupied by right-wing protesters descended Sunday on the highway leading to the international airport in Quito, Ecuador in an effort to prevent President Rafael Correa from being able to safely return to the country. ... More
Bogota, June 15 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Colombia’s president announced on Sunday that a prominent leader of the ELN (National Liberation Army) had been killed, just a day after the government ordered the armed forces to intensify their attacks against guerrilla groups. ... More
Brussels, June 15 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Bolivian President Evo Morales urged European countries to release themselves from the “shackles of the North American Empire” by turning their backs on the International Monetary Fund. ... More
Guatemala City, June 15 (teleSUR-RHC)-- A wave of protests born out of the revelations of corruption scandals led in May to the resignation of Vice-president Roxana Baldetti. ... More
Port-au-Prince, June 15 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Top diplomats from Venezuela and the United States met on Saturday in Haiti in an attempt to normalize bilateral relations. The encounter was mediated by the host country's president Michel Martelly. During the meeting, the delegations discussed common areas of agreement, including support for the Haitian people in their struggle against Cholera. ... More
Kabul, June 13 (RHC)-- A bomb explosion has rocked an area near the parliament building in the Afghan capital, Kabul, leaving at least three soldiers wounded, Press TV reports. The blast occurred when a magnetic bomb attached to a military vehicle exploded near Darul Aman area in western Kabul on Friday.... More
Brasilia, June 13 (RHC-Xinhua) -- Over the last 12 months, 6,491 Brazilian children and teenagers were saved from child labor, the Brazilian Labor Ministry announced on this year's World Day Against Child Labor, which was commemorated on Friday. ... More
Washington, June 13 (RHC)-- The United States has spent more than $2.7 billion on the military campaign against the ISIL terrorist group in Iraq and Syria, averaging more than $9 million a day, the Pentagon says.... More
Berlin, June 13 (RHC)-- Germany’s attorney general has dropped an investigation into the suspected tapping by the US intelligence services of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cell phone calls, citing a lack of evidence for the case to succeed in court. The office of Germany’s Chief Federal Prosecutor Harald Range announced the decision in a statement issued on Friday. ... More
New York, June 13 (RHC)-- Puerto Rican leaders are protesting the Barack Obama administration’s unveiling of deep cuts to Puerto Rico’s Medicare program.... More
Paris, June 13 (RHC)-- The former head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has been acquitted of aggravated pimping by a French court. ... More
Panama City, June 13 (RHC-Euronews), -- The new Panama Canal is near 90% complete, and on Thursday a test stretch on the Atlantic coastline was flooded for the first time.... More
Washington, June 13 (RHC)-- A new report shows that hackers have managed to access Social Security numbers and all personal information of every U.S. federal employee. The security breach, which is the worst during the Barack Obama administration, was reportedly carried out by Chinese hackers, a U.S. government worker union told the Associated Press.... More
Cleveland, June 13 (RHC)-- In Ohio, a judge has found probable cause to charge a police officer with murder for the fatal shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice last November. Rice was playing with a toy gun when police fatally shot him within two seconds of their arrival. ... More
Havana, June 13 (RHC) – Participants at the “60th Anniversary of the 26 of July Movement” Workshop granted a distinction to Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro, as well as to Armando Hart Davalos and Pedro Miret Prieto -- honoring them as founding members of the first National Directory of the 26th of July Movement, an organization that led the guerrilla fight against the Batista dictatorship.... More
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