Lima, April 16 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Peru’s APRA party expelled Gerald Oropeza Lopez on Wednesday for alleged links to drug trafficking. ... More


Quito, April 16 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The revolutionary “The Law for Labor Justice and Recognition of Work from Home,” was passed by Ecuador's National Assembly on Tuesday. ... More


Baghdad, April 15 (RHC)-- At least 20 Iraqis have reportedly lost their lives in a wave of bomb attacks in and around the capital, Baghdad. According to Iraqi police sources, at least seven Iraqi individuals lost their lives in a car bomb attack in a commercial area in the town of Mahmoudiyah, about 30 kilometers (20 miles) south of Baghdad. ... More


Bogota, April 15 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Colombian authorities reported on Wednesday that a military convoy was attacked by unidentified gunmen the government is saying are FARC rebels with whom they've been in negotiation peace since 2012. ... More


Washington, April 15 (RHC)-- The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee has approved a measure that would give Congress a say in the final nuclear deal with Iran. The bill was passed by unanimous vote after U.S. President Barack Obama withdrew his opposition. ... More


Caracas, April 15 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced on Tuesday that his government may take diplomatic, economic, and other measures against the Spanish government of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, which urged Caracas to release right-wing opposition leaders, in prison for causing last years waves of violence. ... More


Rome, April 15 (RHC)-- Survivors of a capsized vessel say as many as 400 people may have drowned in the shipwreck after leaving Libya, while making the deadly journey across the Mediterranean. ... More


Berlin, April 15 (RHC)-- West Germany secretly helped and funded Israel with its development of nuclear weapons in the 1960s, according to a report from Berlin. The government of former German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer clandestinely channeled hundreds of millions of dollars into Israel's nuclear program, said a report published in the German daily Die Welt on Tuesday. ... More


Washington, April 15 (RHC)-- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has spent a second day urging lawmakers on Capitol Hill not to interfere in Iran nuclear talks, as senators prepare to vote on a bill that would give Congress authority to reject a final nuclear agreement with Tehran. ... More


New York, April 15 (RHC)-- Protests have been held from coast to coast in a day of action against police violence and racial profiling. ... More


Washington, April 15 (RHC)-- Protests are being held across the United States today in what organizers call the "largest-ever mobilization of underpaid workers." Fast-food workers in 230 cities are walking off the job as part of the "Fight for $15" campaign, a push for a $15-an-hour minimum wage. ... More


Berlin, April 15 (RHC)-- A nine-year-old girl is reportedly pregnant after being gang-raped in captivity by the militant group Islamic State in Iraq. The young girl is one of more than 200 Yazidi Christians released by ISIS last week.... More


Sports News Roundup April 15

Four Cuban baseball players will play this Season in the Canadian Independent League Baseball (Can-Am), including Yunieski Gourriel, who repeated with The Capitals of Quebec.... More


Quito, April 15 (teleSUR-RHC)-- During a massive event with social movements and indigenous leaders in the town of Cangahua, in the outskirts of Quito, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa promised he will raise a social security scheme designed for the informal sector workers. ... More


Santiago de Chile, April 15 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Five indigenous Mapuche communities from the Bio-Bio region in Southern Chile are seeking to invalidate an approval granted to the Celulosa Horcones company to expand their factory, saying the community was not properly consulted. ... More


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