London, April 13 (teleSUR-RHC) British troops have completed a test-raid on the Malvinas Islands, the UK newspaper The Express reported on Sunday. ... More
Washington, April 13 (RHC)-- Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says she is running for the president of the United States in 2016, starting her bid to become the first woman to win the White House. "I'm running for president," Clinton said in a video on her campaign website on Sunday afternoon, officially launching a vigorous effort to secure the Democratic nomination for the 2016 elections, seven years after a bitter defeat to Barack Obama.... More
Mexico City, April 13 (teleSUR-RHC) The Mexican Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights (CDPHR), an NGO based in Mexico City, has released a new report showing that more than 4,000 cases of torture have been filed to the federal General Attorney’s office over the past eight years. ... More
Tokyo, April 13 (RHC)-- A newly-released poll shows an overwhelming majority of residents on the Japanese island of Okinawa are against the relocation of a controversial U.S. military base there. The survey published by the newspaper Japan Times revealed that 76.1 percent of Okinawa residents are against “the construction of a new base” in the Henoko district of the southern city of Nago as a replacement for the U.S. Futenma base.... More
KABUL, April 13 (RHC) -- More than 20 security personnel had been killed, some of them beheaded by Taliban militants couple of days ago in Jarm district of Badakhshan province, 315 km northeast of Kabul.... More
MOSCOW, April 13 (Xinhua) -- At least 15 people were killed and over 120 others were injured in wildfires sweeping through Russia's southern Siberian Republic of Khakassia, local authorities said Monday.... More
Baltimore, April 13 (RHC)-- Low-income U.S. residents in Baltimore, Maryland are being threatened with having their water shut off if they fail to pay outstanding bills, a move critics say is a clear violation of human rights. With little notice and no public hearings, more than 25,000 households in Baltimore may suddenly lose their access to water for owing bills of $250 or more starting this week. The majority of these households are occupied by low income or very poor residents.... More
La Paz, April 13 (teleSUR-RHC) President Evo Morales blamed U.S. President Barack Obama for the Summit of the Americas ending without a final declaration on his return to Bolivia on Sunday. “One point (in the drafted declaration) was important: health as a human right, and the U.S. government did not accept that health should be considered a human right … President Obama did not accept the document,” explained Morales. ... More
Quito, April 13 (teleSUR-RHC) The contradictory actions by U.S. President Barack Obama in Latin America are incoherent, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa told teleSUR, in an exclusive interview. ... More
Havana, April 13 (RHC) – Cuban President Raul Castro arrived Sunday afternoon in Havana from Panama, where he took part, for the first time ever, in the Summit of the Americas.... More
Washington, April 13 (RHC) - U.S. President Barack Obama will decide in "the next few days" whether to remove Cuba from a blacklist of state sponsors of terrorism, according to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.... More
BEIJING, April 13 (Xinhua) -- A Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Monday that China welcomes and supports the normalization of relationship between Cuba and the United States.... More
Washington, April 13, (RHC), — US Secretary of State John Kerry has also said that the restoration of relations between the United States and Cuba will be a slow process.... More
Washington, April 13, (RHC), – US Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro is applauding the U.S. State Department’s reported recommendation to remove Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism.... More
Havana, April 13, (RHC), -- A delegation of 45 businesspeople are slated to participate Tuesday in a forum with Cuban entrepreneurs, with the aim of discussing new opportunities for business.... More
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