Mexico City, January 14 (RHC-teleSUR) -- The former mayor of the Mexican city where the 43 Ayotzinapa teachers training college students were disappeared in September has been charged with kidnapping, the Attorney General's Office (PGR) announced Tuesday evening.... More


Washington, January 14 (RHC)-- The Pentagon has announced a plan to close down 15 military bases in Europe due to shrinking budgets. Pentagon officials said they were ending operations at an air base in Britain along with 14 other sites in Europe and handing them back to their home governments in a move to save $500 million annually. ... More


Caracas, January 14 (RHC-Xinhua) -- The Venezuelan government has turned down an offer from Chile to help resume talks between the ruling socialist party and the conservative opposition, whose ties were battered by last year's protests.... More


Nassau, January 14 (RHC-CMC) -– Bahamas says it intends to place on the agenda of the next Caribbean Community (CARICOM) heads of government meeting, the attacks by the Boko Haram militant Islamist group on Nigeria.... More


Paris, January 14 (RHC)-- France's parliament has overwhelmingly voted for the continuing of airstrikes against the ISIL Takfiri militants in Iraq as part of a U.S.-led coalition. During a Tuesday session, 488 French Lawmakers voted for the extension of the operations, with only one vote against and 13 abstentions. ... More


Mexico City, January 14 (RHC-teleSUR) -- Parents of the 43 Ayotzinapa Rural College students who went missing in September met once again with the Attorney General's Office to review progress in the case Tuesday.... More


Brussels, January 14 (RHC)-- As many as 5,000 European Union nationals have left the continent to join alongside terrorist militants fighting overseas, the head of the EU police agency, Europol, says. "We're talking about 3,000 to 5,000 EU nationals," Europol Director Rob Wainwright told British lawmakers on Tuesday, while referring to the number of foreign militants that had left from Europe. ... More


Mexico City, January 14 (RHC-teleSUR) -- Mexico’s attorney general’s office announced Tuesday that the investigation into the case of the missing 43 Ayotzinapa teachers training college students has gone cold.... More


Brussels, January 14 (RHC)-- The European Parliament has confirmed that the entry of illegal immigrants to the 28-nation bloc spiked in 2014. Dimitris Avramopoulos, the EUŽs Commissioner for Migration and Home Affairs, told the European Parliament: "In 2014, more than 276,000 migrants arrived in the EU, representing an increase of 138 percent compared to the previous year." ... More


Brasilia, January 14 (RHC-EFE) –- Brazil accepted a total of 2,320 refugees from other countries, mostly from Syria, in 2014, compared to 651 applications approved the previous year, the Justice Ministry said.... More


Maputo, January 14 (RHC)-- Flooding has claimed at least 40 lives in Mozambique and neighboring Malawi, where a state of emergency has been declared over almost a third of the country. According to reports: A group of 25 school children was swept away by torrents in Mozambique on Monday, and 18 others have been reported missing in the country, whose large eastern swathes have been swamped. ... More


Caracas, January 14 (RHC-EFE) -– A government raid on a warehouse in western Venezuela has resulted in the confiscation of more than 1.5 million diapers along with over 360 tons of detergent and thousands of pounds of food which were being illegally hoarded.... More


Denver, January 14 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Colorado, the FBI says a deliberate explosion outside an office of the NAACP, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, may have been an act of domestic terrorism. ... More


Buenos Aires, January 14 (RHC-Mercopress) -– Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez will be travelling to Beijing next month, reciprocating a visit from her Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping last July, according to an official announcement issued by chief of staff Jorge Capitanich. ... More


Havana, January 14 (RHC) -- The Ministry of Public Health of Cuba has convened the Second International Course for the Prevention and Management of an Ebola pandemic, to be held from February 9th to the 14th.... More


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