Washington, January 31 (RHC)-- The U.S. State Department has once again criticized Israel’s latest plans to construct hundreds of new settlement projects in the occupied West Bank. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said on Friday that Washington is in close contact with Palestinian and Israeli officials over the issue. ... More
United Nations, January 31 (RHC-UNNS) -- United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday voiced encouragement as Colombian stakeholders prepare to resume peace talks in Havana next week in an effort to end the country’s decades-long internal conflict.... More
Washington, January 31 (RHC)-- The U.S. Justice Department has been spying on hundreds of millions of American drivers, says a new report by the Wall Street Journal. The Justice Department has been gathering a national database in order to track in real time the movement of motorists around the US, according to current and former officials and government documents. ... More
Washington, January 31 (RHC)-- Half of the United States Senate has refused to formally acknowledge the existence of man-made climate change. Forty-nine Republicans voted against a measure noting "human activity significantly contributes to climate change." ... More
Managua, January 31 (RHC-PL) -- Nicaragua's president Daniel Ortega has appointed Puerto Rican pro-independence leader Ruben Berrios as his advisor for international policies on decolonization.... More
Washington, January 31 (RHC)-- The new Republican chair of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee has asked the Barack Obama administration to return all copies of the Senate’s landmark report on CIA torture. ... More
Caracas, January 31 (RHC-Xinhua) -- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Friday that U.S. agencies are plotting to overthrow him, and asked President Barack Obama if he is aware of the conspiracy.... More
New York, January 31 (RHC)-- Former U.S. drone operator Brandon Bryant, who was involved in the killing of more than 1600 people, says aerial strikes are conducted with complete uncertainty. Bryant, who worked for almost five years in America's secret drone program bombing targets in Afghanistan and other countries, such as Pakistan and Iraq, said operators lacked visibility and were not sure about the identity of the people they were shooting at. ... More
Caracas, January 31 (RHC-teleSUR) -- The Venezuelan ombudsman, Tarek Williams Saab, explained Friday that new regulations on security matters ensure human rights and safety at demonstrations.... More
Paris, January 31 (RHC)-- The number of anti-Muslim incidents has risen sharply in France since this month’s attack on satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, a leading Muslim group says. The French Council for the Muslim Religion said on Friday that 128 incidents or threats against Muslims were reported from January 7th through the 20th. The council went on to say this month’s number of attacks is more than all of last year’s. ... More
Buenos Aires, January 31 (RHC-PL) -- President Cristina Fernández urged all political forces in Argentina to have a calm year and hold elections in peace, as she announced a substantial increase in retirement pensions.... More
Washington, January 31 (RHC)-- In environmental news, U.S. President Barack Obama has announced a plan to designate 12 million acres in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as wilderness in an effort to ban oil and gas drilling in the area. ... More
Bogotá, January 31 (RHC-teleSUR) -- Around 800 members of Colombia’s right-wing Democratic Centre Party participated in a demonstration Friday outside the attorney general’s office in support of the party’s president and last year’s presidential candidate Oscar Ivan Zuluaga, who has been summoned to testify about his alleged role in an illegal spying scandal.... More
New York, January 31 (RHC)-- Google has revealed it secretly gave the U.S. government the e-mail messages and metadata of three top members of the whistleblowing organization WikiLeaks — investigations editor Sarah Harrison, section editor Joseph Farrell, and spokesperson Kristinn Hrafnsson, a longtime Icelandic journalist. ... More
Buenos Aires, January 31 (RHC-teleSUR) -- Argentinian Chief of Cabinet Jorge Capitanich accused U.S. Republican senator Marco Rubio of “imperialist behavior,” after the right-wing politician expressed doubts about the Argentinian government's ability to conduct the investigation into the death of the prosecutor Alberto Nisman.... More
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