La Paz, March 13 (RHC) -- United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will attend an upcoming summit of the Group of 77 developing countries plus China (G-77 + China) in Santa Cruz, Bolivia in June, Bolivian President Evo Morales announced Wednesday. ... More
London, March 13 (RHC)-- Britain’s Scotland Yard police have been accused of covering up "institutionalized sexism" in a bid to block claims by women deceived into relationships with undercover officers. ... More
Santiago de Chile, March 13 (RHC) – Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet will travel to Argentina in April for what will be her first official visit since being re-elected, Foreign Minister Heraldo Muñoz confirmed on Wednesday. ... More
Madison, March 13 (RHC)-- Revelations by the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden on the massive U.S. surveillance programs show that Washington still has the Cold War-era mentality, a political analyst says.... More
Bogotá, March 13 (RHC) -– At least six people have been killed in an ambulance aircraft crash in the central Colombian province of Meta. Authorities say that the aircraft crashed around 6:30 a.m. local time (1130 GMT) Wednesday near Vanguardia airport in Villavicencio, leaving no survivors. ... More
Washington, March 13 (RHC)-- A hunger-striking Guantánamo prisoner has filed the first-ever legal challenge to force-feeding at the prison in U.S. federal courts. Emad Hassan is said to have been force-fed over 5,000 times since his first hunger strike in 2005. ... More
New Orleans, March 13 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Louisiana, a prisoner has been freed after 30 years on death row. Glenn Ford walked out of the Angola penitentiary on Tuesday after a judge vacated his murder conviction and death sentence. ... More
Seattle, March 13 (RHC)-- At least 750 prisoners at a Washington state immigration jail have launched a hunger strike. The strikers at the Northwest Detention Center are protesting the Barack Obama administration’s record deportations as well as poor conditions that include wages of just one dollar a day for prison labor. ... More
Literature, cuisine, music, films, visual arts and theater will top the agenda of the French Culture Festival -Francofonia 2014-, set for the Cuban capital from March 15 through 23, with the eastern city of Santiago of Cuba as a sub-venue.... More
Washington, March 12 (RHC)-- White House press secretary Jay Carney says U.S. military exercises with Romanian and Bulgarian warships in the Black Sea "speak in a clear voice" to Russia.... More
Paramaribo, March 12 (RHC) -- Desi Bouterse, the current head of Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), pledged to call a meeting of regional leaders to discuss the situation in Venezuela -- gripped by more than one-month of violent riots.... More
Moscow, March 12 (RHC)-- Russia has said U.S. efforts to provide financial aid to Ukraine’s pro-Western government are illegal.... More
Santiago, March 12 (RHC) -- Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, who was sworn in Tuesday for a second four-year term, vowed to strengthen relations with Latin American and Asia Pacific countries.... More
Washington, March 12 (RHC)-- The spat between the CIA and its U.S. Senate overseers has intensified with open sparring in public. On Tuesday, Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Dianne Feinstein took to the Senate floor to directly accuse the CIA of spying on staffers and their computers in an effort to undermine the panel’s exhaustive report on the agency’s torture and rendition program. ... More
Kingstown, March 12 (RHC) -– Dozens of Caribbean states have agreed to launch a legal action against European countries involved in slave trade of the 17th and 18th centuries, Press TV news channel reported.... More
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