Mexico City, September 19 (teleSUR-RHC) --- Farmworkers carried out a march in Mexico City to the Agrarian Superior Court, demanding that it appeal a decision by a farmer's cooperative assembly to modify the status of a vast extension of land, to be sold for the construction of the new US$9.2-billion airport announced by President Enrique Peña Nieto earlier this month.... More


Los Angeles, September 19 (RHC)-- The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency is frustrated for being asked to train the ISIL terrorist group and at the very same time to combat it, a former CIA contractor says. Steven D. Kelley made the remarks in a phone interview with Press TV from Anaheim, California. ... More


Washington, September 19 (RHC)-- U.S. President Barack Obama has hailed Congress for approving his plan to arm and train what he called 'moderate' opposition militants fighting against the Syrian government. ... More


La Paz, September 19 (teleSUR-RHC) --- The Minister of Productive Development Teresa Morales delivered a presentation on the achievements and challenges of the Bolivian industrialization process in which she announced that the government aims to invest US$1.2 billion dollars per year until 2025 towards industrialization projects.... More


Quito, September 19 (RHC) –- Fifteen left-wing Ecuadorian organizations on Thursday created a new alliance called 'Unidos' against the opponents of President Rafael Correa, after Wednesday's demonstrations organized by Ecuadorian conservative organizations.... More


Brussels, September 19 (RHC)-- The European Parliament has censured Israel over construction of illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian lands. On Thursday, members of the European Parliament (MEPs) slammed Israel for the seizure of large swathes of Palestinian lands, and criticized the 28-member European Union's failure to intervene and stop West Bank land expropriation. ... More


United Nations, September 19 (teleSUR-RHC) -- A week before the United Nations is scheduled to hold a climate summit in New York, Central American countries decided to launch a regional project of education over climate change in their respective countries during a workshop hold in the frame of the U.N. project Learn About Climate Change.... More


France Begins Bombing Iraq

Paris, September 19 (teleSUR-RHC) --- The French government announced it had began launching airstrikes in Iraq on Friday morning. President Francois Hollande had announced on Thursday, during a press briefing, that he had approved strikes.... More


Lima, September 19 (Andina-RHC) -- More than 700 government officials from 50 countries are expected to attend the 3rd World Resources Forum (WRF) which will be hosted by Arequipa, in southern Peru, from 19-23 Oct.... More


Caracas, September 18 (Xinhua-RHC) -- Venezuelan Health Minister Nancy Perez has confirmed 398 cases of chikungunya virus and 45,745 cases of dengue virus in the country, state media reported.... More


Mexico City, September 18 (RHC) -– At least two million people were internally displaced in Mexico between 2008 and 2013, due to natural disasters in the country, the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC) reported on Wednesday.... More


Beijing, September 18 (EFE-RHC) --Ecuadorian Defense Minister Maria Fernanda Espinosa and her Chinese counterpart, Chang Wanquan, have agreed during a meeting in Beijing to strengthen bilateral military ties.... More


Brasilia, September 18 (Xinhua-RHC) -- Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff Wednesday pledged to preserve labor rights if re-elected in October, including the year-end bonus, vacations and overtime pay.... More


Bogota, September 18 (EFE-RHC) --Sixty Colombian musical artists, including Carlos Vives, Juanes and Andres Cepeda, have released the song "A Step Toward Peace," as part of the I Can campaign that aims to end the decades-long armed conflict in the country.... More


Lima, September 18 (Andina-RHC) -- Peruvian President Ollanta Humala will meet his Colombian counterpart, Juan Manuel Santos, on September 30th in the Amazon city of Iquitos, as part of the first ever cabinet session between the two neighboring nations, reported the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.... More


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