Bogota, September 17 (NNN-RHC) --- Colombia's police chief says leftist rebels have killed seven police officers and injured five in an ambush in the country's northwest.... More


Ottawa, September 17 (RHC)-- Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper says his country has deployed 69 soldiers to Iraq to advise security forces fighting the ISIL Takfiri militants in the northern part of the violence-hit country. ... More


Caracas, September 17 (teleSUR-RHC) -- Venezuela and Iran launched their eighth Joint Commission on Tuesday, aimed at deepening cooperation between the two countries.... More


Gaza City, September 17 (RHC)-- Palestinian lawyers have confirmed torture evidence after visiting prisoners detained during the Israeli assault on the besieged Gaza Strip. Lawyers from the Gaza-based Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) who gained access to four prisoners held at the Ashkelon prison, confirmed in a report on its website that the prisoners were beaten and shackled between two chairs for hours. ... More


La Paz, September 17 (Xinhua-RHC) -- Bolivia rejected Tuesday U.S. allegations of its failure in combating drug trafficking and production, describing the report which accused Bolivia of non-fulfillment of anti-drug agreements as "unilateral" and biased.... More


Berlin, September 17 (RHC)-- Plans to rebuild a church with ties to Hitler and the Nazi party's origins in Germany have sparked a national row. The state-run BBC reports that the announcement to fully reconstruct the Garrison Church, or Garnisonkirche in Potsdam, which is one of the most significant churches of the German history, has created a country-wide debate. ... More


Montevideo, September 17 (PL-RHC) -- President José Mujica has enacted a law that facilitates obtaining Uruguayan residency for those born in member-states of the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) and for Uruguayan relatives born abroad.... More


Washington, September 16 (RHC)-- The Barack Obama administration has launched what it calls the first strikes of its expanded military campaign against the Islamic State. The Pentagon says U.S. warplanes bombed Islamic State positions south of Baghdad in support of Iraqi forces under fire. ... More


Caracas, September 16 (RHC) -– A video of a conference surfaced on Monday showing Venezuelan opposition activists planning terrorist activities against the government of President Nicolas Maduro.... More


Washington, September 16 (RHC)-- The United States announced Tuesday it will send 3,000 military troops to help tackle the Ebola outbreak as part of a ramped-up plan, including a major deployment in Liberia, the country where the epidemic is spiraling out of control. ... More


La Paz, September 16 (RHC) – Bolivian President Evo Morales is the clear favorite to win the general elections on October 12th, a new UNITEL poll shows.... More


Kabul, September 16 (RHC)-- Taliban militants have attacked a convoy of NATO fuel tankers in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar Province bordering Pakistan. According to Afghan officials, NATO trucks were blown up near the Torkham border crossing in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar Province on Tuesday. ... More


La Paz Expands Cable Car System

La Paz, September 16 (RHC) -– Bolivian President Evo Morales on Monday inaugurated the country's latest addition to its cable car system, which connects the city of El Alto with Southern La Paz, the multinational news channel teleSUR reports.... More


Tripoli, September 16 (RHC)-- Hundreds of migrants are feared dead after several shipwrecks in recent days off the coasts of Africa. ... More


Washington, September 15 (RHC)-- The United States says it will not coordinate future airstrikes on ISIL terrorists inside Syria despite warnings by Damascus that any unauthorized strike on its soil is an act of aggression. "We're not going to coordinate it with Syria... it's not a cooperative effort," U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said during an interview aired Sunday with CBS News. ... More


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