Quito, Aug 10 (RHC) Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso decreed Thursday three days of national mourning in view of the shock caused throughout the country by the murder of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, and declared a new state of emergency.... More


Havana, Aug 10 (RHC) Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will ask the country's President Arif Alvi to dissolve the National Assembly, leaving an interim government in power until general elections are called for the end of this year.... More


Santiago de Chile, Aug 10 (RHC) The Chilean Senate on Wednesday unanimously approved the recognition of the Selk'nam as one of the main native peoples of the country, which also implies compensation for the genocide they were subjected to.... More


Quito, Aug 10 (RHC) Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso called for an urgent meeting of the Security Cabinet this evening following the murder of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio.... More


Quito, Aug 10 (RHC) Interior Minister Juan Zapata confirmed the murder of Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio. The murder took place on Wednesday evening in the style of a hired assassination, at a political rally that was taking place north of Quito.... More


Santiago de Chile, Aug 10 (RHC) The Santiago City Council decided Wednesday to rename several streets, squares and bridges to pay tribute to the victims of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship, 50 years after the coup d'état in Chile.... More


Buenos Aires, Aug 10 (RHC) Argentine Economy Minister and presidential pre-candidate of the Union for the Homeland -UP-, Sergio Massa, warned Wednesday that the opposition only offers adjustments, repression and cuts for retirees and workers.... More


Havana, Aug 10 (RHC) The victory of a Venezuelan lawsuit in Portugal will allow the South American nation to recover more than 1.7 billion dollars so far blocked in Novo Banco.... More


Havana, Aug 10 (RHC) Ecuador's Interior Minister Juan Zapata confirmed Wednesday that the police rescued Maria Antonieta Touriz, dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Guayaquil, alive.... More


Havana, Aug 10 (RHC) Spain's State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) reported Wednesday the highest temperatures of the third heat wave affecting that country, where several points exceeded 40 degrees Celsius.... More


Rome, August 9 (RHC) The Italian Coast Guard reported a new shipwreck near the southern coast of the island of Lampedusa, where 41 migrants died and only four survived, who were rescued in the last hours.... More


United Nations, August 9 (RHC) United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres welcomed on Wednesday the agreement between the organization and the Government of Syria to use the Bab al-Hawa border crossing for humanitarian purposes for another six months.... More


Mexico City, August 9 (RHC) Mexico's Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Alicia Bárcena, will meet with her U.S. counterpart, Antony Blinken, in Washington on Wednesday, in her first official visit as Foreign Minister.... More


United Nations, Aug 9 (RHC) The role of young people as agents of change is the focus of Wednesday's celebration of the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples organized by the United Nations.... More


Lima, Aug 9 (RHC) More than half of the members of the congressional bench of the center-right Acción Popular party resigned on Tuesday, confirming the term "desbande" used in the media for the crisis.... More


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