Brasilia, October 25 (RHC) – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has censured alleged spying by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) on German Chancellor Angela Merkel's phone communications. ... More
London, October 25 (RHC)-- A new document by U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals that Washington has monitored the telephone conversations of 35 world leaders. The London-based newspaper The Guardian reported that officials from the White House, the U.S. Department of Defense, and the State Department gave the world leaders’ numbers to the National Security Agency. ... More
Damascus, October 25 (RHC)-- Syria's Foreign Ministry says the Syrians are the only ones to choose the leader of the country. The ministry published a statement on Wednesday to react to an earlier meeting by the so-called Friends of Syria in London, saying no foreign party would be involved in deciding the country's leadership. ... More
Buenos Aires, October 25 (RHC) -- Argentina will deploy more than 90,000 troops to safeguard next Sunday's mid-term legislative elections, the defense ministry said on Thursday.... More
Washington, October 25 (RHC)-- A U.S. foreign policy analyst says the U.S. spying activities across the globe continue because its Western allies do not object to it, although they are also victimized. ... More
Mexico City, October 25 (RHC) -- At least one person was killed and 51 others injured Thursday in a candy factory blast in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, capital of the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua, local reports said.... More
Brussels, October 25 (RHC)-- Members of the European Parliament (EP) voted to suspend a security agreement with the United States, amid growing concerns over US spying activities against Europe. ... More
Montevideo, October 25 (RHC) -- Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes on Thursday vowed to step up the presence of armed forces in the country's northern region after the Paraguayan People's Army (EPP) guerrilla group carried out an attack on police patrols there Wednesday night.... More
Brussels, October 25 (RHC)-- Acting Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas has called on Western companies to respect the international law by pulling out of settlements in the occupied West Bank. ... More
London, October 25 (RHC)-- The U.S. National Security Agency monitored nearly 125 billion phone calls from around the world in just one month, including around three billion calls inside the United States, according to documents released by whistleblower Edward J. Snowden. ... More
New Delhi, October 25 (RHC)-- Three men in India have gang-raped a 13-year-old girl and killed her afterwards by setting her on fire in yet another appalling case of rape-and-murder in the South Asian country. ... More
Montego Bay, Jamaica, October 24 (RHC) -- The 2nd Meeting of Ministers of Energy of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) opens today at the Convention Center in Montego Bay, Jamaica. ... More
Berlin, October 24 (RHC)-- German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called U.S. President Barack Obama after learning that the U.S. National Security Agency, the NSA, was reportedly spying on her. Merkel's spokesman Steffen Seibert said in a statement issued on Wednesday that the German leader "made clear that she unequivocally disapproves of such practices, should they be confirmed, and regards them as completely unacceptable."... More
Rome, October 24 (RHC)-- An Italian judge has ordered former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to stand trial for the alleged bribery of a senator. Berlusconi is accused of paying Senator Sergio de Gregorio three million Euros to join his People of Freedom (PDL) Party in 2006 and help bring down the government of former Prime Minister Romano Prodi.... More
Caracas, October 24 (RHC) – Brazil will supply Venezuela with meat and grains, under a new agro-industrial cooperation agreement signed during the recent visit to Caracas by a Brazilian government delegation. ... More
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