Mexico City, March 5 (RHC-teleSUR), -- Latin American governments have pledged to work toward ending hunger within a decade while tackling an epidemic of rising obesity in the region — itself considered a form of malnutrition, according to Reuters on Friday.... More
United Nations, March 5 (RHC)-- Latest figures released by the United Nations show that acts of terrorism and violence killed 670 people in Iraq in the month of February. According to the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), 1,290 others were injured.... More
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez strongly rejected statements by President Barack Obama, who renewed an executive order issued last March that declares Venezuela “an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the U.S.”... More
Russian President Vladimir Putin told the leaders of Britain, France, Germany and Italy during a conference call Friday that the Syrian government’s decision to hold legislative elections in April does not contradict the peace process.... More
Israeli military forces have reportedly arrested 16 Palestinians during separate operations across the occupied West Bank.... More
On Friday, a group of progressive organizations in El Salvador demonstrated against the murder of Honduran Indigenous leader Berta Cáceres.... More
Russia warns that the war raging in Yemen could be far from over due to the obstacles being thrown in the way of its cessation by the Saudi-backed fugitive Yemeni government. ... More
UN planning experts arrived in Colombia to pave the way for supervision of the bilateral cease-fire the government and guerrilla will decide on together.... More
In news from Japan, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said he will temporarily halt construction work at the site of a proposed U.S. military base on the island of Okinawa. ... More
Twenty-nine percent women and 18 percent men in Latin America and the Caribbean suffer from obesity, according to the Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Jose Graziano da Silva.... More
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro recalled today the legacy of late President Hugo Chavez, on the third anniversary of his death, to be marked on March 5th.... More
Mitt Romney, the U.S. Republican nominee for the 2012 White House race, has implored Republican voters to reject the candidacy of Donald Trump, who is "a phony, a fraud."... More
Washington's intention to overthrow Syria's legitimate and democratically-elected President Bashar al-Assad results from his refusal to back a Qatari gas pipeline project, an attorney says.... More
As part of an ongoing investigation into potential financial fraud, Spain's Princess Cristina, sixth in line to throne, has stood trial, denying wrongdoing both on her part and that of her husband, another prime suspect in the case.... More
William Schaap, a U.S. radical author, lawyer and publisher has died. Together with his wife and partner, Ellen Ray, who died a few months ago, Schaap published the CovertAction Information Bulletin.... More
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