Washington, January 30 (RHC)-- A new report based on files from whistleblower Edward Snowden has revealed U.S. and British intelligence have been secretly spying on electronic feeds from Israeli military drones and fighter jets under a program codenamed "Anarchist." ... More
Paris, January 30 (RHC)-- France says it will recognize a Palestinian state if efforts to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict come to nothing. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told a gathering of foreign diplomats that Paris has a responsibility as a permanent member of the UN Security Council to keep up efforts to find a solution between Israel and Palestine. ... More
Washington, January 30 (RHC)-- A U.S. government official has said that some of Hillary Clinton’s emails cannot be released since they are “too damaging” to national security. ... More
La Paz, January 29 (RHC)-- Bolivian Vice President Álvaro García Linera said the country's economy will continue to grow in the next five years, even if oil prices continue to fall.... More
Guatemala City, January 29 (RHC)-- Guatemala will host the 4th Special Meeting of Ministers and High Authorities of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) on Preventing and Combating Corruption, the country's Foreign Ministry has announced.... More
Port-au-Prince, January 29 (RHC)-- The Haitian government has called on citizens to maintain calm to preserve democracy, promising to respect and take into account the people's proposals and demands to solve the current political crisis.... More
Port-au-Prince, January 29 (RHC)-- Amid an ongoing political crisis in Haiti, the president of the country's Electoral Council, Pierre-Louis Opont, has resigned. Opont announced his decision to President Michel Martelly in a letter dated Thursday, but it was not released to the media until Friday. ... More
Quito, January 29 (RHC-teleSUR) -- Ecuador will send 700 troops to a coastal province to help the Health Ministry prevent the spread of the zika virus, which has already infected 22 Ecuadoreans and may have affected 67 more. ... More
Guatemala City, January 29 (RHC-teleSUR) -- A top presidential advisor in Guatemala accused of dictatorship-era crimes and human rights abuses will continue to enjoy immunity from trial as the Supreme Court ruled Thursday not to grant prosecutors’ request to strip his immunity.... More
San Salvador, January 29 (RHC-teleSUR) -- The former president of El Salvador facing charges for corruption, Francisco Flores, has suffered “irreversible neurological impairment” according to medical reports released Thursday, which is likely to impact the former head of state’s ability to stand trial for money laundering and embezzlement.... More
Bogota, January 29 (RHC-teleSUR) -- The FARC urged the European Union Thursday to cut the group from its list of terrorist organizations in the name of supporting the group’s integration into Colombian society and politics after a peace agreement with the government is finalized in the coming months.... More
Buenos Aires, January 29 (RHC-teleSUR) -- The Argentinean government announced Thursday that it is creating a nationwide registry of soccer “hooligans” to control the admission of fans at soccer matches, part of an effort to prevent violence that has plagued the sport. The database will include the personal information of each person that has been banned from attending matches and the reason behind that decision.... More
Damascus, January 29 (RHC)-- Syrian army soldiers, backed by fighters from allied popular defense groups, have liberated two villages from the grips of foreign-backed Takfiri militants in the country’s northwestern Aleppo Province. ... More
Geneva, January 29 (RHC)-- The World Health Organization has warned up to four million people in the Americas could be infected with Zika virus by the end of this year. ... More
Helsinki, January 29 (RHC)-- Finland is set to expel tens of thousands of the asylum seekers who arrived in the country last year amid the ongoing refugee crisis in Europe. Paivi Nerg, Finnish Interior Ministry’s administrative director, announced on Thursday that Helsinki expects to expel nearly 20,000 refugees out of the 32,000 it received in 2015. ... More
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