At least 20 Palestinians have been shot and injured as Israeli forces stormed a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, the Palestinian Health Ministry says. ... More
Haitian lawmakers have chosen an opposition senator to serve as interim president for 120 days after disputed elections left the country without a president.... More
Pentagon officials say they have stepped up airstrikes against ISIL in Afghanistan, launching about 20 airstrikes in the eastern region of Afghanistan over the last three weeks. ... More
In Australia, two women hung from a bridge and unfurled a giant banner over a Melbourne freeway reading "Let Them Stay," as a protest against the government's plans to relocate 267 asylum seekers from Australia to detention camps on Nauru. ... More
Venezuela’s Supreme Court (TSJ) has confirmed that an emergency economic decree was now in place, allowing President Nicolas Maduro special powers to tackle the country's financial crisis.... More
Negotiators have agreed to a cessation of hostilities in Syria set to begin in a week and to provide rapid humanitarian access to besieged Syrian towns. The agreement on Friday came following a marathon meeting in Munich aimed at resurrecting peace talks that collapsed last week. ... More
Israeli military forces have demolished more than 40 Palestinian houses and residential structures in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank as the Tel Aviv regime presses ahead with its land expropriation policies to uproot Palestinians.... More
A UN human rights expert has slammed Israel for using excessive force against Palestinian protesters amid ongoing tensions between the two sides in the occupied territories. ... More
Ecuador’s Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño has criticized British Prime Minister David Cameron for his response to the recent ruling by the United Nations regarding WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. ... More
A U.S. court has ordered the State Department to release thousands of more Hillary Clinton's e-mails during her term as secretary of state by the end of this month. ... More
Spanish police have stormed the houses and offices of a former top official and a corporate executive as part of an investigation into high-level corruption. ... More
The Daesh terrorist group has used chemical weapons in its attacks and is capable of making small quantities of the deadly gases, says the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director. ... More
Thousands of campesinos took to the streets in Guatemala on Wednesday and blocked traffic in the capital city to put pressure on President Jimmy Morales to make political and economic reforms to benefit rural workers, local media has reported.... More
The Haitian National Assembly has announced that it will elect a transitional president on Sunday, February 14th, exactly one week after former President Michel Martelly officially stepped down from office, local legislative sources announced Wednesday.... More
Ernesto Samper, General Secretary of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) has presented Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro with the organization's report on the December 6th elections in the South American country.... More
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- UNDP says 1.74 million Palestinians pushed into poverty since Israel's genocidal war on Gaza
- Díaz-Canel meets with the general director of UNIDO
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- Venezuelan president says coercive measures sought to prevent the construction of an alternative economic model
