New Delhi, September 12 (RHC)-- At least 104 people have been killed and dozens of others injured after a gas cylinder exploded in a restaurant in central India, police officials say. The blast happened at around 8:30 a.m. local time (0300 GMT) on Saturday at a restaurant in Jhabua district of the central Madhya Pradesh State as dozens of office workers and schoolchildren were having breakfast, senior district police official Seema Alava told reporters. ... More
Bogotá, September 12 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The leader of Colombia’s second largest guerrilla group has made a revelation that could change the course of peace talks in Havana. In an interview with Brasil de Fato, Resumen Latinoamericano and Colombia Informa, National Liberation Army (ELN) head Nicolas Rodriguez Bautista, better known as “Gabino,” mentioned the hardly known state of his group's relationship with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).... More
Caracas, September 12 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro led a preliminary consulting seminar Friday for a “New Border of Peace” in Caracas. ... More
Caracas, September 12 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The Venezuelan government rejected comments by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday’s ruling by a Venezuelan court that found opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez guilty of inciting violence that led to the deaths of 43 people in 2014.... More
Bogotá, September 12 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Enrique Peñalosa, who served as mayor of Bogota, Colombia, from 1998 to 2001, emerged as the favorite in a new poll released Friday, which was conducted by Ipsos Napoleon Franco for a consortium of Colombian media outlets.... More
Roseau, September 11 (PL-RHC)-- Dominica remains on high alert for possible floods and landslides by the remains of a tropical storm, which could worsen the disaster caused by the Erika storm.... More
Quito, September 12 (PL-RHC)-- Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said Friday that Ecuador is still an extremely unequal nation and two percent of the big families own 90 percent of the companies.... More
La Paz, September 12 (PL-RHC)-- The Bolivian Government devotes 14 percent of the State general budget to education, placing it as the second country in Latin America after Cuba with that amount.... More
Sanaa, September 11 (RHC)-- Saudi Arabia has bombarded several areas across Yemen, as the United Nations says Yemeni parties have agreed to hold peace talks to end the conflict in the impoverished Arab country.... More
Quito, September 11 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa described the border situation with Colombia as “tough” as contraband affected both sides of the frontier, as he announced Thursday that new measures to control imports will be implemented along the line that divides his country from the neighboring nation.... More
Sanaa, September 11 (RHC)-- At least four people have lost their lives in a U.S. assassination drone strike in the Yemeni province of Hadhramaut. A local official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said on Thursday that the drone hit a sports utility vehicle near the provincial capital city of al-Mukalla, located some 800 kilometers southeast of the capital, Sanaa, the night before.... More
Washington, September 11 (RHC)-- U.S. President Barack Obama has ordered his administration to prepare to take in at least 10,000 Syrian refugees over the next year, according to White House spokesman Josh Earnest.... More
United Nations, September 11 (RHC)-- The United Nations has approved a resolution calling for the hoisting of the Palestinian flag at the world body’s headquarters in New York. On Thursday, the UN General Assembly decided that the flags of the non-member observer states of Palestine and the Holy See "shall be raised at UN Headquarters and United Nations Offices following the flags of the member states."... More
United Nations, September 11 (RHC)-- The United Nations Security Council has approved the UN chief's recommendations for launching an international investigation to determine who was responsible for the deadly chemical attacks in Syria.... More
London, September 11 (RHC)-- British Prime Minister David Cameron says his country “remains staunch" in its "defense of Israel." Cameron made the pledge while meeting with visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at 10 Downing Street in London. ... More
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