Athens, September 11 (RHC)-- At least 22,500 asylum seekers have been registered in the Greek island of Lesbos since the beginning of the week, the country's police officials say. The officials said on Thursday that the figure represents refugees who have been registered since Monday evening.... More
Mexico City, September 11 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Mexico has decided to join the Latin American trend to give shelter to Syrian refugees, according to a statement on Thursday by the Foreign Minister Claudia Ruiz Massieu.... More
Bogotá, September 11 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The Colombian congress debated Thursday which measures it will take to help municipalities that will soon face water shortages due to droughts caused by El Niño phenomenon.... More
Mexico City, September 11 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The suicide rate in Mexico has been increasing since the year 2000, and in 2013 the rate was up to five out 100,000 inhabitants, the National Institute of Statistics (INEGI) said Thursday. ... More
Caracas, September 11 (teleSUR-RHC)-- A Venezuelan court has sentenced opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez to over 13 years and nine months in prison. Lopez was accused of public incitement to violence and association to commit crimes.... More
La Paz, September 11 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Bolivia's President Evo Morales said he was confident about the International Court of Justice's (ICJ) competence on ruling the territorial dispute between Bolivia and Chile.... More
Santiago de Chile, September 11 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Aucán Huilcamán, head of the Council of All the Lands, announced that he will convoke a Constituent Assembly in November to set up autonomous “self-government” in the short term in response to the systematic failure of government negotiations the Mapuche people, reported El Ciudadano newspaper on Thursday. ... More
Budapest, September 10 (RHC)-- Newly-released data show that police in Hungary have in a single day captured a record number of 3,321 refugees crossing into the country from Serbia. Data published on the police website on Thursday indicated that the number of the Wednesday detentions was above the 3,313 arrivals made last Thursday. ... More
Caracas, September 10 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Venezuelan Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez will meet with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to discuss the closure of Venezuela's border with Colombia.... More
Washington, September 10 (RHC)-- U.S. Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton says she wouldn't think twice about launching a war against Iran should the Islamic Republic violate the nuclear agreement. Speaking to a Washington-based think tank, Clinton said: “I will not hesitate to take military action if Iran attempts to obtain a nuclear weapon.” ... More
Moscow, September 10 (RHC)-- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says Moscow will continue helping Damascus in order to avoid a repetition of the Libyan scenario in Syria. ... More
Washington, September 10 (RHC)-- A new study has revealed that the Barack Obama administration has carried out ten times more assassination drone strikes than the George W. Bush administration which preceded it. ... More
Tehran, September 10 (RHC)-- As Iran’s nuclear issue is resolved following a historic agreement with the global powers, the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) has called for the establishment of a nuclear weapons-free zone in the Middle East. ... More
London, September 10 (RHC)-- The United States had planned to topple the Syrian government long before conflict broke out in the country in 2011, says WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. ... More
Damascus, September 10 (RHC)-- The Daesh terrorist group usually executes prisoners and releases gruesome videos of their executions over social media, but -- in its latest despicable and inhumane act of terror -- the group has put a Chinese and a Norwegian up "for sale." ... More
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