Bogota, June 24 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Coffee cultivators and other farmers threatened to initiate a mass national strike in the second half of July if the government continues to ignore their demands. ... More


Lima, June 24 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Peruvian Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani’s personal investments are tied with one of the country’s largest construction companies, a local investigation revealed on Monday. Journalist Laura Grados released a second article in her investigation series, published in the local Diario 16, on the leader of Opus Dei and prominent Catholic figure. ... More


Havana, June 24 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Ivan Marquez, a commander with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the member of the rebels' peace delegation, insisted that the time has come to “stop the war to prevent damages against the peace process and further useless victimization.” ... More


Mexico City, June 24 (teleSUR-RHC)-- LG electronics released a statement on Tuesday apologizing to Rosa Moreno, a Mexican woman and mother of six, who lost both hands while working the overnight shift in their production factory in Mexico four years ago. ... More


Damascus, June 23 (RHC)-- At least four civilians have been killed and several others injured in a car bomb attack carried out by foreign-sponsored militants in Syria's southwestern province of Dara'a, Press TV reports. ... More


Mexico City, June 23 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Over the last two years, Mexican law enforcement authorities have managed to locate less than one percent of all disappeared people in the country, according to a recent report by El Daily Post newspaper. ... More


Kabul, June 23 (RHC)-- In Afghanistan, government forces have reportedly retaken control of a key district near the northern city of Kunduz amid a renewed offensive by the Taliban. ... More


Washington, June 23 (RHC)-- The Pentagon has announced a U.S. airstrike in northern Iraq killed an operative with the self-proclaimed Islamic State. ... More


Damascus, June 23 (RHC)-- In Syria, Kurdish forces have reportedly ousted the self-proclaimed Islamic State from a key military base north of the ISIL-held stronghold of Raqqa. ... More


Brussels, June 23 (RHC)-- European creditors say a deal to prevent Greece from defaulting on its debts could be reached in the next 48 hours. ... More


Abuja, June 23 (RHC)-- Two teenage female bombers have detonated their explosives near a crowded mosque in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, killing about 30 people. ... More


Berlin, June 23 (RHC)-- U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter has praised Washington's decision to station heavy weaponry in Eastern Europe, and vowed the United States will defend its allies against Russia. ... More


Brussels, June 23 (RHC)-- The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is contemplating to boost its rapid response force in Europe to up to 40,000 troops, a 10-fold rise from the initial 4,000-strong force deployed in 2014, which will mostly be stationed near Russian borders. ... More


Damascus, June 23 (RHC)-- Kurdish forces have uncovered a 400-meter-long tunnel dug by ISIL Takfiri terrorists near the Turkish border with Syria. Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) found the uncompleted tunnel after they retook the Syrian border town of Tal Abyad last week, the Associated Press quoted YPG spokesman Redur Khalil as saying on Monday. ... More


Mayadeen, June 23 (RHC)-- ISIL Takfiri terrorists have hung two teenage boys in Syria for eating during daylight hours during the holy fasting month of Ramadan, a monitoring group says. According to residents of the village of Mayadeen in the eastern Deir Ezzor province, the terrorists hung the two young boys, both under 18, from a crossbar near a Takfiri police headquarters, the so-called the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights said on Monday. ... More


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