Caracas, January 31 (RHC-teleSUR) -- The Venezuelan ombudsman, Tarek Williams Saab, explained Friday that new regulations on security matters ensure human rights and safety at demonstrations.... More
Paris, January 31 (RHC)-- The number of anti-Muslim incidents has risen sharply in France since this month’s attack on satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, a leading Muslim group says. The French Council for the Muslim Religion said on Friday that 128 incidents or threats against Muslims were reported from January 7th through the 20th. The council went on to say this month’s number of attacks is more than all of last year’s. ... More
Buenos Aires, January 31 (RHC-PL) -- President Cristina Fernández urged all political forces in Argentina to have a calm year and hold elections in peace, as she announced a substantial increase in retirement pensions.... More
Washington, January 31 (RHC)-- In environmental news, U.S. President Barack Obama has announced a plan to designate 12 million acres in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as wilderness in an effort to ban oil and gas drilling in the area. ... More
Bogotá, January 31 (RHC-teleSUR) -- Around 800 members of Colombia’s right-wing Democratic Centre Party participated in a demonstration Friday outside the attorney general’s office in support of the party’s president and last year’s presidential candidate Oscar Ivan Zuluaga, who has been summoned to testify about his alleged role in an illegal spying scandal.... More
New York, January 31 (RHC)-- Google has revealed it secretly gave the U.S. government the e-mail messages and metadata of three top members of the whistleblowing organization WikiLeaks — investigations editor Sarah Harrison, section editor Joseph Farrell, and spokesperson Kristinn Hrafnsson, a longtime Icelandic journalist. ... More
Buenos Aires, January 31 (RHC-teleSUR) -- Argentinian Chief of Cabinet Jorge Capitanich accused U.S. Republican senator Marco Rubio of “imperialist behavior,” after the right-wing politician expressed doubts about the Argentinian government's ability to conduct the investigation into the death of the prosecutor Alberto Nisman.... More
Athens, January 31 (RHC)-- In a symbolic move, the new Greek government has hired almost 600 laid-off government cleaners, mostly women, who had been protesting outside the finance and economy ministries. They were laid off in 2013 as part of an austerity measure to meet demands by international lenders for the Greek bailout. ... More
Santiago de Chile, January 31 (RHC)-- Two former Chilean intelligence officials have been sentenced in the murders of Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi, two U.S. citizens who were killed shortly after the 1973 coup led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet. ... More
Lima, January 31 (RHC-teleSUR) -- In Peru, indigenous people have forced a production stoppage at 14 oil wells, adding up to some 3100 barrels of oil per day.... More
Hollywood, January 31 (RHC)-- The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee is reporting the release of the new Hollywood blockbuster American Sniper has led to an increase in threats against Muslims in the United States. ... More
Mexico City, January 31 (RHC-PL) -- The energy secretary (SENER) has opened an investigation into the causes of the accident at the maternity-infant hospital in Cuajimalpa, Mexico city, reported the institution.... More
San José, January 30 (RHC-Xinhua) -- Latin American leaders Thursday called for an end to the U.S. trade blockade against Cuba and adopted a Plan of Action for 2015 in a regional summit held in Costa Rica.... More
Kabul, January 30 (RHC)-- Three U.S. security contractors have been killed in a shooting incident in the Afghan capital, Kabul, a U.S. official says. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the U.S. military official said that an “insider attack” was carried out at the Kabul airport on Thursday. ... More
San José, January 30 (RHC-teleSUR) -- Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa outlined the progressive policies the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) will pursue in the coming year under his leadership during an address Thursday in which he accepted the pro tempore presidency of the regional bloc.... More
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