Bogotá, February 3 (RHC)-- Colombian legislator Ángela María Robledo, and the General Secretary of the Episcopal Conference Darío Echeverri have called on the government and the National Liberation Army (ELN) to take the necessary steps towards engaging in official peace negotiations as soon as possible.... More
Bogota, February 3 (RHC-teleSUR) -- Former Colombian lawmaker and human right activist Piedad Cordoba raised awareness Tuesday on the longstanding humanitarian crisis that affects the residents of the coastal province of La Guajira, threatening to extinguish the indigenous people of Wayu. ... More
Bogota, February 3 (RHC-teleSUR) -- The Colombian government and the ELN (National Liberation Army) rebels are having a hard time getting peace talks off the ground, with both sides accusing the other of stalling negotiations in the past several days. ... More
Moscow, February 3 (RHC-teleSUR) -- Venezuela’s Minister of Petroleum and Mining and President of the state-run oil company PDVSA, Eulogio del Pino met Boris Ivanov, Vice President of Gazprombank, on Tuesday, in order to discuss the situation of the world oil market and agreed on the possibility of carrying out a joint effort to stabilize the international price of oil. ... More
Geneva, February 3 (RHC)-- The United Nations special envoy for Syria has warned of a total failure of the Syria peace talks as the main opposition coalition announced that it would not attend a planned meeting with the envoy. ... More
Athens, February 3 (RHC)-- Greek farmers have staged a blockade on a main highway leading to the capital, Athens, in protest against proposed tax hikes by the government. Dozens of tractors closed the highway linking Thessaloniki to Athens and traffic came to a standstill for six hours with farmers threatening to extend the protest for 24 hours if necessary. ... More
Ramallah, February 3 (RHC)-- Israeli military forces have abducted at least 17 Palestinians in separate raids across the Palestinian territories. Local media reported that Israeli troops arrested 13 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and four fishermen off the coast of the besieged Gaza Strip on Wednesday. ... More
Washington, February 3 (RHC)-- The U.S. Defense Department will seek more than $13 billion over the next five years to fund the development and production of new submarines to carry nuclear ballistic missiles. ... More
Ramallah, February 3 (RHC)-- Israeli forces Tuesday demolished more Palestinian residential buildings in the occupied West Bank, south of the city of Hebron. ... More
Moscow, February 3 (RHC)-- Russia has imposed a travel ban on five former law-enforcement officials from the United States as a retaliatory measure against Washington for a similar action. ... More
Moscow, February 3 (RHC)-- Russia has accused UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond of "dangerously" spreading misinformation about Moscow’s role in Syria. On Tuesday, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova referred to Hammond's remarks on Moscow's air campaign against terrorists in Syria as a “dangerous stove piping of disinformation.” ... More
Dallas, February 3 (RHC)-- Officials in Texas have reported the first case of Zika virus contracted in the United States, saying it was sexually transmitted. If confirmed, it marks only the second known case of Zika transmission through sexual contact. ... More
Des Moines, February 3 (RHC)-- The final results from the Iowa Democratic caucus show Hillary Clinton beating Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders by just 0.2 percent, with 49.8 percent compared to 49.6 percent for Sanders. ... More
New York, February 2 (RHC)-- Venezuela's Ambassador to the UN Rafael Ramírez has said that his country will support ongoing efforts at the UN Security Council to achieve peace in Colombia. ... More
Buenos Aires, February 2 (RHC-teleSUR) -- Argentinean Finance Secretary Luis Caputo arrived in New York Monday to begin negotiations with holdout creditors, known as the “vulture funds.”... More
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