Mexico City, June 25 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Thousands of dissident teachers took to the streets of Mexico City on Wednesday, declaring a 24-hour strike to protest against the education reform promoted by President Enrique Peña Nieto. ... More
Washington, June 25 (RHC)-- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to Vienna on Friday to hold talks with officials on Iran’s nuclear energy program in a final push to seal a historic agreement with Tehran, the U.S. State Department says. ... More
Washington, June 25 (RHC)-- Documents provided by the former U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) contractor have shown that British intelligence service aided Washington's controversial targeted killing outside recognized war zones, two reports say. ... More
Washington, June 25 (RHC)-- The U.S. has told France it's no longer spying on its leaders following disclosures by the group WikiLeaks. Documents published this week show the National Security Agency spied on President François Hollande and his two predecessors from 2006 to 2012, including listening to and recording cellphone conversations. ... More
Washington, June 25 (RHC)-- The U.S. Senate has given final approval to granting President Obama "fast-track" authority to advance the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal through Congress. The secretive accord involves 12 countries and nearly 40 percent of the global economy. Wednesday’s vote followed months of White House lobbying and a standoff with congressional Democrats. ... More
Islamabad, June 25 (RHC)-- The Pakistani government declares a state of emergency as the ongoing relentless heatwave sweeping Sindh Province in the country’s south claims over 800 lives in less than a week. ... More
Washington, June 25 (RHC)-- The U.S. Justice Department is expected to file hate crimes charges against Dylann Roof, the white supremacist arrested for last week’s massacre at a historic South Carolina church. ... More
Paris, June 25 (RHC)-- French lawmakers have passed a controversial law granting intelligence services sweeping powers to spy on citizens. The new legislation, approved in the country’s National Assembly on Wednesday, gives authorities the right to monitor digital and mobile communications of anyone linked to a "terrorist" inquiry without prior judicial authorization. ... More
London, June 25 (RHC)-- British police forces have clashed with disabled protesters, pushing them out of the Houses of Parliament. The protesters were trying to make their way into Prime Minister's Questions, a constitutional convention held every Wednesday, when clashes broke out. ... More
Lima, June 25 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The exhumation of a 30-year-old mass grave high in the Andean slopes of Peru's Ayacucho region has uncovered the bodies of 18 people thought to have been killed in the 1980s, Peru's La Republica newspaper reported. ... More
Quito, June 25 (teleSUR-RHC)-- After weeks of often-violent right-wing protests over proposed tax changes that would affect only a very small minority of affluent Ecuadoreans, over 15,000 leaders from Ecuador’s rural governments are carrying out an extraordinary assembly on Thursday in support of the government. ... More
Guatemala City, June 25 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Guatemala's Constitutional Court has approved public hearings to receive arguments for and against the immunity-stripping process against President Perez Molina, Guatemala's Prensa Libre reported on Wednesday. ... More
Mexico City, June 25 (teleSUR-RHC)-- A Mexican mayor-elect was killed on Tuesday night at a bus station in the municipality of Jerecuaro, located in the lowlands of the central northern state of Guanajuato. ... More
Santo Domingo, June 25 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Tensions have been mounting in the northern border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti, as Dominican officials start enforcing new strict immigration policies that could see up to 30,000 Haitians deported. ... More
Gaza City, June 24 (RHC)-- Israeli warplanes have carried out a number of airstrikes on an area in the north of the besieged Gaza Strip. The early Wednesday attack on the coastal enclave followed reports of an alleged earlier rocket attack from the Gaza Strip. There have been no reports of damages or casualties for the alleged rocket attack from Gaza. ... More
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