Brussels, June 24 (RHC)-- Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is meeting with European creditors today in Brussels in a bid to avoid default at the end of the month. ... More
Paris, June 24 (RHC)-- France has summoned its U.S. ambassador following revelations by WikiLeaks the United States has spied on the past three French presidents. ... More
Baghdad, June 24 (RHC)-- The International Organization for Migration has put the number of people displaced in Iraq since a new wave of militancy began in the country in 2014 at three million. ... More
London, June 24 (RHC)-- British documents from Edward Snowden reveal how U.S. officials ordered a drone strike in Yemen to kill a doctor they believed was working with al-Qaeda in 2012. ... More
Washington, June 24 (RHC)-- The Barack Obama administration has released what it calls one of the most comprehensive analyses to date on the impact of climate change. ... More
Washington, June 24 (RHC)-- Confidence in police forces in the United States has plummeted to the lowest level in 22 years, with only half of Americans expressing confidence in the institution, according to a new poll. ... More
Philadelphia, June 24 (RHC)-- A leading U.S. flag maker says it will stop producing Confederate flags in the wake of a racially motivated mass shooting in a South Carolina Black church. ... More
London, June 24 (RHC)-- The Tory government is considering plans to axe financial support for the poorest students as part of widespread cuts to public services and key British institutions. Under the last Tory led government, when they were in coalition with the Liberal Democrats, they significantly raised the price of university education, slapping a price tag of £9,000 per year for students in England. Former Liberal Democrat leader and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg spent much of the 2010 campaign promising not to raise tuition fees. They tripled under the coalition government. ... More
Washington, June 24 (RHC)-- Female military veterans in the United States commit suicide at nearly six times the rate of other women in the country, with suicide rates highest among young veterans, new government research shows. Their suicide rate is so high that it approaches that of male veterans, a finding that surprised researchers because men generally are far more likely than women to commit suicide. ... More
Washington, June 24 (RHC)-- Twenty percent of young women who attended college in the United States during the past four years say they were sexually assaulted, according to a new poll. Many others endured attempted attacks, or suspect that someone violated them while they were unable to consent, according to a Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation poll. ... More
Santiago de Chile, June 24 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The Chilean teachers union announced it will meet on Wednesday to analyze whether they will continue the indefinite strike declared over two weeks ago after lawmakers and government officials committed to make changes to a new teaching career bill. The law would modify the teaching career system and its wages, implementing an evaluation process which would determine the salary assigned to each teacher. ... More
Bogota, June 24 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The former commander of Colombia’s National Army, General Mario Montoya, was called in for questioning on Tuesday over his alleged role in thousands of extrajudicial killings carried out by the country's security forces to be presented as guerrilla fighters killed during clashes. ... More
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
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