Berlin, February 19 (RHC)-- Greece has formally asked the eurozone for a six-month extension of a loan agreement as it seeks to revise the terms of an international bailout. ... More
Buenos Aires, February 19 (RHC-teleSUR) -- A march convened Wednesday marking one month since prosecutor Alberto Nisman was found dead is part of a political operation against the government, Argentinian prosecutor Graciela Camaño told teleSUR English. ... More
Freetown, February 19 (RHC)-- Healthcare workers in Ebola-stricken Sierra Leone go door-to-door in a two-week search for Ebola patients in the western part of the country. After a rise in cases affiliated to unsafe burials and patients being hidden from authorities, health workers started their final search on Wednesday deep into remote parts of Port Loko district, the fourth most populous district in the country, which is located in the east of the capital, Freetown. ... More
La Paz, February 19 (RHC-EFE) -– Bolivia is planning a broad-based nuclear program that will help diversify the country’s energy matrix and also bring benefits to other areas including the health sector and agro-industry, the government said Wednesday.... More
Berlin, February 19 (RHC)-- Germany is witnessing yet another round of strikes by train drivers as talks over a long-running wage dispute derail. The German Train Drivers' Union (GDL) announced nationwide strikes on Wednesday after talks with rail operator Deutsche Bahn (DB) failed to bear any results, Deutsche Welle reported. ... More
Bogotá, February 19 (RHC-Efe) – The Colombian Anti-drug Police seized 3.2 tons of cocaine in the Caribbean port city of Cartagéna, from where the drug was to have been shipped to Veracruz, Mexico, the department announced Wednesday.... More
Athens, February 18 (RHC)-- Greece plans to request an extension on its current loan agreement with international creditors without the other conditions of a full-blown bailout, a source in Brussels says. According to the source in the de facto EU capital on Tuesday, Greece will seek up to a six-month extension on Wednesday, the conditions of which are currently under negotiation. ... More
Buenos Aires, February 18 (RHC-teleSUR) -- Argentina’s foreign minister has asked his U.S. counterpart to include the investigation into the 1994 bombing of the Buenos Aires AMIA Jewish Center in the nuclear negotiations with Iran.... More
Cairo, February 18 (RHC)-- A Libyan commercial flight heading for the Turkish city of Istanbul was forced to return to a Libyan airport after Egypt allegedly denied access to overfly its airspace. ... More
Abuja, February 18 (RHC)-- Two separate bombing attacks in Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno have claimed at least 38 lives while Boko Haram leader has vowed to disrupt the country's upcoming elections. ... More
London, February 18 (RHC)-- Pro-Palestinian activists have occupied a UK-based Israeli-owned arms manufacturing factory, forcing its closure. The Kent-based Instro Precision, a subsidiary of Israeli arms company Elbit Systems, was occupied on Tuesday, when more than a dozen activists took up positions on the roof and at the entrance. ... More
Caracas, February 18 (RHC-PL) -- Venezuela's ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS), Roy Chaderton, has rejected statements by the OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza on the situation in the country.... More
Detroit, February 18 (RHC)-- A U.S. federal judge has rejected a bid for a new trial from a Palestinian activist convicted of immigration fraud. Rasmea Odeh was found guilty of concealing her conviction on bombing charges by an Israeli military court more than 40 years ago. ... More
Lima, February 18 (RHC-Mercopress) -- Peru and the United States have signed a Memorandum of Intention on Technical and Promotional Cooperation for Strengthening Trade Facilitation Capacities, with the aim of fostering development of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) through training and professionalization of human resources.... More
Tel Aviv, February 18 (RHC)-- The Israeli Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from the family of Rachel Corrie, the U.S. activist crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza nearly 12 years ago, as she tried to protect a Palestinian home from demolition. ... More
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