Mexico City, April 4 (RHC) -- China and Latin America led the global growth in wind energy in 2014, according to the latest report published by the Global Wind Energy Council.... More


Two murals made by Cuban artists will be on display at the Summit of the Peoples, set to run parallel to the Summit of the Americas on April 10th and 11th in Panama City... More


United Nations, April 3 (RHC)-- The United Nations says at least 519 people, including women and children, have so far lost their lives in two weeks of violence in Yemen, as Saudi Arabia continues to target the country with military strikes.... More


Mexico City, April 03 (teleSUR-RHC) In a move widely criticized by supporters, some of the parents of the 43 forcibly disappeared students accepted a help offer on Tuesday from a Mexican drug cartel known as Los Rojos. ... More


Lausanne, April 3 (RHC)-- After eight days of talks in Switzerland, Iran and world powers have reached a framework agreement on curbing Iran’s nuclear program for at least a decade. In return, the United States and Europe plan to lift economic sanctions on Iran.... More


Nairobi, April 3 (RHC)-- The death toll from an attack by al-Shabab militants on a university in the town of Garissa in eastern Kenya has risen to 147, Kenyan government officials say. The officials said that security forces killed all four attackers who had taken hundreds of students hostage at the Garissa University College campus on Thursday.... More


Mexico City, April 03 (teleSUR-RHC) The Ecological Green Party of Mexico (PVEM) was fined on Thursday by the Mexican electoral authority for distributing propaganda printed on material that was deemed to be unfriendly to the environment. ... More


Baghdad, April 3 (RHC)-- Police and medical officials in Iraq say at least 11 people have been killed and over two dozen others injured in separate bomb explosions that struck areas in the capital, Baghdad.... More


Abuja, April 3 (RHC)-- At least five people have been killed and 15 others wounded in an explosion in the northeastern Nigerian city of Gombe, witnesses say. According to reports, the bomb went off near a bus station on Thursday.... More


Berlin, April 3 (RHC)-- The second black box from the doomed Germanwings passenger plane that recently crashed in the French Alps has been recovered following a nine-day search.... More


Damascus, April 3 (RHC)-- In Syria, Islamic State fighters have taken over most of a massive camp for Palestinian refugees on the outskirts of Damascus. Yarmouk is home to some 18,000 people and has repeatedly been stuck in the crossfire of Syria’s civil war.... More


Dallas, April 3 (RHC)-- Dozens of immigrant women detained at the Karnes Family Detention Camp in Texas have launched a hunger strike, saying their children’s health is suffering behind bars.... More


Geneva, April 3 (RHC)-- UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Zeid al-Hussein has expressed concern over the acts of terror committed by Nigeria-based Takfiri Boko Haram militants, saying the terrorists are using children as “human bombs.”... More


Philadelphia, April 3 (RHC)-- Imprisoned journalist and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal has been transferred back to prison after he was taken to the intensive care unit at Schuylkill Medical Center in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, following a blackout from diabetic shock.... More


BEIJING, April 3 (Xinhua) -- China helped 10 countries evacuate 225 of their citizens in conflict-ridden Yemen on Thursday, including 176 from Pakistan, 29 from Ethiopia, five from Singapore, four from Poland, three from Italy, three from Germany, two from Britain, one from Canada, one from Ireland and one from Yemen, said a spokesperson from the Foreign Ministry on Friday.... More


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