The death toll from devastating landslides triggered by massive torrential rains has risen to nearly three dozen in Sri Lanka. ... More
A U.S. B-52 strategic military plane has been destroyed after crashing at the U.S. airbase in the Western Pacific island of Guam. ... More
French President François Hollande and Greek officials have said the EgyptAir passenger jet that disappeared this morning en route from Paris to Cairo has crashed at sea.... More
Brazil’s suspended President Dilma Rousseff has given her first interview since her ouster to The Intercept's Glenn Greenwald, the journalist chosen by whistleblower Edward Snowden to reveal the U.S. government's electronic eavesdropping on the world... More
The prominent U.S. linguist, political analyst and writer, Noam Chomsky, has slammed the elite in Brazil, saying they carried out a soft coup against the democratically elected president.... More
Peruvian presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori announced on Wednesday that Joaquin Ramirez had resigned from her Fuerza Popular Party in a bid to calm an uproar following media reports that linked the two to money laundering.... More
From December 2012 to April this year, 7,556 people were kidnapped in Mexico, corresponding to an average of 184 people per month, 43 people per week and six daily, reported various non-profit organizations Wednesday.... More
Interim president of Brazil and parliamentary coup promoter Michel Temer has chosen a politician investigated for corruption and attempted murder as the new leader of the Lower House.... More
The infamous leader of the Sinaloa cartel could face charges from a number of federal prosecutors in the U.S. should he be extradited. ... More
The United Nations is disappearing traditional belief systems and enforcing its own superiority by privileging stiff bureaucracy over indigenous ways, Mayan leader Policarpio Chaj said in an interview with teleSUR on Wednesday... More
La Habana, 19 may (ACN) Con la firma de un plan de trabajo hasta el año 2017 para fomentar las relaciones económicas bilaterales, se inauguró este jueves la XXI Sesión del Comité de Cooperación Empresarial Cubano-Español, que reúne en La Habana a hombres de negocios de ambas naciones. ... More
The President of the Spanish Autonomous Community of Murcia, Pedro Antonio Sanchez, is paying an official visit to Cuba until May 22nd, according to the Cuban Foreign Ministry.... More
Top protocol, security and media officials for the governments of the countries in the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) are finalizing details in Havana for the 7th Summit of the organization.... More
Lawyers and legal experts from 27 countries have gathered here in Havana for the 8th Forum on International Law and Justice.... More
Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro described his country on Tuesday as being the target of not only a systematic aggression by "‘global imperialist forces," but also of destabilization efforts by the right-wing opposition.... More
