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The secretary-general of the United Nations (UN) is deeply saddened to learn of the death of one member of the United Nations Department of Safety and Security and the injury of another when their UN vehicle was hit as they were on their way to the European hospital in Rafah on Monday, said Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for António Guterres. In the past 24 hours, the Israeli offensive in the Gaza S...

The Brazilian government pledged some 10 billion dollars to rebuild Rio Grande do Sul, where the delivery of humanitarian aid was intensified on Thursday to help the population without housing, electricity or water after the historic floods. Extreme poverty in Peru during Boluarte's government already exceeds pandemic levels Overall, the official poverty figure in the country governed by Dina...

Russian President Vladimir Putin presided over Thursday the events held on the 79th anniversary of the Victory Day over Nazi Germany in World War II, which included the traditional military parade in Moscow's Red Square.  Moscow's Red Square became today, as is tradition, the scene of the military parade dedicated to the 79th anniversary of the Day of Victory over Nazi Germany in World W...

The 10th summit of the Eurasian Economic Union, formed by Russia and several former Soviet republics, has begun in Moscow. This year's meeting is attended by Miguel Díaz-Canel, president of Cuba, which has observer status since 2020. Brazilian authorities on Tuesday raised to 101 the number of people dead as a result of the rains that have hit the state of Rio Grande do Sul since April 29. Th...

The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, expressed on Monday his rejection to the censorship of the Government of Argentina against the news multiplatform teleSUR. On Tuesday morning, Israel took control of the Gazan border crossing at Rafah and in the afternoon sent a delegation to Cairo to negotiate a truce, after the Islamist group Hamas announced on Monday that it accepts a new proposal pre...

Brazilian authorities reported on Sunday that the number of people dead due to the historic floods affecting the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul has risen to 78. The most recent update posted on social networks by the Civil Defense indicates 78 dead, 175 injured, 111 missing and four additional deaths under investigation. Negotiations between the Palestinian Resistance movement Hamas and Israe...

Countries in the region are affected by rains and others suffer events due to climate change crisis. More than 2,000 pro-Palestinian demonstrators have been arrested in the United States since the beginning of the encampments and protests in several U.S. universities in favor of Palestine and against the Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip. Students, academics and workers of the National...

President Gustavo Petro announced on Wednesday that Colombia will break off relations with Israel as of Thursday, May 2, during his speech for the commemoration of Labor Day, at the Plaza de Bolivar, in Bogota, the capital of the country. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu assured US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday that he will not accept an agreement that includes an end to...

Students installed in a camp at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), in the southwestern United States (U.S.), to protest Israel's genocide against Gaza, faced Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning the aggression of groups of pro-Israeli demonstrators dressed in black and wearing white masks. Colombian President Gustavo Petro denounced on Tuesday an illicit arms trafficking...

The president of the Venezuelan National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, denounced on Wednesday that the United States (US) did not comply with the agreements signed between the delegations of both governments, derived from the meetings that took place since June 2023 in Qatar, Italy and Mexico, where they discussed energy, politics, diplomacy and migrations. Lula met with President Gustavo Petro and d...

The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, announced on Tuesday the closure of the embassy and consulates of the Caribbean nation in Ecuador, in support of Mexico, after the police assault to the diplomatic headquarters of this country, during the virtual meeting of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac). Venezuela's Attorney General, Tarek William Saab, presented on Tu...

The United Nations describes the situation in Sudan as one of the world’s most severe humanitarian crises.  UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres says there needs to be a bigger push from across the world for a ceasefire in Sudan.  The heads of state of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) will meet this Tuesday to discuss the assault on the Mexican Embassy in Quito, which...

Iran says Israel must take responsibility for its crimes in the Middle East during the UN Security Council session and that its defense system is ready to protect its airspace from any invasion. The criminal trial against Donald Trump opened Monday in a New York court, making him the first former president in U.S. history to sit in the dock, threatening to shake up the 2024 presidential campaign....

The Court of Justice of Ecuador received a call for a mobilization to demand the release of former vice-president Jorge Glass, kidnapped last Friday 5th from the Mexican embassy in that country where he was in asylum. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague received this Thursday the lawsuit filed by Mexico against Ecuador for the assault to the Mexican embassy in Quito. The former v...

President Daniel Noboa informed the President of the National Assembly of Ecuador that he is out of the country for personal reasons. Former Vice President Jorge Glass is transferred back to prison after a suicide attempt that led him to be admitted to the hospital and began a hunger strike in prison. The Mexican government filed a lawsuit before the International Court of Justice against Ecuador...

Venezuela's Attorney General, Tarek William Saab, announced on Tuesday the arrest of former Oil Minister, Tareck El Aissami, for his participation in a corruption scheme in the oil sector, whose whereabouts were unknown since a year ago, when he resigned from his post to collaborate with the investigations. In a press conference, the prosecutor presented the second phase of investigations of...

The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, qualified this Sunday as "arrogant" and "shameful" the actions of the government of the president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, who ordered the assault of the Mexican embassy in Quito. The Honduran president, Xiomara Castro, who holds the temporary presidency of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), calle...

The president-designate of Peru, Dina Boluarte will go this Friday to the headquarters of the Public Prosecutor's Office to present her statement for the Rolex Case, in addition to the use of high-end jewelry and suspicious transactions in her bank accounts. Argentina's public workers start this Friday, April 5, a new strike, barely 48 hours after the previous one organized last Wednesda...

The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, denounced on Wednesday that secret bases of the Southern Command and nuclei of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States (US) have been installed in the territory of Guayana Esequiba in order to prepare aggressions against the nation. The President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro affirmed on Wednesday that the non-approval of the Health refor...

A 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck off the east coast of Taiwan on Wednesday, leaving at least 9 people dead and 800 injured, local authorities confirmed. The quake is the largest to hit the country in 25 years. Heavy traffic paralyzes several points of the city and its surroundings due to protests and closures carried out by the Sindicato Único Nacional de Trabajadores de la Industria de la Constr...

The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, denounced on Monday that sectors of the oligarchy are financing conspiracy plans from the United States (US) and Colombia to destabilize the social peace of the country, four of which were dismantled this year. Likewise, he stated that the U.S. Government is promoting a campaign that seeks to delegitimize the presidential elections of July 28th. The pres...

A massacre registered on Saturday in the sector of Guasmo Sur, Ecuadorian city of Guayaquil (southwest), leaves several dead and wounded so far, according to preliminary reports reproduced by local media. Diplomatic authorities of Colombia and Argentina held a bilateral dialogue, as instructed by their presidents Gustavo Petro and Javier Milei, respectively, to overcome "any differences"...

In a historic gesture, Lula and Macron presented an investment plan for a sustainable economy in the Amazon during Macron's visit to Brazil. However, the dissonance between the leaders was more acute over the agreement between the European Union and Mercosur. The Colombian Foreign Ministry ordered on Wednesday, on behalf of the Government of President Gustavo Petro, the expulsion of Argentine...

The High Court of London opted on Tuesday to postpone its final decision on the appeal in the case of Australian journalist Julian Assange, founder of the WikiLeaks portal, so he will not be extradited to the United States immediately. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Monday expressed his hope that his country will join the BRICS as a full member at the group's next summit.  Argentina&a...

The registration of candidacies for the presidential elections to be held on July 28th continues in Venezuela. Between March 21 and 25, the CNE received the official candidacies of the presidential candidates for the elections.  The investigations related to the murder of Marielle Franco, considered a political crime, continue in Brazil. Federal police arrested three people involved in the murder...