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The US Senate today approved new sanctions against the Venezuela government of President Nicolas Maduro, with the aim of promoting the defemse of human rights in that country, legislative sources reported. The approval of the bill was held in the Senate with a voice vote, which...

The protection action brought by Solanda Goyes was not accepted. Judge Raúl Atancuri, of the Fifth Trial Court of Transit, rejected this December 8 the measure that was intended to stop the contest of partial renewal of the National Electoral Council (CNE for its Spanish...

The US Senate issued this Tuesday a report on the brutal torture techniques the CIA used to interrogate suspects after the 2001 attacks. The report contains harsh revelations about the secret program launched by the government of President George W. Bush (2001-2009), to...

The German Minister of Development, Gerd Müller, criticized the entry ban by the government of Ecuador to a delegation of German MPs and warned that Berlin will not accept the situation. This, after the government of Rafael Correa denied the entry to a delegation of Members of...

The Foreign Ministry, represented by the Minister Ricardo Patiño, and the Rigoberta Menchú Foundation, chaired by the indigenous activist of the same name, signed a cooperation agreement on social justice, environment, transnationals and ancestral villages. Through a press...

The parts of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777, shot down in July when overflying eastern Ukraine, came to Holland where it will be reconstructed by accident investigators trying to determine what exactlybrought down the flight MH17. This task is carried out by Members of the...

The 35 candidates of two seats at the National Electoral Council (CNE for its Spanish acronym) were officially notified on Friday, December 5 on the scores of the merits qualification and the opposition test they surrendered last week. According to the regulations, they will be...

The Ukrainian government and pro-Russian representatives will begin on Tuesday the first round of peace negotiations in three months, coinciding with the entry into force of a new ceasefire in eastern Ukraine. On Saturday, xUkrainian President Petro Poroshenko announced that...

Uruguay received on early Sunday, as refugees, four Syrians, one Palestinian and one Tunisian, released by the US from tge Guantanamo prison after more than ten months of negotiations between the governments of Barack Obama and José Mujica. “The government confirms the...

The arrival of Typhoon Hagupit has caused in three days the deaths of at least 23 people, the evacuation of nearly one million inhabitants and the destruction of thousands of homes in the Philippines. Of the 23 fatalities, 18 died in the eastern island of Samar, the Philippine...