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Several airlines today suspended flights to and from Buenos Aires because of the arrival in Argentina’s capital of the ash cloud produced by the Chilean volcano Puyehue. The volcano has been erupting since last Saturday. The Andean cities of San Car...

Today floodwaters claimed the lives of 14 people, and several are still missing in the southwest of China. The country had been suffering the worst drought in 50 years. The provincial civil affairs bureau informed that the floods struck at 11 cities and counties in the Guizhou...

After the rain of ash caused by the eruption of Puyehue in Chile that affected cities in Argentina, flights resumed domestic, regional and international flights. The cancellations of those flights were recorded in two airports from Buenos Aires. Also in air-stations of southern...

It has been nearly three weeks of the event that started the so-called “Movimiento 15-M”, but the camping is still held in many cities of Spain. Most of all is Puerta del Sol, where there is now a community of about 150 squatters who came from all over the country and...

Popocatepetl volcano, in Mexico near the capital city, today spewed an ash column that reached a height of about 3 kilometers, according to the National Center for Disaster Prevention (Cenapred) of the Ministry of the Interior in Mexico. Currently the volcano warning light, which...

A judge in the northern city of Milan on Friday sent Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi’s brother to trial for the illegal publication of a wiretapped phone conversation in conservative Italian daily Il Giornale. Paolo Berlusconi, who owns Il Giornale, will stand...

Writer Mario Vargas Llosa asked today to Newspaper El Pais to cease sending his Sunday column called “Piedra de toque” to the Peruvian newspaper El Comercio to which he accuses of “manipulating information” and have become a “propaganda machine fo...

The disease control center in Germany has confirmed 365 new cases of people infected with the  E. coli bacterium, while the government struggles to find the source of the outbreak, once ruled that it does not come from the Spanish cucumbers. A quarter of all the new cases also...

The countries of the OAS voted and approved the reinstatement of Honduras to the group after two years of absence. The organization joined the Central American country with 32 votes in favor and one against. The United States defended today the return of Honduras t...

The European Commission lifted the health warning order against Spanish cucumbers after an erroneous report from the German authorities about a relationship between these products and the deadly outbreak of EHEC bacteria, announced today the Spanish Health Ministry. Th...