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Jean-Claude Juncker, President-elect of the European Commission (EC), will delay the formation of the new European Commission if it does not reach a minimum number of women within the next Executive,  said today his spokeswoman Natasha Bertaud. “There may be delays in the...

The group of international experts has arrived this Thursday to the area controlled by the pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, where it was shot down the Malaysia Airlines MH17 flight with 298 passengers on board two weeks ago. According to a statement of the OSCE via...

On Thursday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the Israeli Army will “finish its work,” which is why he ensured that 16,000 more soldiers were moved to the Gaza Strip and that the U.S. Army was to replenish the army with ammunition. “We are...

The Union of South American Nations (Unasur for its Spanish acronym) will launch a scholarship and recognition to the scientific merit program, to promote regional integration in education and reward work in the area of new technologies, renewable energy and bio-knowledge. The...

Anatoli Kucherena, legal advisor to former CIA analyst Edward Snowden, today announced that he has applied for renewal of the temporary political asylum for his client in Russia, where Snowden arrived on June 23, 2013 from Hong Kong. “Edward still remains in Russia and we have...

Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, today denounced that the United States provides military equipment to the Israeli army and does not do enough to stop the offensive against Gaza. Pillay reported on the delivery of ammunition and aid that U.S. provides to Israel...

In order to protect “civilian and road infrastructure, energetic and hydrocarbons” before the intensification of attributed to the FARC in the area bordering with Ecuador attacks, the Army of Colombia today announced the arrival of 200 soldiers of the Forces special...

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) yesterday, July 29, warned about the threats that persist againstindigenous communities living in isolated remote areas of South America and asked not to contact them. The incursions into indigenous territories “occur...

Dozens of death and injured was the result of a terrorist attack in Xinjiang, northwest China, as reported this Tuesday by the Xinhua official news agency. An armed gang with knives, attacked a police station and other government buildings in the  Shache district (or Yarkand, in...

According to the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, at dawn on this Wednesday, at least 20 Palestinians were killed and 50 were injured in an Israeli bombing of a United Nations (UN) school in northern Gaza, bringing to 31 the number dead since last midnight. Several artillery...