U.S. President Barack Obama will host his Brazilian counterpart Dilma Rousseff at the White House in April to discuss an array of issues, the White House said on Tuesday. It described the meetings slated for April 9 as part of the two presidents’ ongoing dialogue regarding the “growing partnership” between the two countries across a [...]
The Cuban Foreign Ministry Tuesday rejected criticism by the European Union of the island country’s human rights record as “misguided” and said such comments only served to “interfere” in Cuban sovereignty. “We categorically reject such statements, which constitute a new round of interference in Cuba’s internal affairs,” Elio Rodriguez, director of European relations at the [...]
A campaign to tax the rich has started in California as Restoring California coalition kicked off its signature campaign here Monday to qualify a “Millionaire Tax Initiative”on the November ballot. Marc Rich, an activist of the Restoring California coalition formed by educators and community leaders, told Xinhua the campaign got inspirations from the Occupy Wall [...]
In one year alone, over 4,500 children in the United States were hospitalized due to child abuse, and 300 of them died of their injuries, Yale School of Medicine researchers reported on Monday in a new study published in online edition of Pediatrics. Led by John Leventhal, professor of pediatrics and medical director of the [...]
Venezuela says it has arrested on murder and drug trafficking charges the last major Colombian far-right paramilitary warlord still at large. Interior Minister Tareck El Aissami said Monday that the warlord known as “Martin Llanos” was captured Saturday along with his brother in the eastern town of El Tigre. He said Llanos, whose given name is Hector Buitrago, and [...]
Soldiers clashed with supporters of striking police in Brazil’s third-largest city on Monday, firing tear gas and rubber bullets at the feet of people trying to join officers occupying the Bahia state legislature building. The murder rate in Salvador, Bahia has more than doubled since the strike began a week ago — but violence has quickly diminished since troops were [...]
The Automatic Registration in Electoral Records and Volunteer Vote Law, deemed one of the most important political reforms over the last 50 years in Chile, took effect Tuesday after being issued in Chilean “Official Daily”. Until now, the registration in electoral records in Chile was voluntary and the vote was obligatory and the non-fulfillment of [...]
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney’s victory in the Florida primary on Tuesday would boost his campaign by re-establishing the former Massachusetts governor as the GOP front-runner after his South Carolina defeat. The South Carolina loss on Jan. 21 has blown a hole in Romney’s inevitability strategy, raising doubt if he was truly the best Republican [...]
But did they check under the cushions of the palatial sofa? The US Department of Defense has a budget in the hundreds of billions, and a hefty chunk of that, funds tied to former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, have disappeared. The Pentagon says more than $100 million cash that was supposed to be at Hussein’s [...]
About 5,000 Bolivian Amazonian indigenous people marched into the capital Monday to demand the construction of a highway that would run through their territory, local media reported. Months ago, the project was abandoned by the Bolivian government after several days of protests by other indigenous groups. The demonstrators, from the Indigenous Council of the South [...]
