Basque senator Iñaki Anasagasti has stated that there needs to be a strong initiative to advocate human rights wherever they are violated which, in his opinion, is occurring in countries having good relations with Spain, including Venezuela. According to El Universal, the Spanish Senate has urged the government of Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero to [...]
Half of the most senior Afghan district election officials will be fired, U.N. officials today stated, to prevent more fraud in a run-off presidential poll crucial to the country’s credibility and foreign support. The announcement of a November 7 run-off removed one stumbling block for U.S. President Barack Obama as he weighs whether to send more troops [...]
The New York Times plans to cut 100 newsroom jobs by the end of the year through buyouts and might resort to layoffs as it reels from the advertising revenue drop that is imperiling U.S. newspapers. The news, delivered in a memo to employees by Times Executive Editor Bill Keller on Monday, comes after the newspaper’s [...]
Zimbabwe’s opposition MDC said it would boycott the country’s power-sharing government until sticking points have been resolved and a political deal is reached, sparking the biggest crisis since the administration was formed nine months ago. Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai today stated that his Movement for Democratic Change would disengage from President Robert Mugabe’s “dishonest and unreliable” [...]
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has said he seized the landmark Hilton hotel on Margarita Island because its owners dared to impose conditions on its use by his government to host a summit there last month. ”To hold the conference we had to ask for permission… and the owners tried to impose conditions on the revolutionary government. [...]
A ministerial nominee in the Zimbabwean government has been ordered back to prison until his trial on terrorism charges starts, a court official said. Roy Bennett, MDC member and senior aide to Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, is due to stand trial on 19 October, AFP news agency reported. He was arrested in February on the day ministers [...]
Research and Markets has announced the addition of GlobalData’s new company profile “Venezuela’s Partnership with Russia and China Will Fortify the Oil and Gas Investments in the Country” to their offering. Venezuela’s Partnership with Russia and China Will Fortify the Oil and Gas Investments in the Country Venezuela has been one of the most active [...]
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin landed in Beijing late Monday for a three-day visit to China during which the nations are to sign a raft of trade agreements and tighten political ties. Putin will hold talks with his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao and President Hu Jintao as well as attend a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation [...]
U.N. human rights experts voiced concern today at reports that former paramilitaries from Colombia had been recruited to protect wealthy people and property in Honduras after that country’s military coup. The U.N. working group on the use of mercenaries said “information available to date” suggested that land-owners hired 40 former members of the Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia as guards after [...]
Foreign diplomats yesterday told Honduras’ government to reinstate ousted President Manuel Zelaya. In a confrontation broadcast on local television, President Roberto Micheletti scolded the diplomats for refusing to recognize what he insisted was the lawful removal of Zelaya under the Honduran Constitution and for isolating his country. “You don’t know the truth or you don’t [...]
