Panama has joined diplomatic relations with China and at the same time broke with Taiwan. Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela announced China's choice during a television speech Monday (local time).
Puerto Rico would like to be the 51st full state of the United States. In a non-binding referendum, the population voted sunday for accession to the USA on Sunday. Currently, Puerto Rico is still a non-incorporated area, a term used for an area managed by the US, but it does not form an integral part.
The repeatedly renowned Spanish writer Juan Goytisolo died in his hometown of Marrakech in Morocco on Sunday. He was 86 years old.
The Mexican police found the bodies of five beheaded men on Friday. The lugubere discovery was made in the coastal state of Veracruz by the drug and smugglers of the Gulf of Mexico.
Julian Assange (45) wants to apply for political asylum in France. That's been said by his lawyer Juan Branco on Friday, France Info. Earlier Friday, justice in Sweden announced that it had suspended an investigation into the Australian. Sweden sought a case in Assange, founder of the whistleblower WikiLeaks.
The United States announced Thursday sanctions against eight members of the Venezuelan Supreme Court. The bankruptcy of the courts in US banks will be frozen, they can not enter the country and they can not trade with US citizens.
Grain company ADM is going to delete jobs in Europe. This means that the competitor of the merchants Bunge, Cargill and Louis Dreyfus must strengthen its profit.
An unknown woman has become the symbol of the violent protests in Venezuela by defying an armored police vehicle. The images strongly reflect those of the Tank Man, who in 1989 alone opposed a column of tanks at the protests at Tiananmen Square.
In Colombia, more than three hundred people still missing since the landslides and floods in the town of Mocoa. The death toll has now risen to 293, said President Juan Manuel Santos on Wednesday.
British marines invaded during an exercise in Gibraltar in 2002 accidentally Spain. This said, the then head of the British Navy Alan West. He spoke following the rising tensions on the position of the British Gibraltar peninsula if London steps out of the European Union. Spain wants Gibraltar back more than three hundred years, and smells of the United Kingdom and Gibraltar European Union membership referendum opportunities.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has extended the emergency for the area hit by landslides and floods. The government decided Monday to declare ' economic, social and environmental state of emergency ''. That should enable faster emergency funding.
Dutch entrepreneurs go along with the son of Pablo Escobar make the videogame Empire of El Patron on the life of Colombian drug lord died violently in 1993.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has any family who has been affected by landslides and floods in Mocoa promised a compensation of 18 million pesos (over 5,600 euros). He promised to make quick work of rebuilding the city, according to the Colombian radio station RCN Sunday.
Colombian police said Sunday more than six tons of cocaine seized. The drugs had to be shipped from the northern Colombian port of Barranquilla to Spain, as did President Juan Manuel Santos announced via Twitter. Cocaine in Europe would have a street value of 200 million euros.
By mudslides at least 43 children were killed in southwestern Colombia. A total of 210 people died, which is less than previously thought. That said Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos during a visit to the disaster area.
Certainly fourteen people have been killed in a landslide in southern Colombia. At least sixty people were injured, reported the authorities. It is still unclear how many people are missing.
The Mexican Juan Pedro Franco, who is regarded as the most obese man in the world, but has fallen less than 175 kilograms. Pedro is now ready to undergo surgery.
Gangs in Colombia, dozens of activists slain since an end to the protracted civil war in the country. Because the FARC rebels withdrew, defeated other armed groups to influence.
The two men got heavier sentences on appeal convicted in Spain for the murder of volleyball star Ingrid Visser and her partner Louis Severein. The provincial Supreme Court in Murcia placed Spaniard Juan C. and Romanian Valentin I. Thursday every forty years imprisonment. In the first instance they received 34 years in prison.
The Swede Joakim Robin Berggren, on Tuesday in Barcelona panic caused by a stolen truck with gas cylinders to drive in traffic in central Barcelona, there chased the night before his kamikazerit whopping 20,000 euros through at a party. The Swede still staying at the psychiatric ward of the Hospital del Mar in the city. The police can not question him yet.
King Felipe withdrew on Monday his military uniform in the closet. The king also commander in chief of the Spanish armed forces, traveled to Zaragoza on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the military academy.
The Spanish Government believes that Friday pronounced judgment in the case Noos, where Princess Cristina and her husband Inaki Urdangarin were, concerned that 'everyone is equal before the law and nobody is above the law.' That said government spokesman Mr Méndez de Vigo after the cabinet meeting. He stressed that the government does not comment on judicial decisions' but performs them. '
The second largest guerrilla group in Colombia, the National Liberation Army (ELN), has paved the way with the release of a kidnapped politician for peace negotiations with the government.
US scientists have for the first time created an embryo that is both human and pig. The remarkable creation is a milestone in the investigation of the possibility to grow human organs in the body of animals.
The Colombian Congress on Wednesday (local time) approved the new peace agreement with rebel group FARC. A week ago, the Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos and Rodrigo Londono behalf of the FARC put their signatures under the revised peace agreement to put an end to 52 years of war.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and Rodrigo Londono Thursday have put their signatures on behalf of the FARC rebel movement under the revised peace agreement to put an end to 52 years of war.
The Colombian government and the FARC Marxist signs Thursday again a peace agreement. That President Juan Manuel Santos announced Tuesday (local time). The agreement must still be approved by the Colombian Congress, but the end of the 52-year civil war seems still in sight.
The Colombian army on Wednesday killed two rebels from FARC. In the fight with the guerrillas in the northern Bolivar province was also captured a man.
The Colombian government and FARC reached a new peace agreement. Which reported negotiate mutually Saturday after six weeks, after the first agreement was rejected in a referendum.
