EU calls for free elections in Venezuela
brussels January 24, 2019 06:32The European Union calls on Venezuela to listen to the voice of the people and to come to 'free and credible elections.' 'The people of Venezuela have massively called for...
The European Union calls on Venezuela to listen to the voice of the people and to come to 'free and credible elections.' 'The people of Venezuela have massively called for...
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Due to the influx of migrants who want to travel to the United States, a humanitarian crisis has arisen in the Mexican border town of Tijuana. That says Juan Manuel Gastélum, the mayor of Tijuana. He asks the United Nations for assistance in supplying food and other relief goods to migrants.
A year after his disappearance, the Argentinean submarine ARA San Juan may have been recovered. This report media in Argentina. The navy would have confirmed the find on Saturday.
The Cuban government wants to get more clarity next week in the corridors of the General Assembly of the United Nations by the new Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez about a state visit by King Felipe and Queen Letizia to Cuba.
The carlists, the Spanish movement that Prince Carlos, born and living in the Netherlands, regards as the rightful occupier of the Spanish throne, will remember Friday during a mass in the San Fermin de los Navarros church in Madrid on the death in August 2010 of 'king Carlos Hugo '.
The more than a hundred Africans who have just passed over the fences along the Moroccan-Spanish border in Ceuta, are quickly deported to Morocco. This reported Spanish media on the authority of the police.
The Venezuelan Supreme Court has ordered the arrest of opposition leader Julio Borges. The former President of Parliament is suspected of the drone attack on President Nicolas Maduro. According to the Communist government, Saturday tried to kill the head of state with airborne explosives.
The Venezuelan secret service has arrested a politician of the opposition after the alleged attack on President Maduro. This is reported by the opposition party Primero Justicia (Justice First), who states that parliamentarian Juan Requesens and his sister Rafaela were 'kidnapped' by a group of agents at night.
King-emeritus Juan Carlos for health reasons does not sail on the holiday island of Mallorca. That is an immense disappointment for him and in a sense a relief for his son King Felipe.
The former Spanish king Juan Carlos is under fire again. This time by his former mistress, a German entrepreneur. She states that he used her bank accounts to raise bribes and that in her name all sorts of real estate was bought.
The Conservative presidential candidate Iván Duque has won the presidential elections in Colombia. He received 54 percent of the votes against 42 for his leftist rival Gustavo Petro, as it turned out after 97 percent of the votes had been counted.
Panamanian former president Ricardo Martinelli will be extradited to Panama by the United States on Monday, where he must go for espionage. One of his lawyers has informed the Reuters news agency. On Friday, the current President Juan Carlos Varela announced that the US State Department would grant the extradition request.
The United States has asked the government of Colombia to hand over one of the former leaders of the FARC guerilla movement. The American embassy has submitted an official extradition request for Seusis Hernandez, who is also called Jesus Santrich.
The widow and son of Pablo Escobar, the world's most famous drug lord, have been officially charged with laundering drug money in Argentina.
The hurricane Maria probably killed a lot more people in Puerto Rico than previously thought. The official death toll stands at 64, but Harvard research shows that probably around 5000 people died.
The Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro's government gives Venezuelan identification cards to Colombians. Maduro then tries to bring them into Venezuela so they will vote for him during the presidential election of next Sunday, says the Colombian government.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos is deeply concerned about the ever-growing influx of refugees from Venezuela. 'We need international help, the situation is very problematic', he said to the DPA news agency in Münster.
Pope Francis has received three victims of abuse within the church in Chile at the Vatican. It involved three men who were abused with others by the Chilean minister and teacher of priests Fernando Karadima.
Almost the whole of Puerto Rico is without power due to a huge disruption. The cause is probably a mistake in an important pipeline in the center of the island.
US Vice President Mike Pence has called on regional leaders to do more to isolate Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro. He said at the top of American countries in Peru that Washington is not 'on the sidelines' while the country collapses.
A single fallen tree has caused a disturbance that causes nearly 900,000 people in Puerto Rico without power. The tree fell on one of the most important electricity cables towards the capital San Juan.
The fine imposed by Spanish judges on two demonstrators who had burned a photograph of the Spanish king in 2007 is unlawful. The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that.
The 33-year-old Mexican Juan Pedro Franco who is officially known as the thickest man in the world, is busy losing weight. In October 2016 he weighed 595 kilos, now he has already lost 250 kilos. He puts everything to make his big dream come true: to be able to walk normally again.
In the abusive scandal around the Chilean bishop Juan Barros, Charles Scicluna, the Vatican's envoy, heard the first testimony of an abuse victim.
Colombia has tightened border controls by deploying more than 2,000 additional military personnel, but continues to help the hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans who have fled the misery at home. President Juan Manuel Santos promised Thursday in Cucuta, where many migrants enter the country. His government is spending millions on their reception.
Pope Francis sends a confidant to Chile to get an explanation of the behavior of Juan Barros, the bishop of Osorno. This is accused of having protected a pedophile priest who has taken care of minors. The Pope recently received considerable criticism during his visit to the South American country about his handling of that case of sexual abuse.