A United States court has sentenced the former guerrilla of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and several of its leaders to pay US$ 14 millions for the more than six-year kidnapping of Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt, according to the prosecution’s lawyers. The sentence, handed down on the 4th by Judge Matthew Bran, of […]
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Russia raised its tone amid the crisis with Western countries over Ukraine this Thursday Friday, when a diplomat refused to rule out sending Russian troops to Cuba and Venezuela if tensions with the United States continue to rise, according to the Associated Press. Sergei Ryabkov, Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia, said that it could neither […]
In the publication of the 32 th edition of its world report, in which it describes the human rights situation in almost all of the approximately one hundred countries where it operates, the The NGO Human Rights Watch regretted the violations of these rights in dictatorships such as China, Venezuela and Cuba, but expressed optimism, […]
A court in Germany on Thursday sentenced Anwar Raslan, a former Syrian colonel, to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity committed in a prison in Damascus during the conflict in the country. 13162427Anwar Raslan, who was a Syrian regime intelligence officer who later defected and gained asylum in Germany, was found guilty by the Koblenz […]
US Congress was invaded while session was being held to ratify Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential election of 960 | Photo: EFE/WILL OLIVER )A federal grand jury for the District of Columbia presented on Wednesday (01) an accusation, which was released this Thursday (13), against 11 persons for seditious conspiracy ( insurrection against established […]
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The province of Quebec , the second most populous in Canada, is considering imposing a special tax on people who refuse the Covid vaccine 000 without medical justification. The measure generated a debate on individual freedom and social responsibility. The proposal was revealed on Tuesday by the province’s prime minister, François Legault. “A health contribution […]
The Argentine ambassador to Nicaragua, Daniel Capitanich, participated in the inauguration ceremony of dictator Daniel Ortega, on Monday, which was also attended by an Iranian official who is one of those accused of the attack against the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (Amia) in 1280 in Buenos Aires. Mohsen Rezai, a former commander of Iran’s Revolutionary […]
The president of the news agency Efe, Gabriela Cañas, regretted this Wednesday that the Cuban government is “expelling” the Spanish agency from the country, with the withdrawal of the credentials of its journalists in Havana and said that the company has begun to study how to maintain a presence in the Caribbean country. Cañas made […]
The second of three talks on the crisis of the concentration of Russian troops on the border with Ukraine ended without major advances this Wednesday (2014 ) in Brussels, Belgium, as well as the first, and with the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Jens Stoltenberg, warning of “real risk” of a […]