Politics

• Tuesday, December 18th 2018 - 09:20 UTC

  Maduro boasts that the civilian militia has grown to 1.6 million members

  

  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Monday the country’s civil militia had grown to 16 million members - more than tripling in size from the beginning of the year - and that its mission was to defend the country against external aggression.

• Tuesday, December 18th 2018 - 09:17 UTC

  Labour's Jeremy Corbyn has called for a no confidence vote in PM Theresa May

  

  The leader of Britain’s main opposition Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, said he was calling for a no-confidence vote in Prime Minister Theresa May — a largely symbolic gesture — for not putting her Brexit plan to a vote by lawmakers immediately.

• Tuesday, December 18th 2018 - 09:08 UTC

  US wins “dolphin safe” tuna-labeling legal battle against Mexico at WTO

  

  The United States won a legal battle over “dolphin safe” tuna-labeling on Friday, when the World Trade Organization’s appeals judges dismissed Mexico’s argument that the U.S. labeling rules violated WTO rules

• Tuesday, December 18th 2018 - 08:00 UTC

  García Márquez relative rescued from kidnappers in Colombia after 3 months

  

  Melissa Martínez García, a relative of the late Nobel Literature Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez has been freed after being kidnapped and held for ransom for over three months, Colombian authorities announced Monday.

• Tuesday, December 18th 2018 - 07:48 UTC

  Evo to attend Bolsonaro's inauguration in Brasilia Jan. 1

  

  Bolivia's President Evo Morales will attend the inauguration of Brazil's new president, Jair Bolsonaro, on January 1 in Brasilia, Foreign Minister Diego Pary announced Monday.

• Tuesday, December 18th 2018 - 07:04 UTC

  Pompeo will lead US delegation to Brazilian president Bolsonaro's inauguration

  

  United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will lead a delegation to the January first presidential inauguration of Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro, president Donald Trump announced on Monday.

• Monday, December 17th 2018 - 21:34 UTC

  Argentine cemetery benefactor visits Falklands to say “thank you” for the joint humanitarian identification program

  

  Argentine entrepreneur Eduardo Eurnekián, who financed the Argentine cemetery in the Falkland Islands to bury with dignity those who perished in the 1982 war and also the March 26 flights for relatives to visit the graves of the newly-identified bodies, last week flew to the Islands to the place that has touched his heart since 2003 and thank everybody for the humanitarian accomplishment.

• Monday, December 17th 2018 - 18:47 UTC

  Cubans outraged on social media over shortage of bread

  

  With 3G technology available only a fortnight ago, Cubans took their anger over to social media to complain for the shortage of bread on the island.

• Monday, December 17th 2018 - 09:27 UTC

  Venezuelan FM says Brazil did invite Maduro over to Bolsonaro's inauguration

  

  Venezuela Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza Sunday announced President Nicolás Maduro had been invited to the presidential inauguration of Jair Bolsonaro on January 1 in Brasilia.

• Monday, December 17th 2018 - 09:02 UTC

  Brazilian faith healer accused of raping 300 women has turned himself in

  

  A Brazilian faith healer who was accused of sexual abuse by more than 300 women has turned himself in a day after being officially ruled a fugitive, local news media reported on Sunday.