Category : Noticias del mundo

VOA News The prisoner who wrote Guantanamo Diary, a memoir recounting his daily life as a detainee in a controversial U.S. military prison, has been released from captivity after 14 years. Mohamedou Ould Slahi, 45, has gone home to his native Mauritania after spending more than a decade at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Mauritanian had […]Load more...

Esha Sarai As Haiti continues to count its dead and assess damage following devastating Hurricane Matthew, doctors and public health officers warn the risk of cholera must urgently be addressed. Unprecedented flooding, particularly in the hard-hit southwestern peninsula, has contaminated already-scarce safe drinking water, drastically increasing the risk of a cholera outbreak. Once contracted, dehydration […]Load more...

VOA News /AP HAMILTON, BERMUDA — Authorities in Bermuda closed schools and government offices Wednesday as the British territory prepared for a direct hit from Hurricane Nicole. The Category 2 storm was expected to strengthen a bit before striking the island Thursday morning. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Nicole was located about 270 […]Load more...

Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his efforts in securing the end of a five-decade conflict with Marxist rebels. «I’m so honored and so grateful…this is a very important event for my country, for the victims of this war and this is a commitment to keep trying […]Load more...

VOA News Jamie Dettmer Losing territory in northern Syria and north-west Iraq, and with assaults looming on the Islamic State’s city strongholds of Raqqa and Mosul, the terror group may be left next year with control just of the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor. But defeating the jihadists there may prove even more difficult […]Load more...

VOA News Reuters LES CAYES, HAITI — Health officials in Haiti on Thursday said they were preparing for a likely surge in cholera cases in the wake of Hurricane Matthew, which severely damaged water supplies and sanitation systems in the Caribbean nation. The fiercest Caribbean storm in nearly a decade has killed at least 140 people, […]Load more...

BOGOTA — Four days after Colombians narrowly voted to reject a peace deal with FARC rebels to end 52 years of war, community leader Leyner Palacios is still struggling to contain his bitterness over the outcome. Palacios, who is from the jungle town of Bojaya in western Colombia, which has borne the brunt of guerrilla violence, […]Load more...

De acuerdo a la empresa con sede en Mountain View, California, sus vehículos ya logran manejar situaciones complicadas de carretera Alpahet Inc., una unidad de Google que desde 2009 ha estado desarrollando vehículos con la aspiración de que se vuelvan completamente autónomos, dice que sus autos ya han recorrido unos 3,2 millones de kilómetros en […]Load more...

Voz de América Cuba comenzó a sentir la fuerza del huracán Matthew, cuando las bandas exteriores de la poderosa tormenta comenzaron a azotar las costas del extremo suroriental de la isla la tarde del martes. La pequeña ciudad de Baracoa, a unos 100 kilómetros de Santiago, la segunda ciudad más grande de Cuba, es la […]Load more...