Category : Noticias del mundo

A popular refugee destination it is not, but South America may soon host a fresh wave of refugees under a U.S.-sponsored plan aimed at getting more countries to share in sheltering the world’s growing migrant population. In recent years, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Uruguay have all received refugees from Syria, but the numbers have […]Load more...

Victor Vladimirov VOA News MOSCOW — The Russian air force’s bombing campaign in Syria marked its first anniversary Friday, with Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov saying there was no «time frame» for the operation. The Kremlin has officially declared the main objectives of its air campaign in Syria to be eliminating radical Islamic extremists in Syria and […]Load more...

BOGOTA — Pope Francis will visit Colombia in the first quarter of next year, President Juan Manuel Santos said on Thursday, days after signing a peace deal with Marxist rebels which the pontiff has actively backed. Santos and the leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, rebels signed a peace accord on Monday […]Load more...

VOA News ORANJESTAD, ARUBA — A strengthening Hurricane Matthew whipped at Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao early Friday as it passed north of the islands on a rare track through a part of the Caribbean that rarely sees such storms. Authorities on the Dutch Caribbean islands had urged residents to reinforce their homes and stock up on […]Load more...

VOA News North Korea may be building a submarine designed to launch missiles, according to a U.S. site that monitors North Korean weapons development. 38North posted commercial satellite images that it says indicate a naval construction program is underway, but it could not confirm that they show a submarine. If the hull the satellite images […]Load more...

VOA News U.S. President Barack Obama said Shimon Peres’ determination to coexist with Palestinians is «in the hands of Israel’s next generation and its friends,» during a eulogy at the funeral for the late Israeli leader. Obama praised Peres as one of the «giants of the 20th century,» and likened him to other iconic world […]Load more...

VOA NEWS El presidente Juan Manuel Santos y ‘Timochenko’ —jefe máximo de las FARC— firmaron el documento con un ‘balígrafo’, una bala hecha tinta, un símbolo del proceso de paz. A las 5:30 de la tarde de este lunes 26 de septiembre, el Presidente de la República, Juan Manuel Santos, y el jefe de las […]Load more...

VOA NEWS Organizaciones humanitarias denuncian intensos combates y bombardeos que dejaron al menos 100 muertos el lunes. El ejército sirio y sus aliados libraron intensos combates con insurgentes en el distrito Apartments1070, en el suroeste de Alepo el martes, informaron fuentes de ambas partes. El distrito está adjunto a Ramusa, la entrada sur hacia Alepo. […]Load more...

VOA  NEWS Un portaaviones nuclear EE.UU. participa en maniobras conjuntas con destructores, aviones y helicópteros antisubmarinos de Corea del Sur. Estados Unidos y Corea del Sur realizaron maniobras militares este lunes mientras aumenta la posibilidad de un conflicto regional por la creciente amenaza nuclear de Corea del Norte. El portaaviones estadounidense Spruance, un destructor equipado […]Load more...

VOA NEWS «Le expresó la preocupación de Estados Unidos por las dificultades económicas que atraviesan millones de venezolanos», informó el Departamento de Estado. El secretario de Estado de Estados Unidos John Kerry se reunió con el presidente de Venezuela Nicolás Maduro el lunes, en el primer encuentro formal entre ambos desde que Kerry asumió la […]Load more...