Voz de América – Redacción Cuatro de los países productores de petróleo más afectados por los bajos precios del crudo han acordado congelar los niveles de producción Rusia, Venezuela, Arabia Saudíta, y Catar –todos miembros de la OPEP–dijeron que estarían dispuestos a no aumentar su producción más allá de lo producido este enero si otros […]readmore
Voz de América – Redacción El Consejo de Seguridad de Naciones Unidas anunció este martes la muerte del ex secretario de la ONU, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, a la edad de 93 años. El diplomático y político de origen egipcio fue el sexto secretario general de Naciones Unidas, de enero de 1992 a diciembre de 1996 y […]readmore
La escala del papa en Morelia es una señal de respaldo al programa pastoral del arzobispo de Morelia que se ha atrevido a criticar a las autoridades por su complicidad con las bandas criminales. El papa Francisco visita este martes Morelia, capital del estado de Michoacán, una región que se ha convertido en el corazón […]readmore
VOA News Three Americans abducted in Baghdad last month have been freed, Iraqi officials said Tuesday. Unknown gunmen kidnapped the three from a private apartment in mid-January, with U.S. and Iraqi officials saying they believed an Iranian-backed Shi’ite militia carried out the abduction. Iraqi officials said the three Americans were freed by Baghdad’s intelligence service […]readmore
VOA News Senior European Union leaders are expressing their commitment to help Britain remain in the bloc. Before a two-day summit that opens Thursday, British Prime Minister David Cameron won a commitment from European Parliament President Martin Schulz that the legislative body will “do its utmost” to back any fair deal on the EU reform […]readmore
VOA News Ukraine’s president has asked the country’s prime minister to resign in the face of what is perceived as the government’s failure to fight corruption and overcome an economic crisis. President Petro Poroshenko’s surprise request Tuesday followed opinion polls that showed growing public disenchantment with the government of Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk. Yatsenyuk’s resignation […]readmore
VOA News Pope Francis is holding a Mass for Mexican priests, nuns and seminarians Tuesday in the state of Michoacan, the heart of Mexico’s drug-trafficking country. Francis arrived in the capital, Morelia, for the service in which he is expected to offer words of encouragement to Mexican clergy as they try to minister to a […]readmore
VOA News Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is being questioned in connection with a financial scandal involving his unsuccessful re-election bid in 2012. Sarkozy appeared in a Paris courtroom Tuesday to face judges investigating allegations that a public relations firm, Bygmalion, engaged in a process of false accounting that allowed Sarkozy’s campaign to conceal unauthorized […]readmore
VOA News Prosecutors in Germany say human error caused last week’s fatal, head-on train crash in Bavaria, and they have opened a criminal investigation of the train dispatcher on duty at the time. Eleven people died and 80 others were injured when two commuter trains slammed into each other 60 kilometers southeast of Munich, near […]readmore
VOA News Four American journalists charged in Bahrain have been released and are due to fly out of the country, their lawyer said Tuesday. The journalists, arrested on Sunday, had been charged earlier in the day with illegally assembling with the intent to commit a crime. Police said the woman and three men entered the […]readmore