Category : Noticias del mundo

VOA News The Russian Defense Ministry said Wednesday that it would observe a ‘humanitarian pause’ on Friday to allow both rebels and civilians to leave the embattled city. «A decision was made to introduce a ‘humanitarian pause’ in Aleppo on November 4 from 9:00 to 19:00,» the chief of Russia’s General Staff Valery Gerasimov said […]Load more...

Heather Murdock VOA News BARTELLA, IRAQ — Soldiers say the Iraqi army is closing in on Mosul, fighting less than a kilometer from the city limits as it battles Islamic State militants in Iraq.But in cities and villages outside the front lines, some locals say they fear as long as militants control the provincial capital nowhere […]Load more...

Venezuela’s political standoff deepened Wednesday as tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets in several cities and opposition leaders called for a general strike later this week. At one of the demonstrations in Venezuelan capital Caracas, Jesus Torrealba, secretary general of the opposition party, announced the 12-hour strike for Friday as another attempt […]Load more...

A medida que aumenten las bajas en Irak y Siria, el grupo Estado islámico se verá obligado a concentrarse en mantener la capital del autodenominado califato. El temor de que el grupo Estado islámico esté comenzando a concentrarse en su autodenominada capital de Raqqa, en territorio sirio, y que pueda lanzar ataques desde allí, ha […]Load more...

Álvaro Algarra – Caracas, Venezuela Voz de América Piden a los ciudadanos que se queden en sus casas “como medida de protesta» por la suspensión del revocatorio contra Maduro. La oposición venezolana convocó a una huelga general de 12 horas en protesta por la suspensión del referendo revocatorio en contra del presidente Nicolás Maduro, pese […]Load more...

Final demolition work began at the “jungle” refugee shelter in Calais, France, Thursday morning after authorities declared the camp empty a day earlier. Workers used large construction equipment and machines to rip down the make-shift shelters, some of which had been badly burned by refugees setting fires Wednesday before they were forced to leave. Firefighters […]Load more...

Brian Padden VOA News SEOUL — U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday refuted the assessment made this week by the U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, in which he said that trying to persuade North Korea to denuclearize «is probably a lost cause.” “We will not accept North Korea as a nuclear […]Load more...

Jeff Seldin VOA News Fears that the Islamic State is beginning to mass in its self-proclaimed Syrian capital of Raqqa and the possibility that the terror group may launch attacks from there are prompting the United States and its Western allies to put Raqqa in their crosshairs in the coming weeks. U.S. and Western officials […]Load more...

An independent United Nations expert is bitterly condemning the world body for refusing to accept legal responsibility for a cholera outbreak in Haiti that has killed more than 9,300 and sickened 800,000. A U.N. expert on extreme poverty and human rights, Philip Alston, calls the U.N. stance a disgrace and a debacle. «If the United […]Load more...

Heather Murdock QAYYARAH, IRAQ — Fleeing fighting, abandoning their villages, and returning to formerly IS controlled areas, Iraqis are on the move. Aid workers are setting up camps for the one million people who may be displaced by the battle for Mosul, while many recaptured villages and towns remain virtually empty, littered with bombs and blackened […]Load more...