Spain: Right-wing Groups Protest Catalan Independence Talks

Photo courtesy telesur MADRID, Feb 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Thousands demonstrated in Madrid against Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s proposed talks to ease political tensions in Catalonia, in a protest organized by center-right and far-right opposition parties. Demonstrators waving Spanish flags filled the Plaza de Colon in the city center in…

3rd Protester Dead in Haiti Protests

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Feb 11 (NNN-TELESUR) — Another protester has died in demonstrations in Haiti against inflation and to demand the resignation of Haitian President Jovenel Moise. This brings the number of dead, so far, to three since protests began last Thursday. Hundreds of Haitians gathered in the center of capital of…

Rwanda’s Kagame Steps Down, Egypt’s Sisi Takes Head of African Union

ADDIS ABABA, Feb 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) –Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi officially took over the rotating post of ceremonial head of the AU at the start of a two-day summit in Addis Ababa. Rwandan President Paul Kagame, who led an active, reformist tenure as African Union chair, on Sunday passed the…

2 Migrant Caravans Detained at US-Mexico Border After Crossing

MEXICO CITY, Feb 11 (NNN-TELESUR) — Two groups of migrant caravans who entered the U.S. without documents were arrested by U.S. border patrol at the US-Mexico border. One group of 325 undocumented migrant caravan members was detained at the Arizona-Mexico border by the Border Patrol of Tuscan Thursday.  On Friday, another group of 290 undocumented migrants was arrested after crossing the border in the…

Israel: PM Netanyahu to Freeze Money Transfers to Palestinian Authority

JERUSALEM, Feb 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to freeze money transfers to the Palestinian Authority in retaliation for the killing of an Israeli by a Palestinian. The move also came after several right-wing oppositions members of Netanyahu called for it. The Israeli Shin Bet internal security service and police said in…

SADC Condemns Intervention, Interference in Venezuela

GABORONE (Botswana), Feb 11 (NNN-TELESUR) — The South African Development Community (SADC), a group consisting of 15 African nations, issued a statement condemning the violation of international law in U.S. backed coup actions against Venezuela. In a letter dated Feb. 10, President of the Republic of Namibia and chairperson of…

Brazil Gov’t Sees ‘Leftist Agenda’ in Catholic Church Meeting, Hopes to ‘Neutralize’ It

BRASILIA, Feb 11 (NNN-TELESUR) — Brazil’s far-right government of President Jair Bolsonaro believes that the Catholic Church is a threat, based on Brazilian intelligence reports saying that they could become the leader of the left in the face of a power vacuum within Brazilian leftist organization. Brazil’s Catholic churches have traditionally allied…

Muslim Lawmakers’ Criticism of Israel Pressures US Democrats

WASHINGTON, Feb 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The support for a boycott of Israel by the first two Muslim women in the U.S. Congress has opened a breach in the Democratic Party and threatens to create a fissure in the ironclad U.S.-Israeli alliance. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib made their debut in the…

Talks Collapse on Border Deal as US Government Shutdown Looms

WASHINGTON, Feb 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Talks on border security funding collapsed after Democratic and Republican lawmakers clashed over immigrant detention policy as they worked to avert another U.S. government shutdown, a Republican senator said. “The talks are stalled right now,” Republican Senator Richard Shelby told “Fox News Sunday.” He said…

Accident involving UN armored vehicle kills four in Haiti

An armoured personnel carrier of the MINUJUSTH (United Nations Mission for Justice Support in Haiti) drives past a burning barricade during a protest against the government in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, February 9, 2019. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Feb 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A traffic accident involving a United Nations armored vehicle killed four people and…