International

Villavicencio, Colombia, Sep 8 (EFE).- Pope Francis on Friday celebrated Mass before some 400,000 people in Villavicencio, one of the Colombian cities hardest hit by the armed conflict, and offered guidance on how the country can achieve true reconciliation. “Reconciliation is achieved and consolidated with contributions by all. It lays the groundwork for the future …

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Lima, Sep 6 (EFE).- The Peruvian government on Wednesday approved the Reconstruction Plan with Changes, which sets forth an investment of 25.655 billion soles (about $8 billion) to rehabilitate the infrastructure and services affected by extensive flooding earlier this year. After the plan’s approval by the Council of Ministers, the executive director of the Reconstruction …

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Santiago, Sep 5 (EFE).- Tens of thousands of state university students, workers and professors demonstrated Tuesday around the country in protest against a bill affecting state universities that is currently going through Congress. In Santiago the protest against the proposed law, which includes reforms to the educational system proposed by President Michelle Bachelet, went off …

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Corea del Norte efectuó este domingo su sexto ensayo nuclear, el más potente hasta la fecha, afirmando haber probado una bomba H, en un nuevo desafío al presidente estadounidense, Donald Trump, y a la comunidad internacional. Las agencias geológicas extranjeras habían detectado un temblor sísmico de magnitud 6,3 cerca del principal sitio norcoreano de ensayos …

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Caracas, Sep 2 (EFE).- Lilian Tintori, activist and wife of Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez who is currently under house arrest, said Saturday that the European tour she was to begin this Monday to meet with the chief executives of France, spain, Germany, the United Kingdom and Italy will be carried out by other opposition …

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Bogota, Sep 1 (EFE).- Colombia’s FARC rebels, demobilized under a November 2016 peace pact with the government, continued their makeover Friday with the presentation of a new political party that retains the four-letter acronym while replacing the traditional crossed-rifles emblem with a red rose. Senior members of the group formally known as the Revolutionary Armed …

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