Caracas - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Monday congratulated fellow-leftist Mauricio Funes for his historic win a day earlier in El Salvador's presidential election.
In a statement issued by the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry, Chavez described the electoral victory as "unobjectionable and resounding," and offered Funes his assistance.
The result "consolidates the historic current that has risen across Latin America and the Caribbean in this first decade of the 21st century," Chavez said, noting the region's swing to the left.
Brussels - The European Union will not deal with a new government in Madagascar that seizes power through violent means, officials in Brussels warned on Monday.
"The EU of course rejects acts of violence. If a new head of state is lifted to office through violent means and against the constitution, we will not recognize them," said Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg, whose country holds the EU's rotating presidency.
Geneva - North Korea's implementation of human rights was "grim, and the situation remains dire and desperate," a special United Nations expert on the isolated country said Monday, calling for immediate policy changes to ameliorate food shortages.
Some 8.7 million people, of an estimated population of 23 million, were deemed to be food insecure, UN studies have shown, but only 1.8 million were receiving food assistance, mostly through the World Food Programme.
Washington - The world's wealthiest nations should be responsible for China's pollution coming from exports, Chinese officials said Monday amid talks with the United States on how to combat global warming.
China - the world's largest polluter together with the United States - has a plan in place to reduce greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming even as its economy grows rapidly, said Li Gao, director of China's department of climate change.
Washington - An Iranian drone that wandered deep into Iraqi airspace last month was shot down by American warplanes, a US military spokesman in Baghdad confirmed Monday.
The US jet fighters downed the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle on February 25 about 100 kilometres northeast of Baghdad, after tracking it for more than one hour and determining it was not a coalition aircraft, the spokesman said.
Nairobi/Khartoum - Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir Monday said that he wanted all international aid organizations to cease operations in Sudan within a year as the fall-out from his indictment by the International Criminal Court (ICC) continued.
Sudan earlier this month expelled 13 organizations, including Doctors Without Borders and Oxfam, after the ICC issued an arrest warrant on al-Bashir for alleged war crimes.
Most of the agencies were banished from the conflict-hit Darfur province.
Caracas - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Monday congratulated fellow-leftist Mauricio Funes for his historic win a day earlier in El Salvador's presidential election.
Brussels - The European Union will not deal with a new government in Madagascar that seizes power through violent means, officials in Brussels warned on Monday.
Geneva - North Korea's implementation of human rights was "grim, and the situation remains dire and desperate," a special United Nations expert on the isolated country said Monday, calling for immediate policy changes to ameliorate food shortages.
Washington - The world's wealthiest nations should be responsible for China's pollution coming from exports, Chinese officials said Monday amid talks with the United States on how to combat global warming.
Washington - An Iranian drone that wandered deep into Iraqi airspace last month was shot down by American warplanes, a US military spokesman in Baghdad confirmed Monday.
Nairobi/Khartoum - Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir Monday said that he wanted all international aid organizations to cease operations in Sudan within a year as the fall-out from his indictment by the International Criminal Court (ICC) continued.
