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Colombian President Gustavo Petro ordered the opening of an embassy in the Palestinian city of Ramallah, Foreign Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo announced Wednesday.Earlier this month, Petro announced his government's decision to break diplomatic relations with Israel over its actions in Gaza, and closed Colombia's embassy in Tel Aviv on May 3.Dignitaries and high-level officials from around 50 countries attended the official ceremony in Tehran on Wednesday to pay tribute to Iranian President ...

Thousands of Iranians paid tribute on Monday in Tehran and other cities in the country to Raisi, who lost his life the day before in a helicopter crash in a mountainous area of northwestern Iran along with eight other people. Also, the Three Powers Committee agrees to hold presidential elections in the country on June 28, following the initial agreement reached between the Guardian Council of the Constitution and the Electoral Commission.The Brazilian Government informed this Friday that...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday referred to the energy and economic cooperation between his country and China, highlighting the achievements in these areas thanks to the ties of union and friendship between the two countries.Speaking at the 8th Russian-Chinese EXPO in the city of Harbin, Vladimir Putin said that Moscow and Beijing can be proud of the results of Russian-Chinese economic ties and cooperation.Colombia's influential former president Álvaro Uribe Vélez is inching closer...

The president of China, Xi Jinping, and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, made clear Thursday in Beijing their interest in continuing to strengthen relations of friendship and cooperation, a face to face that distances Western hopes that Beijing will pressure Moscow to stop the war in Ukraine.The South African ambassador to The Hague, Vusimuzi Madonsela, denounced on Thursday that the Israeli genocide continues in the Gaza Strip and increased after the International Court of Justice (I...

The Palestinians commemorate this Wednesday the 76th anniversary of the 1948 Nakba, when more than 700,000 people were expelled from their homes.The National Assembly (NA) of Venezuela approved a draft agreement repudiating the renewal of unilateral coercive measures against the country by the European Union (EU) and proposed to the Electoral Power the withdrawal of the invitation to observers from that bloc for the presidential elections of next July 28.The president of the New Development B...

The secretary-general of the United Nations (UN) is deeply saddened to learn of the death of one member of the United Nations Department of Safety and Security and the injury of another when their UN vehicle was hit as they were on their way to the European hospital in Rafah on Monday, said Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for António Guterres.In the past 24 hours, the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip has killed at least 82 people and injured 234, a significantly higher daily toll than those r...