Israel Aerospace Industries on Wednesday signed a $350 million contract to supply drones to Brazil police - marking the largest such deal between Israel and Brazil. The deal was signed during President Peres' official visit to Brazil, but negotiations began months ago. The deal will be implemented in several phases, the first of which will include the transfer of three unmanned planes along with accompanying equipment, including a base station, control and inspection systems. This part...

Financial Times UK: Colombia has said it will appeal to the United Nations Security Council and the Organization of American States after Hugo Chavez, the fiery leftist president of neighbouring Venezuela, ordered his army to prepare for war in order, he said, to assure peace. For months Mr Chavez has said that a military co-operation pact signed last month between Bogota and Washington could set the stage for a US invasion of Venezuela from Colombian territory. The US and Colombia dismiss...

As the Iranian president is scheduled to set out on a state visit to Brazil in two weeks, Israeli President Shimon Peres has urged Brasilia to use its growing clout to curb Iran's nuclear work. "There needs to be a voice against destruction and against terror, a clear voice. I know that Brazil rejects threats, destruction, rejects terror, and the clear voice of Brazil has a strong echo in the entire world," Peres said in a speech to the Brazilian Congress on Tuesday. He...

Reporters Without Borders today voiced anger at the murder of journalist Vladimir Antuna García, found dead last evening after he was abducted on his way to work, pointing the finger of blame at state prosecutors who knew he was getting death threats but failed to protect him. The journalist, who worked as a security specialist on the daily El Tiempo de Durango, was found to have died of “asphyxia from strangulation” but his body also bore bullet wounds to the head and...

Cuban authorities should cease all attacks on human rights defenders, journalists, bloggers and civic activists, Human Rights Watch said today. The international community should condemn attacks on those who peacefully exercise their basic rights to freedom of expression, opinion, and assembly in the strongest terms. On November 6, Cuba’s most prominent blogger, Yoani Sánchez, together with blogger Orlando Luís Pardo Lazo, were abducted by three men. Sánchez and...

The Bolivarian government of Venezuela expresses its rejection of the new aggression against the Venezuelan people who are the statements made the day 3 November by a government representative of the State of Israel. This is further proof of the rude attitude, that characterizes aggressive interventionist and representatives of the international right, and violence of campaigns that permanently deployed against peaceful people and governments such as Venezuela. No moral government of Israel...

The charge d'affaires in Tehran Argentina, Mario Enrique Quinteros criticized Western media for using the testimony of the anti-Iranian terrorist organization Mojahedin-e Khalq in the case of bomb attack in 1994 of a Jewish cultural center in Buenos Aires. The Western and Israeli media claims that a number of Iranian officials are wanted by Interpol in connection with the AMIA, left 85 dead and injured more than other 300. Iran has denied the allegations and said Alberto Nisman, the...

The restoration of constitutional order in Honduras should be accompanied by the immediate repeal of repressive decrees issued by the de facto government, and a full investigation of abuses committed in the aftermath of the coup, Human Rights Watch said today. The de facto government of Honduras and the deposed president, Manuel Zelaya, announced today that that they had struck a deal on the evening of October 29, 2009, to restore Zelaya to office. The exact terms of the accord are unknown. ...

Washington, DC - The governments of Venezuela and Colombia should thoroughly and promptly investigate the recent abductions and killings of ten men by an unidentified armed group on the Venezuelan side of the border between the two countries, Human Rights Watch said today. A separate attack on a longtime Colombian human rights defender in the state of Meta should also be fully investigated, Human Rights Watch said. In one episode, armed men kidnapped a group of persons on October 11, 2009,...

A nephew of interim President of Honduras, Roberto Micheletti, was murdered and found in a wooded area of Choloma, relatives who recognized his remains said today. Roberto Micheletti’s nephew disappeared days ago, and yesterday his body was found next to another young man, near Choloma, according to the National Police spokesman, Orlin Cerrato. He said “the investigation will cover the total aspects necessary”. The body of Enzo Micheletti was recognized by his...