Caracas - Venezuelan Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez has rejected new attacks against her country from the United States government, according to her Twitter account.

Buenos Aires - The Argentinean government declared today agricultural emergency for various provinces hit by wild fires and heavy rains in the last few months.

Washington -Two US Congressional Democrats called for a closed-door hearing at the Capitol on the resignation of White House National Security Adviser, retired general Michael Flynn, The Hill newspaper reports today.

United Nations - The United Nations launched today a request for an additional 253 million dollars to its regular budget of 2017 to fund human rights programs, an unprecedented figure in the organization''s history.

Istanbul - Turkish police has arrested more than 230 people suspected of belonging to the illegal Kurdistan Workers'' Party (PKK), 70 of them in this city, during an operation that is still open.