Paris, April 16 (Prensa Latina-RHC) -- Major media agencies in France have given wide coverage to the campaign rallies held in Paris by presidential candidates Francois Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy, a week before the elections.

Madrid, April 16 (Xinhua-RHC) -- Pilots from the national Spanish airline Iberia continued their policy of striking every Monday and Friday in protest of a low-cost subsidiary named Iberia Express.

La Paz, April 16 (Prensa Latina-RHC) -- Representatives of Bolivian indigenous communities will integrate the commissions of a government consultation in the Isiboro Sécure Indigenous Territory and National Park (Tipnis), which will decide the construction of an interdepartmental highway through that Amazon forest.

London, April 16 (Xinhua-RHC) -- Britain’s jobless rate is forecast to rise to 9.3 percent in the middle of next year, an independent forecasting group said on Monday.

Caracas, April 16 (RHC) -- Vice-president for the social matters of Venezuela, Yadira Córdova, asserts that almost 250 thousand people have benefited from the Hijos de Venezuela and En Amor Mayor social programs. The minister of University Education also said that the Venezuelans will receive allowances and the elderly will get retirement pensions equivalent to the minimum wage.

Oslo, April 16, (RHC), -- The Norwegian killer Anders Behring Breivik has pleaded not guilty during court proceedings after the trial of the July 22 case began on Monday morning at the Oslo District Court.

Cartagena de Indias, April 16, (RHC), -- The Sixth Summit of the Americas has concluded on Monday without a joint declaration due to a lack of consensus, according to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos.

Tehran, April 16, (RHC), -- Iran's Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi has urged the P5+1 group to lift economic sanctions against Tehran before the next round of nuclear talks in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad in May.