MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Argentina’s authorities have designated the Lebanese-based Hezbollah movement a terrorist organization and ruled to freeze all financial assets belonging to the group.

Jose Arredondo, the father of K-pop star Samuel Kim Arredondo reportedly owned a car dealership in Bakersfield, California. According to prosecutors in the Mexican town of San Jose del Cabo, they are investigating the death of a US citizen who was thought to have been beaten to death.

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Earlier, CNN published a report based on what it termed "exclusive documents", accusing Julian Assange of meddling in the 2016 US elections. In an interview with Sputnik, Correa shared his perspective on Assange, CNN's 'prejudice', EU-US relations and more.

The US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo is visiting Argentina this week to mark the 25th anniversary of the bombing at the Asociacion Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA) centre in Buenos Aires on 18 July 1994. The attack killed 85 members of Argentina's Jewish community, the sixth largest in the world.

Washington has imposed hefty sanctions on the Venezuelan economy, thereby further exacerbating the ongoing economic crisis in the country in a bid to force democratically elected President Nicolas Maduro to resign.

Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who became notorious for his prison breaks, was found guilty by a federal court in Brooklyn on 10 charges including drug trafficking and money laundering earlier this year.

MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) - Russian national Alexei Makeev, notorious for releasing extremist videos against the Mexicans, was sentenced by the Mexican authorities to 37.5 years in prison for murder, the prosecutor's office of the Mexican Quintana Roo state said.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro intends to propose a free trade agreement between South America's Mercosur and the United States, once he takes leadership of the bloc, presidential spokesman Otavio Rego Barros said Tuesday, according to Reuters.

A Colombian man’s hair-raising hiding spot was fully exposed in Barcelona, Spain, after airport police noticed him getting off a flight with a suspiciously large toupee and nervous disposition.

The statuettes are nothing like any stone art objects previously found in the Caribbean region, and the inscriptions on them do not bear resemblance to known writing systems.

MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) - Venezuelan Minister of Communications and Information Jorge Rodriguez announced on Monday the arrival of the government delegation in Barbados to continue negotiations with the country's opposition.

According to a report by the Daily Mail, experts have used CT scans to examine the fossil in detail inside the rock in which it was found. The plant is said to be very well preserved and even contains roots and individual cells.

MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) - Venezuelan Information Minister Jorge Rodriguez said at a press conference on Saturday that the opposition leader Juan Guaido's bodyguards, detained earlier in the day over suspected theft of state-owned weaponry, used the stolen guns during the failed coup in April and then intended to sell them.

MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) – Venezuela has concluded an alliance agreement with a Russian car manufacturer, Venezuelan Minister of Industries and National Production Tareck El Aissami has said.

MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) - The Venezuelan government and opposition have agreed to engage in permanent peace dialogue as a result of three-day talks on Barbados, Hector Rodriguez, the governor of Venezuela's Miranda state, who participated in the negotiations, said.

The United States imposed several rounds of sanctions against Venezuela after the country’s opposition leader Juan Guaido illegally declared himself interim president in late January.

Commander of US Southern Command, Admiral Craig Foller, previously alleged at a Senate hearing that hundreds of Russian military staff and contractors are in Venezuela.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russian military equipment will participate in military drills in Venezuela, scheduled for 24 July, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Thursday.

MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) – The US Overseas Private Investment Corporation will allocate $800 million for the economic development and jobs creation in the southeast of Mexico, the Latin American country’s Foreign Minister, Marcelo Ebrard, said.