Paraguay News

Paraguay's public hospitals are on the verge of collapse, due to a lack of resources for responding to the wave of southern hemisphere winter illnesses.

First violation of Israeli, Hamas truce reported Palestinian militants in Gaza fired two rockets into southern Israel Tuesday, violating a truce between Israel and Gaza's Hamas leadership which began last week.

Paraguay's President Nicanor Duarte offered Congress his resignation Monday, two months before his term is slated to end.

Last Friday, June 6, Brazil fell 2 - "0 to Venezuela, which could be written off as a preparation match.

Paraguayan officials have put down a prison riot by agreeing to inmates' demands for more sex.

BBC Sport It wasn't just the Caribbean that provided weekend shocks in World Cup qualifying.

After nearly two decades of apathy, the university student movement in Paraguay has made a comeback, demanding a law to grant them rebates on public transport fares and opposing a draft law on higher education ...

A couple jailed on suspicion of having a same-sex wedding was freed Monday after a doctor determined that the groom is a hermaphrodite.

Main Category: Tropical Diseases Article Date: 12 Jun 2008 - 2:00 PDT The Paris-based Institut de Recherche pour le DA©veloppement and DNDi announced the implementation of scientific cooperation projects ...

ASUNCION, Paraguay - President-elect Fernando Lugo, whose historic election ended six decades of one-party rule in Paraguay, on Friday named a former leftist militant to head his Cabinet when he takes office on ...

BRASILIA, Brazil : Brazil plans to spend an unspecified amount of cash to develop neighboring Paraguay and build a power line to funnel hydroelectricity to Asuncion, Brazil's ambassador to Paraguay said ...

Mr. Alejandro Santos, chief of an International Monetary Fund mission to Paraguay, issued the following statement today in Asuncion: "An IMF mission visited Asuncin during May 21 to June 4 for discussions in ...

Asuncion, Jun 7 Four landless campesinos and a police officer were injured Friday in an eviction made in Horqueta, 310 miles north of the Paraguayan capital, said the police here.

At a special summit in Brasilia on May 23, leaders of the 12 South American nations signed the constituent treaty setting out the legal framework of the Union of South American Nations .

Asuncion, May 28 More than 150 Paraguayan women die for every 100,000 live births, a UN report revealed Wednesday.

PROJECTS: A newspaper article claimed the ROC embassy promised aid, which would be given to the incoming government to help resettle landless peasants By Loa Iok-sin STAFF REPORTER Monday, May 26, 2008, Page 1 ...

President-elect Fernando Lugo's footwear is raising eyebrows at official events, but the former clergyman's "bishop sandals" are catching on with Paraguayans.

The change allows the company to increase the number of seats on flights and adjust its air network to better serve the passengers.

The prime rate is the interest rate that banks charge their most credit-worthy customers, such as large corporations .

Children and adults scavenge for food and recyclable materials among mountains of stinking junk under an unbearable sun.