UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called on Israel to halt plans to construct a new settlement and an industrial zone in the West Bank. ... More
A report says the U.S. Internet giant Yahoo scanned hundreds of millions of users' emails in 2015 at the request of U.S. intelligence agencies.... More
Doctors Without Borders has marked the first anniversary of the U.S. military’s bombing of its hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, on October 3, 2015. The attack killed 42 people, including patients and staff. ... More
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez has lodged a complaint against the Speaker of the National Assembly Henry Ramos Allup, accusing him of contempt and for promoting insurrection against President Nicolas Maduro and other public officials. ... More
In the United States, residents of Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas are preparing for evacuations as the "extremely dangerous" Hurricane Matthew is expected to brush up to the U.S. East Coast later this week.... More
Human rights activists and NGOs have demanded that the Mexican government declare a "contingency" plan to provide shelter and food to all the immigrants. ... More
Cuban President Raúl Castro is in Santiago de Cuba, as part of his working visit to eastern Cuba to assess preparations ahead of the predicted landfall there of powerful Hurricane Matthew. ... More
As Hurricane Matthew threatens eastern Cuba, nearly 1 thousand 3 hundred foreign tourists, who were lodged in facilities in the provinces of Holguín, Granma and Camagüey, have been relocated to tourist facilities in the Jardines del rey resort, north of the central province of Ciego de Avila.... More
Colombia's chief negotiator at the peace dialogues with the country's leftist rebels has offered his resignation, hours after Colombians narrowly voted down the peace deal in a non-binding plebiscite Sunday.... More
The United States has suspended negotiations with Russia on reviving a failed ceasefire in Syria amid heightened tensions over the embattled city of Aleppo.... More
In the Greek capital of Athens, over 1,000 elderly demonstrators, some of them with canes, participated in a protest rally on Monday to voice their opposition to further cuts to their pensions -- shouting slogans such as “Shame on you!” as they tried to overrun a police cordon.... More
The former President of Uruguay Jose Mujica said Latin America was the richest and at the same time the most unjust region in the world, and that all democracies should seek to end economic injustice. ... More
Argentinians have taken to the streets in Buenos Aires to protest their government's support for new Brazilian President Michel Temer and voice solidarity with his predecessor Dilma Rousseff.... More
A top German official says the United States has waged an ‘economic war’ against Deutsche Bank over its alleged sales of mortgage-backed securities before the 2008 financial crisis.... More
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