United Nations, October 17 (RHC)-- The Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations has called for the Security Council to intervene and put an end to the Israeli acts of aggression in the occupied territories.... More
Gaza City, October 17 (RHC)-- At least one Palestinian has lost his life and more than a dozen others sustained injuries after Israeli forces opened fire at a group of Palestinian protesters in the northeastern part of the blockaded Gaza Strip.... More
Kabul, October 17 (RHC)-- Doctors Without Borders says a U.S. tank has forced its way into the Afghan hospital destroyed by a U.S. airstrike, sparking concern the U.S. military may have destroyed evidence in a potential war crimes investigation. ... More
Berlin, October 17 (RHC)-- The German interior minister says his department has registered 493 attacks on refugee shelters so far this year, three times more than the assaults recorded in 2014. Thomas de Maiziere released the figure in an interview with the Funke media group, Germany's third largest newspaper and magazine publisher. De Maiziere said that the "massive rise in xenophobic attacks against asylum seekers," ranging from arson to racist graffiti, is a "disgrace for Germany."... More
New York, October 17 (RHC)-- U.S. Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump has maintained his spot atop the 2016 Republican presidential field, a new poll suggests. According to the new poll by the CBS News, the real-estate mogul leads the pack with 27 percent support, showing no changes since one month ago, when the previous edition of the survey was carried out. Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon, followed Trump with 21 percent support, down two points from the last poll.... More
London, October 17 (RHC)-- The latest figures show that the crime rate in England and Wales has doubled to more than 11.6mn offenses. The rise is mainly due to the inclusion of an estimated 5.1mn online fraud incidents and 2.5mn cybercrime offenses for the first time.... More
Chicago, October 17 (RHC)-- In the U.S. city of Chicago, a man who says he was tortured by Chicago police officers into confessing to a murder he did not commit has been released from prison after spending a quarter of a century behind bars.... More
Austin, October 17 (RHC)-- Texas Governor Greg Abbott has declared a state of disaster in a Central Texas county after a wildfire destroyed nine homes and sent dozens of people fleeing for their safety. ... More
Cuban Rafael Alba won a silver medal in the 80kg division after loosing to Uzbek Dmitriy Shokin by points 1-2 in the finals of the WTF World Taekwondo Grand Prix in Manchester, Great Britain.... More
La Paz, Oct. 17 (teleSUR-RHC) Thousands of Bolivians march every year in October to remember the 2003 “Gas War,” also known as “Black October” massacre. Twelve years ago on Oct. 17, 2003, Bolivian President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada fled Bolivia on a commercial jet, leaving behind a trail of blood.... More
St. John's, Oct. 17 (teleSUR-RHC) Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro arrived in Antigua and Barbuda on Friday, where the islands’ Prime Minister Gaston Browne thanked the visitor for a project to tackle blindness.... More
La Paz, Oct. 17 (teleSUR-RHC) School came to a close earlier than normal for millions of students in Bolivia on Friday – and students left with a little more money in their pocket.... More
Paramaribo, Oct. 17 (teleSUR-RHC) Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his counterpart in Surinam, Desi Bouterse, agreed on Friday that Petrocaribe will be the base of their bilateral relations. ... More
Montevideo, Oct. 17 (PL-RHC) Nearly 200 people were displaced by floods in the northern departments of Artigas, Salto, Rivera and Tacuarembó.... More
Quito, Oct. 17 (PL-RHC) Ecuador and Chile expanded their cooperation ties with the recently concluded visit to Quito by President Michelle Bachelet and the 4th Meeting of the Inter-Ministerial Binational Council.... More
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