Washington, October 26 (RHC)-- The United States is cutting its annual aid to the Palestinian Authority by $80 million, in support of Israel following the latest spate of violence in the occupied territories. ... More


Paris, October 26 (RHC)-- The death toll from a U.S. airstrike on a hospital in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan, run by Doctors Without Borders, has reached 30. “MSF announces with sadness that the death toll is still rising,” said the group, also known as Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), in a Sunday statement. ... More


Washington, October 26 (RHC)-- A U.S. federal district court has rejected a case by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) against the National Security Agency (NSA) over the latter’s mass surveillance program. ... More


Washington, October 26 (RHC)-- An overwhelming majority of likely voters in the United States believe the nation is headed down the wrong direction, according to a new survey. ... More


Rome, October 26 (RHC)-- Thousands of anti-war protesters in Italy and Spain have taken to streets to express opposition to war games conducted in their respective countries by the U.S.-led NATO military alliance. ... More


Berlin, October 26 (RHC)-- Germany has launched an investigation into a new case of alleged spying by the U.S. National Security Agency, a report says. The probe was launched by Germany's federal prosecutors against unknown persons over "espionage activities," Germen news Magazine Der Spiegel reported on Saturday. ... More


Buenos Aires, October 26 (PL-RHC)-- Daniel Scioli, of the Front for Victory (FpV, in Spanish), and Mauricio Macri, from the alliance of the right wing "Cambiemos" (Let's Change), will be the two candidates to compete in the second round of Argentina's presidential elections on November 22nd.... More


Port-au-Prince, October 26 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Polls closed Sunday in widely anticipated elections in Haiti, amid vows by authorities to reign in violence that had marred previous elections.... More


Bogota, October 26 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Polls opened in Colombian local elections on Sunday with nearly 33 million people eligible to vote.... More


Bogotá, October 26 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Hundreds of former Colombian nationals are fighting alongside Saudi Arabian-led forces in Yemen, according to reports Sunday.... More


Bridgetown, October 26 (CARIBBEAN NEWS-RHC)-- The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has approved a technical assistance grant to Belize to help make the country’s water sector less vulnerable to climate change impacts.... More


Santo Domingo, October 26 (RHC)-- Some 97 people have died so far this year from dengue in the Dominican Republic, Collective Health director Jose Manuel Puello said.... More


Moscow, October 26 (PL-RHC)-- Russia assesses the impact in its economic relations with Latin America of the transpacific trade agreement signed recently between the United States and 11 other nations relations, according to diplomatic sources.... More


United Nations, October 26 (RHC)-- Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez is in New York for the UN General Assembly vote on the Cuban-sponsored resolution on the necessity to end economic, commercial and financial blockade that Washington has maintains against the island. ... More


Havana, October 26 (RHC)-- Cuba's Cupet Oil Company stressed the importance of attracting foreign investment to increase drilling projects and achieve larger oil production. ... More


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