Washington, January 28 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of South Carolina, a new bill that would require state police to track refugees is headed to the Senate floor, after a Senate committee approved the measure Wednesday. ... More
Kabul, January 28 (RHC)-- In Afghanistan, three prisoners who were formerly held at the secretive U.S. Bagram military prison and are now being held in Afghan custody have launched a hunger strike to protest their continued imprisonment. ... More
Washington, January 28 (RHC)-- A leading U.S. rights group says the Pentagon has promised to release nearly 200 photographs depicting the use of torture against prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan. ... More
London, January 28 (RHC)-- Britain has approved the sale of invasive surveillance equipment to Saudi Arabia, amid an outcry over the Al Saud's human rights violations, a new report says. ... More
London, January 28 (RHC)-- Official data in the UK has confirmed the slow economic growth last year, putting the blame largely on the global financial turbulence. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said in a statement on Thursday that the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) expanded only by 2.2 percent in 2015, down from 2.9 percent in the previous year. ... More
Santiago de Chile, January 27 (RHC)-- In Chile, the Supreme Court has ordered the government to compensate the families of four victims of the Pinochet dictatorship, local media has reported.... More
Mexico City, January 27 (RHC-teleSUR) -- Relatives of the 43 disappeared Ayotzinapa students marched in Mexico City on Tuesday to mark 16 months since the forcible disappearance of their loved ones in Iguala, Guerrero in September 2014 – and to continue demanding justice from Mexican authorities.... More
Cancun, January 27 (RHC-teleSUR) -- Mexico launched its first national forum on the question of marijuana legalization Tuesday in the Caribbean city of Cancun, the first of five historic debates that could change the future of marijuana prohibition in the country.... More
Panama City, January 27 (RHC-teleSUR) -- Panama has begun to take preliminary steps to support the launch of a truth commission process investigating the 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama.... More
Caracas, January 27 (RHC-teleSUR), -- Victims of Venezuela’s 2014 political violence said the opposition-proposed amnesty guarantees impunity for guilty politicians and ignores those whose lives have been affected by the unrest.... More
Brasilia, January 27 (RHC-teleSUR) -- Workers Party (PT) President Rui Falcao told high-ranking lawmakers that taxes should “spare the middle class and workers and instead fall on the wealthy,” as the PT convened in Brasilia, capital city of Brazil, Tuesday in order to analyze the country’s current political and economic situation.... More
United Nations, January 27 (RHC)-- UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has blasted Israel over plans to construct new illegal settler units in the occupied Palestinian territories, calling for an end to the unlawful activity. ... More
Kabul, January 27 (RHC)-- At least five people were killed when U.S. military forces launched a fresh drone strike in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar. ... More
Athens, January 27 (RHC)-- Another five refugees have drowned in waters off Turkey while trying to reach Greece in the latest boat accident involving asylum seekers, reports say. ... More
Washington, January 27 (RHC)-- The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Joseph Dunford, says he wants to begin taking "decisive military action" against the self-proclaimed Islamic State in Libya. ... More
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