Tokyo, October 10 (RHC)-- In news from Japan, a new study says children living near the Fukushima nuclear plant during the 2011 meltdown have been diagnosed with thyroid cancer at a rate between 20 and 50 times higher than children on average. ... More
Seattle, October 10 (RHC)-- The American Civil Liberties Union is suing Benton County, Washington, for operating a "modern-day debtors’ prison." ... More
Colombia, October 10 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of South Carolina, the family of unarmed African American Walter Scott, who was shot in the back by white police officer Michael Slager in April, has settled with the city of North Charleston for $6.5 million. ... More
Houston, October 10 (RHC)-- In the United States, one person has been killed and another wounded near a college campus in the U.S. state of Texas and a suspect has been taken into custody.... More
Portland, October 10 (RHC)-- Over 200 gun-rights activists in the US have protested President Barack Obama's visit to the state of Oregon to meet with the families of victims of last week's college mass shooting.... More
Bogotá, October 10 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The peace delegations from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the Colombian government issued a joint statement on Friday in an accord to settle their differences over the interpretation of a recently signed historic agreement regarding transitional justice.... More
Caracas, October 10 (PL-RHC)-- The Minister of Petroleum and Mining and President of Petroleos de Venezuela (Pdvsa), Eulogio Del Pino, announced a technical forum to assess the situation with oil prices.... More
La Paz, October 10 (PL-RHC)-- Delegates from 54 countries are taking part in the 2nd World Summit on Climate Change underway from today until Monday, October 12th, in Cochabamba, Bolivia.... More
Bridgetown, October 10 (NNN-BGIS)-- Prime Minister Freundel Stuart has reiterated that Barbados, like several other small international financial centers, continues to be buffeted at every turn by “the unjustified attacks of powerful nations.”... More
United Nations, October 10 (CARIBBEANNEWS-RHC)-- United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has requested that the Organization’s Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) launch an audit of the interaction between the UN and the Global Sustainability Foundation and the Sun Kian Ip Group, and the use of any funds received from these entities, according to a UN spokesperson.... More
Mexico, October 10 (PL-RHC)-- The ancestral rights of indigenous peoples and Afro-descendants were addressed in the Second Session of the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, which concluded Friday in Mexico City.... More
Buenos Aires, October 10 (RHC)-- A Roman appeals court has confirmed a ruling against Italy’s Corriere Della Sera newspaper for a defamatory piece on Argentinian President Cristina Fernández, the Buenos Aires Herald reported.... More
Kabul, October 9 (RHC)-- Afghan army troops have killed more than 170 Taliban militants and wounded tens of others in a series of mop-up operations conducted across the war-torn country over the past 24 hours.... More
Baghdad, October 9 (RHC)-- Medical authorities in Iraq say the number of recorded cases of cholera in the Arab country has climbed to more than 1, 300, though there have been no new deaths as a result of the waterborne disease.... More
Kabul, October 9 (RHC)-- The medical aid agency Doctors without Borders says at least 33 people are still missing, five days after a deadly U.S. airstrike on its hospital in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz. ... More
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