Atlanta, October 6 (RHC)-- The United States and 11 other Pacific Rim countries have reached an agreement on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade pact encompassing about 40 percent of the global economy. ... More


Jerusalem, October 6 (RHC)-- Israel has barred Palestinians from entering Jerusalem’s Old City unless they live in the neighborhood, amid escalating clashes in Jerusalem and across the occupied West Bank. This comes after two Israeli men were stabbed to death in Jerusalem over the weekend by a Palestinian man who was later killed by police.... More


Kabul, October 6 (RHC)-- The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan has said that the deadly US air strike on a Doctors Without Borders hospital in the northern city of Kunduz was carried out at the request of Afghan forces.... More


Beijing, October 6 (RHC)-- The death toll from Typhoon Mujigae in China has climbed to 11, Chinese state media say. Over 200 people were also injured, with many of them hospitalized in the southern part of the country, authorities told reporters on Tuesday.... More


Mexico City, October 6 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Mexico is going through a “grave human rights crisis” characterized by a grave and generalized situation of torture practices, enforced disappearances and extrajudicial executions, said James Cavallaro, Inter-American Commission for Human Rights expert for Mexico and first vice president of the IACHR, in an interview Monday with Aristegui CNN.... More


Guatemala City, October 6 (teleSUR-RHC)-- A former Guatemalan top official accused former President Otto Perez Molina and former Vice President Roxana Baldetti of being the leaders of the corruption scheme dubbed “La Linea,” in which importers paid millions of dollars in bribes to avoid huge customs tax payments.... More


Mexico City, October 6 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The world's most wanted and most dangerous drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has put a $100 million bounty for whoever delivers billionaire and Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump to him dead or alive. ... More


Caracas, October 6 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Venezuelan Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez logged on Twitter account on Monday night to criticize “unfounded” attacks against Venezuela by the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.... More


New York, October 6 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York rejected Monday the second appeal to force the New York Bank of Mellon to use the $539 million of defaulted Argentine bonds deposited in 2014 to pay the country's creditors, known as the “vulture funds.”... More


Lima, October 6 (teleSUR-RHC)-- On Sunday, for the first time in Peruvian history, citizens voted in a primary election to choose the country’s next presidential candidate of Frente Amplio, a coalition of leftist parties, movements, and independent citizens. In the historic elections, over 30,000 Peruvians voted in more than 350 polling stations across the country to decide who would represent the left in the upcoming elections.... More


Bogotá, October 6 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) is calling on Colombian citizens to take part in the peace process by presenting ideas and initiatives on how to end the armed conflict in the country.... More


Damascus, October 5 (RHC)-- The Russian military has launched airstrikes against Islamic State militant targets in Syria, reportedly striking targets where high military officials of the Islamic State were hiding. ... More


Gaza City, October 5 (RHC)-- Israeli fighter jets have launched airstrikes on an area in the central Gaza Strip while another Palestinian is shot to death by Israeli troops. The early Monday attacks, which hit two sites belonging to the armed wing of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, were carried out after rockets were allegedly fired from the enclave towards an uninhabited area in southern Israel.... More


Bogotá, October 5 (teleSUR-RHC)-- A poll conducted by Semana magazine found support growing inside Colombia for the ongoing peace process between the leftist rebel Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the government. The head of the rebel group, Timoleon Jiménez, and President Juan Manuel Santos recently signed an important agreement regarding transitional justice.... More


Ramallah, October 5 (RHC)-- At least three Palestinians have been killed and 400 others wounded in clashes with Israeli forces and settlers in the occupied West Bank during the past 24 hours, says the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS).... More


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