Sports News Roundup October 26

The struggle for the 5 qualifying available berths continues today when the official penultimate date of the preliminary schedule of the 55th National Baseball Series is met.... More


Kabul, October 26 (RHC)-- The death toll from a 7.5 magnitude earthquake which affected several South Asian countries has kept rising. The powerful earthquake struck northern Afghanistan, with tremors felt in Pakistan and northern India on Monday. The quake was also felt in the Himalayan region of Kashmir. ... More


Guatemala City, October 26 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Guatemalans have elected a new president: former comedian Jimmy Morales, with 70 percent of the vote -- although in the context of a record abstention rate of almost 63 percent, according to the latest official estimates. ... More


Ramallah, October 26 (RHC)-- The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) says Israeli soldiers "kidnapped" over 1,000 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank in October. ... More


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


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