German chancellor’s party loses power, Greens and far-Right party gain.  Photo: AP

Berlin, October 17 (RHC)-- In Germany, the party of Chancellor Angela Merkel suffered losses in Bavarian regional elections that saw big gains for the Green Party... More


U.S. Senate confirms former BP oil defender as top White House lawyer.  Photo: Google

Washington, October 17 (RHC)-- The U.S. Senate has confirmed the lawyer who defended oil giant BP from lawsuits over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill as the Donald Trump administration’s top environmental lawyer. ... More


Trump plays lots of golf.  Photo: Google

Miami, October 17 (RHC)-- U.S. President Donald Trump visited Florida and Georgia in the wake of Hurricane Michael’s destructive path, which has killed at least 19 people in the United States, with dozens still missing. ... More


Brazilian presidential candidate Fernando Haddad.  Photo: teleSUR

Brasilia, October 16 (RHC)-- During an interview with the Spanish newspaper El Pais, Brazilian presidential candidate Fernando Haddad spoke primarily about his opponent and democracy in Brazil, among other issues.... More


U.S.-backed, Saudi-led airstrike on Yemen.  Photo: AFP

Sanaa, October 16 (RHC)-- In Yemen, at least 19 people have been killed and another 30 people injured as a U.S.-supported, Saudi-led airstrike struck a convoy of buses full of civilians fleeing an assault on Yemen’s port city of Hodeidah. ... More


A man carries a child along other Hondurans fleeing poverty and violence, as they move in a caravan toward the U.S., in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.  Photo: Reuter

San Pedro Sula, October 16 (RHC)-- Another migrant caravan has left from Honduras to the United States in order to escape poverty, violence and now major rains that have left at least six people killed since last week.... More


Palestinian children in tent serving as temporary school.  Photo: AFP

Ramallah, October 16 (RHC)-- A series of fierce clashes have broken out between Palestinian protesters and Israeli forces after the Tel Aviv regime ordered the closure of a Palestinian school in the occupied West Bank.... More


People in the northern part of the besieged Gaza Strip hold a naval rally in protest against the decade-long Israeli siege on the impoverished sliver, on Octobe

Ramallah, October 16 (RHC)-- Israeli soldiers have wounded dozens of Palestinians who held a protest rally along the northern coast of the besieged Gaza Strip in a bid to break the decade-long blockade on the impoverished sliver.... More


Pope Francis waves as he leaves after leading a Mass for the canonization of El Salvador's Archbishop Oscar Romero at the Vatican, October 14, 2018.  Photo: Reu

Vatican City, October 15 (RHC)-- Pope Francis on Sunday made murdered Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero a saint, praising him for disregarding his own life "to be close to the poor and to his people." ... More


Canada allocates $50 million in aid to UN agency for Palestinians.  Photo: AP

Ottawa, October 15 (RHC)-- Canada has announced it will allocate up to 50 million dollars in aid to the United Nations relief agency for Palestinian refugees two months after the United States cut its aid to that body. ... More


 A view of Riaci, a small town in the Italian region of Calabria.  Photo: AFP

Rome, October 15 (RHC)-- Italy's Interior Ministry has ordered that all asylum-seekers be transferred out of the small southern town of Riace, which had gained international attention for its innovative model for refugee integration. ... More


U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Roberts refers ethics complaints against Kavanaugh to Colorado court.  Photo: Democracy Now

Washington, October 15 (RHC)-- In the United States, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts has referred more than a dozen misconduct complaints against newly confirmed Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to a circuit appeals court in Colorado. ... More


 Report says Trump administration separated 6,000 families in four months.  Photo: Reuters

New York, October 15 (RHC)-- A new report by Amnesty International says the Donald Trump administration forcibly separated 6,000 families at the U.S.-Mexico border... More


U.S. court upholds deposition order for Wilbur Ross in census case.  Photo: Google

Washington, October 15 (RHC)-- A U.S. appeals court has sided with a federal judge’s order that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross should be deposed over his role in adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census.  ... More


 Former White House communications chief Hope Hicks to join Fox.  Photo: Press TV

New York, October 15 (RHC)-- Former White House communications director Hope Hicks is joining Fox as chief communications officer.  ... More


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