Typhoon Haima has hit southern China after battering northern Philippines, forcing the evacuation of over 50,000 people. The residents of the cities of Shanwei and Shantou in China’s Guangdong Province were forced to move to safer ground as the strong typhoon made landfall in Shanwei Friday afternoon. ... More
Venezuela’s electoral officials have suspended a recall referendum campaign against President Nicolas Maduro, in a setback for the opposition which has been pushing to prevent the Bolivarian leader from finishing out his term. ... More
Two separate deadly Saudi airstrikes against civilian sites in Yemen’s northwestern provinces of Amran and Sa'ada have broken the United Nations-brokered ceasefire in the war-ravaged Arabian Peninsula state. ... More
A building housing refugees in Sweden has been burned in a suspected arson attack, in a second such incident this week.... More
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al-Hussein says if GOP nominee Donald Trump wins the U.S. 2016 presidential election, it will pose a threat to the world “on the basis of what he has said.” ... More
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Greece’s ruling party, Syriza, has urged the government to recognize Palestine as a state, 10 months after the Greek parliament recommended Athens to do so. ... More
The suicide of a teenager in the U.S. state of Colorado exposed the existence of a neo-Nazi Facebook group whose members talked about killing Blacks and Jews and recruited in high schools across the state. ... More
Racist violence is on the rise in the UK after the country voted to leave the European Union in June, according to a report by the Council of Europe.... More
A book released by the NGO CooperAccion titled, "Water Governance in Mining Areas of Peru," shows how farmers have increasingly seen their access to water recourses reduced due to mining activities.... More
A Haitian woman who gave birth with the help of Venezuelan doctors named her newborn little girl ‘Venezuela,’ to thank them for the support they are giving the country after Hurricane Matthew devastated the island. ... More
Brazilian federal police arrested Eduardo Cunha, the controversial former head of the lower house of Congress and chief architect behind the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, at his apartment in Brasilia Wednesday. ... More
Russian President Vladimir Putin says Moscow is prepared to extend a humanitarian ceasefire in Syria’s Aleppo. ... More
Venezuelan right-wing councilman José Vicente García has been apprehended by the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service and caught with grenades and military uniforms in his car in the state of Tachira. ... More
Honduras' prominent rural leader and head of the Unified Campesinos Movement of the Aguan Valley, or MUCA, Jose Angel Flores was assassinated in Tocoa, in the northern department of Colon. ... More
The Palestinian UN ambassador has called for a harsh UN Security Council resolution against Israel’s illegal settlement activities.... More
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