Berlin, November 24 (RHC)-- Lufthansa cabin crew’s union has announced plans to go ahead with more strikes on Thursday, Friday and next Monday after it failed to resolve its dispute with management over payment and retirement benefits. ... More
Buenos Aires, November 24 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Journalists reacted strongly and swiftly Monday to an editorial published by the Argentinean La Nación newspaper that called for the newly elected government of Mauricio Macri to cease the prosecution of perpetrators of human rights abusers during the country's dictatorship.... More
Buenos Aires, November 24 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Argentinean president-elect, Mauricio Macri, vowed to make drastic changes Monday to open up the economy to investors and rearrange foreign ties after his electoral victory over government-backed Peronist candidate Daniel Scioli on Sunday.... More
Guatemala City, November 24 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Health professionals, students, and relatives of medical patients marched on Guatemala’s Presidential Palace in Guatemala City on Monday to protest the country’s dire public health crisis and demand authorities pay attention to the ailing health system, local media reported.... More
Bogotá, November 24 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Thousands of indigenous people are mobilizing in Colombia this week to call for the release of imprisoned community leader Feliciano Valencia and to resist what they say is the systematic persecution of indigenous people.... More
Santiago de Chile, November 24 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The Chilean government has increased the presence of its armed forces on its northern border with Peru and Bolivia in a move the Bolivian minister of defense classified as an attempt at intimidation. ... More
Tehran, November 24 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The Gas Exporting Countries Forum, or GECF, met on Monday in the Iranian capital Tehran, with the participation of the heads of state of nine member nations, including the presidents of Venezuela and Bolivia, who agreed on calling for sovereignty over natural resources.... More
Brussels, November 23 (RHC)-- Belgian authorities have arrested 16 people in a series of overnight raids as residents of the capital Brussels remain locked in their homes. ... More
Buenos Aires, November 23 (teleSUR-RHC)-- In a hard fought presidential race in Argentina, ruling party candidate Daniel Scioli lost to right-wing opposition challenger Mauricio Macri in a run off vote. The country's electoral body said that Macri had 51.44 percent of the votes and Scioli had 48.56 percent, with returns in from 99 percent of polling stations.... More
Tel Aviv, November 23 (RHC)-- The Israeli regime has approved a plan to establish five towns in an area populated by Palestinian Bedouins in the Negev Desert. The regime's Housing Minister Yoav Galant on Sunday praised the Israeli cabinet's approval of his plan to establish the towns in the southern Negev desert. ... More
Washington, November 23 (RHC)-- A number of U.S. Special Operations Forces will arrive in Syria "very soon," according to a senior American official. Brett McGurk, special U.S. envoy to the so-called coalition fighting Daesh (ISIL) in Syria and Iraq, said on Sunday the troops will have the task of organizing local forces fighting against the Takfiri terrorists in northern Syria. ... More
New York, November 23 (RHC)-- U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has called for the return of waterboarding, a near-drowning torture technique used by the CIA at its "black sites" overseas. The billionaire businessman said Sunday the practice was "peanuts" compared to what Daesh ISIL terrorists are doing. ... More
Kabul, November 23 (RHC)-- A magnitude 5.9 earthquake has hit northern Afghanistan, the Indian capital New Delhi, and parts of Pakistan. The epicenter of the seismic activity, which occurred at 1816 GMT late on Sunday, was 22 kilometers southwest of Ashkasham in the Afghan province of Badakhshan, 300 kilometers northeast of the Afghan capital Kabul. ... More
Atlanta, November 23 (RHC)-- Human rights activists converged on the U.S. state of Georgia over the weekend for the annual protest calling for the closure of the U.S. military training school known as School of the Americas. ... More
United Nations, November 23 (RHC)-- Some two million children under five in Sudan suffer from malnutrition every year, UNICEF's representative says. "Over 38 percent of children under the age of five, totaling two million, are chronically malnourished across Sudan," Geert Cappelaere, UNICEF's representative to Sudan, said on Sunday. ... More
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