Damascus, November 20 (RHC)-- The Syrian army has managed to recapture a number of strategic areas from the Takfiri Daesh group in the western province of Latakia. Syrian army forces established control over several areas in the northeastern countryside of Latakia on Thursday. ... More


Paris, November 20 (RHC)-- In central Marseille, France, a young Muslim woman wearing a headscarf was punched and stabbed by a man as she exited a metro station. She said the attacker accused her of being a terrorist before stabbing her in her chest with a box cutter. ... More


Charleston, November 20 (RHC)-- U.S. Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush has proposed deploying U.S. ground troops to fight the Islamic State. Speaking at a military college in South Carolina, Bush called for a no-fly zone over Syria, arming Kurdish forces and increasing troop presence on the ground. ... More


Washington, November 20 (RHC)-- U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says he would be open to having a “Muslim database” in America for security reasons. Trump made his latest controversial remarks about Muslims in an interview with Yahoo News, published on Thursday, in the wake of attacks in Paris that left at least 132 people dead and hundreds injured one week ago. ... More


New York, November 20 (RHC)-- Tens of thousands of students at dozens of universities across the United States protested against racism on campus in a day of action called #StudentBlackOut. The campuses included Yale University, Harvard University, Dixie State University in Utah, the University of California-Berkeley, Tufts University and Stanford University. ... More


Montevideo, November 20 (PL-RHC)-- The House of Representatives of Uruguay passed a bill to implement various public policies seeking to take care of and protect dependent people.... More


Buenos Aires, November 20 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Daniel Scioli, representing the ruling Front for Victory in the upcoming presidential elections, officially closed his campaign Thursday promising that his government would give priority to the “most humble, the workers, and the middle class.” ... More


Montevideo, November 20 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Former Uruguayan President Jose Mujica publicly broke Thursday with his former foreign minister and the current secretary-general of the Organization of American States, Luis Almagro, over the his comments questioning the Venezuelan electoral process. ... More


Lima, November 20 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The government of Peru has allocated US$2.6 million dollars for the second phase of a project designed to protect the famous Nazca Lines from possible damage stemming from the El Niño phenomenon.... More


Brasilia, November 20 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Brazil's controversial Speaker of Chamber of Deputies Eduardo Cunha told a gathering of lawmakers from his party that the momentum to impeach President Dilma Rousseff has been lost and that he would not consider opening proceedings until 2016.... More


Santiago de Chile, November 20 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Mayors from 45 cities throughout Chile have signed a declaration committing to fight against climate change and requesting to be included in climate change policy.... More


Paris, November 19 (RHC)-- The suspected Belgian mastermind of the recent terrorist attacks in Paris has been identified among the dead in Wednesday's police raid in Saint-Denis commune, the Paris prosecutor's office says. ... More


Caracas, November 19 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro told teleSUR that his government rejected the U.S.’s spying on his country, exposed Wednesday by teleSUR and The Intercept.... More


Paris, November 19 (RHC)-- The French National Assembly has voted to approve President François Hollande’s plan to extend the state of emergency by three months, and to grant Hollande a sweeping expansion of state powers. ... More


Paris, November 19 (RHC)-- French authorities have announced they have canceled the November 29 march the day before the opening of the U.N. climate summit due to "the heightened security situation." ... More


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