Asunción, November 5 (teleSUR-RHC)-- More than 750 Paraguayan doctors began a 48-hour strike on Wednesday in Asunción to try force a dialogue with authorities after no agreements were reached on key issues for doctors in a meeting earlier this week.... More


Mexico City, November 5 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Rural organizations demanded Wednesday the Mexican government better redistribute the 2016 budget in favor of a “family, indigenous and small-scaled” agricultural model, while multilateral negotiations to be part of the Trans-Pacific trade deal (TPP), which excludes such a model, continue.... More


Mexico City, November 5 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Mexico's Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday the recreational use of marijuana is constitutional, a decision likely to lead to legalization.... More


Port-Au-Prince, November 5 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Haitian Prime Minister Evans Paul rejected criticisms of the elections held on October 25 in the Caribbean country and defended the country's democratic system amid accusations of electoral fraud by some candidates.... More


Brasilia, November 5 (teleSUR-RHC)-- A group of five young activists associated with the Popular Youth Uprising showered opposition politician and speaker of the lower house, Eduardo Cunha, with fake dollars imprinted with the image of the lawmaker in a protest stunt over his alleged role in a corruption scandal in Brazil.... More


Bogotá, November 5 (teleSUR-RHC)-- In an historic court ruling, same-sex couples can now adopt children in Colombia, the Constitutional Court of Colombia decided on Wednesday.... More


Damascus, November 4 (RHC)-- Syria’s state television says the country’s armed forces have reopened a road leading to government-controlled parts of the northern city of Aleppo. ... More


Port-Au-Prince, November 4 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Haiti's electoral authorities reported Tuesday that the preliminary results of the elections will not be disclosed as expected, according to the national electoral law, but on Thursday.... More


Juba, November 4 (RHC)-- At least 41 people have been killed in an incident during which a cargo plane crash-landed shortly after takeoff in South Sudan. ... More


Cairo, November 4 (RHC)-- At least twelve people, among them civilians, have lost their lives and 20 others sustained injuries in a car bomb explosion that targeted security personnel in Egypt’s volatile Sinai Peninsula.... More


Geneva, November 4 (RHC)-- Doctors Without Borders has marked one month since the United States bombed its hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, killing 30 people. The Pentagon has still not issued a long-delayed preliminary report on the attack. ... More


Washington, November 4 (RHC)-- The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has designed an interactive program for schools to prevent students from being attracted to violent extremism and radicalization but the program is feared to foment discrimination against Muslims. ... More


Sanaa, November 4 (RHC)-- Yemen has been battered by a tropical cyclone, marking the first time in recorded history a tropical storm has ever made landfall there. ... More


London, November 4 (RHC)-- A British newspaper is reporting officials under former British Prime Minister Tony Blair were told to destroy a secret document questioning the legality of the Iraq War less than three weeks before the 2003 invasion. ... More


Tel Aviv, November 4 (RHC)-- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has retracted his claim a Palestinian cleric gave Hitler the idea to exterminate European Jews. ... More


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