Washington, November 3 (RHC)-- The U.S. Defense Department spent $43 million of American taxpayers' money to build a gas station in Afghanistan that should have cost roughly $500,000, according to a new government watchdog report. ... More


Washington, November 3 (RHC)-- Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has hit 50 percent support for the first time since she launched her campaign almost six months ago, according to a new national poll. The latest NBC News/Survey Monkey online poll shows that the former Secretary of State's support among Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters has increased by 9 points since mid-September. ... More


Washington, November 3 (RHC)-- The White House will not release e-mails between President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, officials say. The e-mails between Obama and Clinton were discovered by the U.S. State Department when it was trying to release the former secretary's emails pertaining to into the attacks on an American compound in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012. ... More


Düsseldorf, November 3 (RHC)-- German authorities say bomb disposal experts have safely detonated a World War II explosive at an airport in Germany’s western city of Düsseldorf. ... More


London, November 3 (RHC)-- London Mayor Boris Johnson said on Monday that the latest figures show that living in London is now more than 40 percent more expensive than it was ten years ago, stressing that this reflects the huge rise in the cost of living in London. ... More


Mexico City, November 3 (teleSUR-RHC)-- A Mexican group called the Pagan Sect of the Mountain claimed responsibility for an attack on several buses outside of Mexico City that caused damage to four vehicles, but left no victims. They promised to continue bombing targets if nature continued to be destroyed by mankind and declared “fire and explosives against civilization.”... More


Mexico City, November 3 (teleSUR-RHC)-- One in every three murders of media and communications workers in Latin America happens in Mexico, making the country one of the most dangerous places in the world for journalists, according to the Inter-American Human Rights Commission.... More


Quito, November 3 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The 33 member countries of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) are set to agree on a joint position that for the first time ever the bloc will present at a COP climate change summit. The CELAC is meeting this week in Ecuador to discuss their position to be presented in the upcoming COP21, also known as the 2015 Paris U.N. Climate Conference, officials said on Monday.... More


Brasilia, November 3 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The largest oil worker union joined smaller unions on Monday in a national strike against the privatization of Petrobras, Brazil's public owned oil company and one of the world's most important. Right-wing politicians are pushing for divestment, outsourcing and underwater exploration by private companies, a plan which workers failed to suspend after 100 days of negotiation with Petrobras.... More


Santiago de Chile, November 3 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Nine out of the 33 Chilean miners who were trapped in an underground mine for over two months in 2010 filed a lawsuit against their lawyers on Monday, accusing them of fraud and cheating them out of money.... More


Ramallah, November 2 (RHC)-- At least 2,617 Palestinians were shot and wounded by Israeli forces using live and rubber bullets during the month of October, Red Crescent officials say. ... More


Caracas, November 2 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Social movements, intellectuals, and Latin American and Caribbean governments have voiced their solidarity with Venezuela against U.S. threats and intervention in the South American country.... More


Sophia, November 2 (RHC)-- Bulgaria says about 130 refugees have been discovered in a refrigerated truck on the border with Turkey. Bulgaria's Interior Ministry announced that 38 men, 33 women and 58 children were found hiding among goods on the truck at the border crossing of Kapitan-Andreevo. ... More


Cairo, November 2 (RHC)-- The Russian aircraft that recently crashed in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula broke up in the air before going down, the executive director of Russia's Interstate Aviation Commission says. ... More


Ankara, November 2 (RHC)-- In Turkey, the party of president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has regained its parliamentary majority in national elections. ... More


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