Quito, October 28 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Spain will return 74 colonial and 49 pre-Columbian works of art to Ecuador on Wednesday, 22 years after the former were handed to a museum for restoration and 12 years after Madrid police found the latter during a raid undertaken as part of a money laundering and drug trafficking case.... More


Caracas, October 28 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Venezuela will dramatically boost the development of public housing for the poor, the government announced on Tuesday.... More


Gaza City, October 27 (RHC)-- Israeli warplanes have carried out airstrikes on areas in the south and center of the besieged Gaza Strip. The late Monday raids on the Palestinian coastal enclave followed reports of an alleged rocket attack from Gaza on southern Israel earlier in the day. ... More


Buenos Aires, October 27 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Argentina will head to a runoff presidential election next month after preliminary results from Sunday's vote show Kirchnerist candidate Daniel Scioli defeated conservative candidate Mauricio Macri by less than three percentage points. ... More


Ramallah, October 27 (RHC)-- Israeli forces have killed two more Palestinians in the occupied West Bank as the death toll of Israeli violence against Palestinians rises. A girl was killed by Israeli forces on Monday at an Israeli checkpoint at the Haram al-Ibrahimi in the city of al-Khalil, also known as Hebron. ... More


Kabul, October 27 (RHC)-- The death toll from an earthquake centered in northern Afghanistan has topped 300, with the majority of the deaths in Pakistan. At least 2,000 people have been injured. ... More


Moscow, October 27 (RHC)-- Russian warplanes have hit 285 targets belonging to the Daesh and al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front terrorist groups in Syria over the past three days, the Defense Ministry says. ... More


Kabul, October 27 (RHC)-- A new report reveals U.S. troops were aware that they were bombing a functional hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz in early October but thought it was being operated by the Taliban forces. ... More


Brussels, October 27 (RHC)-- Leaders from the European Union and the Balkans have agreed to a plan to address the wave of refugees attempting to reach Germany and other European countries before winter. ... More


Washington, October 27 (RHC)-- Transparency organization WikiLeaks is continuing to take on CIA Director John Brennan by releasing a new batch of secret e-mails from a so-called global intelligence company. WikiLeaks said Monday that it has begun "publishing The Global Intelligence Files, over five million e-mails from the Texas headquartered 'global intelligence' company Stratfor." ... More


United Nations, October 27 (RHC)-- At least 120,000 people have been displaced by ongoing violence in the Syrian provinces of Aleppo, Hama and Idlib since early October, the United Nations says. ... More


Brussels, October 27 (RHC)-- A leaked draft of a massive trade deal being negotiated between the United States and European Union appears to violate an EU pledge to uphold environmental protections. ... More


Caracas, October 27 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro signed Monday a pledge committing the electoral coalition he leads, the Great Patriotic Pole, to recognize results of the upcoming parliamentary elections on December 6th.... More


Caracas, October 27 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Vietnam is strengthening its ties with Latin America this week after holding meetings with officials from both Venezuela and Cuba to discuss common interests. ... More


Santiago de Chile, October 27 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Chile is set to auction off vast new pieces of land for anyone who will use the space to develop solar or wind energy projects. ... More


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