Castries, October 21 (PL-RHC)-- Saint Lucia announced that its first Latin American and Caribbean Film Festival will be hosted next month with the screening of various films from this country and from five nations of the continent.... More


United Nations, October 20 (RHC)-- The UN Security Council has threatened to impose a fresh round of sanctions to contain a recent wave of violence in the Central African Republic (CAR) that has claimed the lives of over 60 people.... More


Sanaa, October 20 (RHC)-- Saudi fighter jets have conducted a fresh round of attacks against several areas across Yemen. On Tuesday morning, Saudi fighter jets struck a commercial neighborhood of al-Rahidah district in Yemen's southwestern province of Ta'izz, though no reports of casualties were available.... More


Brasilia, October 20 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and her predecessor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva have been exonerated of all responsibility in the Petrobras scandal in a report released this Monday by the parliamentary commission in charge of the investigation.... More


Four Killed in Iraqi Bombings

Baghdad, October 20 (RHC)-- Police and medical officials in Iraq say at least four people have been killed and nearly two dozen others injured in separate bomb explosions that struck areas in and around the capital, Baghdad.... More


Rome, October 20 (RHC)-- The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and its allies have kicked off their biggest military drills in over a decade in the central Mediterranean. Dubbed "Trident Juncture," the exercises involve some 36,000 soldiers, sailors and airmen from more than 30 countries testing what the military alliance regards its ability to respond to new security threats.... More


Ankara, October 20 (RHC)-- Turkish authorities have identified a new suspect in the recent deadly bombings in the capital, Ankara, who also happens to be the brother of a suspect in a similar attack in Suruç, southern Turkey, back in July.... More


Ottawa, October 20 (RHC)-- Canadian voters have unseated right-wing Prime Minister Stephen Harper after nearly a decade in office. In a surprise result following the closest election campaign in recent history, the centrist Liberals jumped from third place to a parliamentary majority.... More


Tel Aviv, October 20 (RHC)-- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is visiting Israel and the Occupied Territories today amid a spate of Palestinian stabbing attacks and an intensified Israeli crackdown. ... More


Washington, October 20 (RHC)-- U.S. military leaders have recommended that Washington should leave as many as 20,000 American troops in Afghanistan after 2016, says U.S. Senator John McCain.... More


Pyongyang, October 20 (RHC)-- Hundreds of South Koreans have entered a resort inside North Korean territory for a new round of family reunions.... More


New York, October 20 (RHC)-- The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has lodged a lawsuit compelling the CIA to turn over basic details about U.S. drone strikes.... More


Chicago, October 20 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Illinois, three people are in critical condition after a drive-by shooting in Calumet City late Monday night.... More


Caracas, October 20 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Venezuelan Electrical Energy Minister Luis Motta Dominguez told press on Monday that 13 attacks on Venezuela's electrical grid took place over the last week, in an attempt to destabilize the December 6th National Assembly elections.... More


Mexico City, October 20 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The massive and violent hunt for Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has left a trail of death, enforced disappearances, homes and vehicles of innocent people torched or riddled with bullets, various communities completely desolate and about 300 displaced people, while the federal government scrambles to explain what is going on in the mountainous region that is the Sinaloa cartel leader's stronghold.... More


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