Berlin, October 17 (RHC)-- The German interior minister says his department has registered 493 attacks on refugee shelters so far this year, three times more than the assaults recorded in 2014. Thomas de Maiziere released the figure in an interview with the Funke media group, Germany's third largest newspaper and magazine publisher. De Maiziere said that the "massive rise in xenophobic attacks against asylum seekers," ranging from arson to racist graffiti, is a "disgrace for Germany."... More
New York, October 17 (RHC)-- U.S. Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump has maintained his spot atop the 2016 Republican presidential field, a new poll suggests. According to the new poll by the CBS News, the real-estate mogul leads the pack with 27 percent support, showing no changes since one month ago, when the previous edition of the survey was carried out. Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon, followed Trump with 21 percent support, down two points from the last poll.... More
London, October 17 (RHC)-- The latest figures show that the crime rate in England and Wales has doubled to more than 11.6mn offenses. The rise is mainly due to the inclusion of an estimated 5.1mn online fraud incidents and 2.5mn cybercrime offenses for the first time.... More
Chicago, October 17 (RHC)-- In the U.S. city of Chicago, a man who says he was tortured by Chicago police officers into confessing to a murder he did not commit has been released from prison after spending a quarter of a century behind bars.... More
Austin, October 17 (RHC)-- Texas Governor Greg Abbott has declared a state of disaster in a Central Texas county after a wildfire destroyed nine homes and sent dozens of people fleeing for their safety. ... More
La Paz, Oct. 17 (teleSUR-RHC) Thousands of Bolivians march every year in October to remember the 2003 “Gas War,” also known as “Black October” massacre. Twelve years ago on Oct. 17, 2003, Bolivian President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada fled Bolivia on a commercial jet, leaving behind a trail of blood.... More
St. John's, Oct. 17 (teleSUR-RHC) Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro arrived in Antigua and Barbuda on Friday, where the islands’ Prime Minister Gaston Browne thanked the visitor for a project to tackle blindness.... More
La Paz, Oct. 17 (teleSUR-RHC) School came to a close earlier than normal for millions of students in Bolivia on Friday – and students left with a little more money in their pocket.... More
Paramaribo, Oct. 17 (teleSUR-RHC) Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his counterpart in Surinam, Desi Bouterse, agreed on Friday that Petrocaribe will be the base of their bilateral relations. ... More
Montevideo, Oct. 17 (PL-RHC) Nearly 200 people were displaced by floods in the northern departments of Artigas, Salto, Rivera and Tacuarembó.... More
Quito, Oct. 17 (PL-RHC) Ecuador and Chile expanded their cooperation ties with the recently concluded visit to Quito by President Michelle Bachelet and the 4th Meeting of the Inter-Ministerial Binational Council.... More
Montevideo, Oct. 17 (PL-RHC) Uruguay has launched a new digital passport, demanded by Washington. The digital passport was a precondition for Washington to hold talks on allowing Uruguayans to enter the U.S without a visa.... More
Damascus, October 16 (RHC)-- Syrian armed forces, backed by Russian air support, have reportedly launched a large-scale military offensive against Takfiri terrorists in the southern countryside of Aleppo, the country’s second-largest city.... More
Abuja, October 16 (RHC)-- At least 42 people lost their lives when two bomb explosions ripped through a mosque in Nigeria's restive northeastern state of Borno.... More
Caracas, October 16 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced a 30 percent increase of the country's minimum wage and food stamps on Thursday in a Bolivar state speech.... More
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