Mexico City, October 16 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Transgender people in Mexico City can get an official document, which will allow them to have their constitutional rights with their new gender identity without passing through expert medical examinations, the city's legal services adviser Manuel Granados announced on Thursday.... More
Washington, October 16 (RHC)-- U.S. President Barack Obama has announced the United States will halt its military withdrawal from Afghanistan, instead keeping thousands of troops in the country through the end of Obama’s term in 2017. There are currently 9,800 U.S. troops in Afghanistan.... More
Moscow, October 15 (RHC)-- Washington’s decision to obstruct Russia’s call for diplomatic engagement on Syria is unconstructive and apparently shows a lack of will to negotiate, says Russian President Vladimir Putin. ... More
Caracas, October 15 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Venezuelan National Assembly President Diosdado Cabello, presented the recording of a telephone conversation between the president of Empresas Polar, Lorenzo Mendoza, and the Venezuelan economist, Ricardo Haussman, in which they spoke of "a fiscal adjustment plan for Venezuela" driven by a loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank (WB).... More
Moscow, October 15 (RHC)-- Russia has criticized the United States for refusing to endorse a statement of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) condemning a recent terrorist attack on the Russian embassy in the Syrian capital Damascus. ... More
Abuja, October 15 (RHC)-- Three bombings, suspected to be carried out by Boko Haram Takfiri militants, have killed at least seven people in northeast Nigeria. Nigerian Army spokesman, Colonel Sani Usman, said on Wednesday that the attacks were in the densely-populated suburb of Ajilari-Cross late Tuesday. The blasts occurred within seconds of each other. ... More
Sanaa, October 15 (RHC)-- Yemen's Houthi forces fired a ballistic missile on Thursday in retaliation for attacks by a Saudi-led coalition, a source in the Iranian-allied group said, with a Houthi-linked television station saying the Scud missile had been fired at a Saudi air base. ... More
Kabul, October 15 (RHC)-- Two more staff members of Doctors Without Borders, also known by its French name, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), are believed to have been killed in the recent U.S. airstrike on its hospital in northern Afghanistan, raising the death toll to 24. ... More
Berlin, October 15 (RHC)-- New revelations suggest Germany's intelligence services cannot only blame the U.S. National Security Agency, the NSA, for spying on friendly countries and other targets. According to reports in the German media, Berlin's spies eavesdropped on the communications of several of the country’s allies, including France and the United States until late 2013. ... More
Quito, October 15 (RHC)-- Ecuador has requested that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange be allowed “safe passage” out of the country’s London embassy to a hospital for a medical examination. ... More
Seoul, October 15 (RHC)-- South Korea has sent advance teams into North Korea on Thursday, ahead of next week's reunion for families separated by the Korean War. The October 20th to 26th reunion in North Korea's Mount Kumgang resort is only the second in five years. ... More
Paris, October 15 (RHC)-- Thousands of French police officers have taken to the streets of the capital, Paris, and a number of other cities in protest against unsafe working conditions. ... More
Havana, October 15 (RHC-PL) -- Some 90 Brazilian firms will participate in the 33th Havana International Trade Fair (FIHAV 2015), to be held at Expocuba exhibit center from November 2nd to the 7th. ... More
Caracas, October 15 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced Wednesday the U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will outline in November a diplomatic road-map to solve the border dispute with Guyana over the Essequibo territory.... More
Sao Paulo, October 15 (PL-RHC)-- Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, denounced on Wednesday attempts by opposition sectors seek shortcuts to gain power, in clear violation of the Constitution.... More
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