Buenos Aires, October 10 (RHC)-- A Roman appeals court has confirmed a ruling against Italy’s Corriere Della Sera newspaper for a defamatory piece on Argentinian President Cristina Fernández, the Buenos Aires Herald reported.... More


Kabul, October 9 (RHC)-- Afghan army troops have killed more than 170 Taliban militants and wounded tens of others in a series of mop-up operations conducted across the war-torn country over the past 24 hours.... More


Baghdad, October 9 (RHC)-- Medical authorities in Iraq say the number of recorded cases of cholera in the Arab country has climbed to more than 1, 300, though there have been no new deaths as a result of the waterborne disease.... More


Kabul, October 9 (RHC)-- The medical aid agency Doctors without Borders says at least 33 people are still missing, five days after a deadly U.S. airstrike on its hospital in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz. ... More


Havana, October 9 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The peace delegation of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) said Thursday that talks with the Colombian government are at its “most decisive stage” and called on the government to act in good faith so that a final deal can be reached before the March 23, 2016 deadline they both recently set.... More


Kabul, October 8 (RHC)-- Doctors Without Borders has said U.S. forces knew the coordinates of the hospital and continued the attack for half an hour after being informed a hospital had been hit. ... More


Damascus, October 9 (RHC)-- A huge car bomb targeting areas just outside the northwestern Syrian city of Aleppo has killed at least 20 people. Security sources said on Thursday that tens of people were also injured in the blast in the Hraytan town, about five kilometers north of Aleppo. ... More


Washington, October 9 (RHC)-- The Barack Obama administration is abandoning the $500 million program to train and arm so-called 'moderate' rebels in Syria. ... More


Damascus, October 9 (RHC)-- An Iranian general has reportedly been killed by ISIL in Syria. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards say General Hossein Hamedani had been advising Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s troops. ... More


Brussels, October 9 (RHC)-- U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter says Russia will soon start paying the price for launching airstrikes against terrorists in Syria in the form of reprisal attacks and casualties. ... More


London, October 9 (RHC)-- British Prime Minister David Cameron has said that he will launch a nuclear attack against another country if circumstances occur. Cameron has told the BBC that nuclear bombs are "the ultimate insurance policy" and said any nuclear attack by Britain against any country will be "justified." ... More


London, October 9 (RHC)-- BP has accepted a record $20 billion fine over the worst environmental disaster in US history from the company's Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. ... More


Cairo, October 9 (RHC)-- Arab League Secretary General Nabil al-Arabi has denounced the Israeli regime for its “racist and aggressive” practices towards Palestinians, calling on the United Nations to take necessary measures to bring Tel Aviv’s acts of violence to a halt. ... More


Phoenix, October 9 (RHC)-- In the United States, an 18-year-old freshman student at Northern Arizona University opened fire on a group of students after a late-night conflict in a parking lot, leaving one student dead and three others injured, university officials said Friday. ... More


Oslo, October 9 (RHC)-- This year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to a coalition of civil society organizations known as the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet. ... More


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