Caracas, October 9 (PL-RHC)-- Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has urged the people to achieve the necessary victory in the legislative elections scheduled to take place on December 6th.... More


Mexico City, October 9 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Independent experts will probe a number of highly controversial government claims about the forced disappearance of the 43 students from the Ayotzinapa teachers training college, Mexican Attorney General Arely Gomez told the Mexican Senate Thursday.... More


La Paz, October 9 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Presidents and foreign dignitaries from around the world are heading to the Bolivian city of Cochabamba this weekend for the second World People's Conference on Climate Change where, unlike the United Nations process, the interests of developing nations will be the top priority.... More


Mexico City, October 9 (teleSUR-RHC)-- In an unprecedented move in Mexico, the Mexican Senate is questioning President Enrique Peña Nieto over various scandals, including the spectacular escape of the world's most powerful drug lord, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, giving him 15 days to reply.... More


Guatemala City, October 9 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt has been denied his request for amnesty against a trial for his responsibility in the massacre of 1,771 Mayan Ixiles in northern Guatemala, the country's Court of Appeals said Thursday.... More


Washington, October 9 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The World Bank spends 1.5 times as much on funding fossil fuel projects as it does on renewable energy projects, according to a new report from the Institute for Policy Studies, a think tank based in Washington, DC.... More


Baghdad, October 8 (RHC)-- A series of mortar attacks on the capital of Iraq’s eastern province of Diyala has killed 27 people and injured more than a dozen others. Iraqi officials said on Thursday that the attacks targeted residential buildings in various parts of the city of Baqubah.... More


Brussels, October 8 (RHC)-- The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has announced plans to boost its multinational force and create two more headquarters in Eastern Europe. ... More


Sanaa, October 8 (RHC)-- In Yemen, a Saudi-led airstrike has killed at least 23 people attending a wedding party south of the capital Sana’a Wednesday. Another Saudi-led airstrike killed at least 70 people attending a wedding last week. ... More


Caracas, October 8 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Venezuela's leftist political alliance, Gran Polo Patriotico (GPP), announced on Wednesday that it will formally ask the National Electoral Council to make all the country's political parties respect the results of the upcoming December 6th parliamentary elections. ... More


Abuja, October 8 (RHC)-- More than a dozen people have been killed in three separate bomb attacks in northeastern Nigeria. The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said on Wednesday that the bombings were carried out in the town of Damaturu in the state of Yobe. At least 14 people died and ten others were injured.... More


Damascus, October 8 (RHC)-- Syria’s top military commander has announced the launch of a massive operation against the strongholds of foreign-backed terrorists in the northwestern Aleppo Province following heavy air raids by Russian and Syrian air forces.... More


Moscow, October 8 (RHC)-- Russian President Vladimir Putin says the country’s Air Force, which has been bombing the positions of the militants in Syria, will support Syrian government forces fighting on the ground.... More


Russia Hits 112 Targets in Syria

Moscow, October 8 (RHC)-- Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that Russian forces have struck 112 targets in war-torn Syria since launching a bombing campaign against the militants in the Arab country last week.... More


Washington, October 8 (RHC)-- U.S. President Barack Obama has apologized to Afghanistan and the Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières) organization for a deadly airstrike on a hospital in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz.... More


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