Paris, September 17 (RHC)-- The European Union's border agency recently announced that well over 500,000 refugees have reached at the EU borders in 2015. This sudden influx has caused turmoil in European nations who are struggling to deal with the rising numbers of asylum seekers. ... More
New York, September 17 (RHC)-- Standard & Poor's ratings agency has downgraded its sovereign credit rating for Japan by one notch, saying that chances for the country being able to revive its economic growth are slim. ... More
Maputo, September 17 (RHC)-- The African nation of Mozambique has been declared free of landmines after its last known landmine was removed in the country's central region. The British Halo Trust charity organization, which has led the clearance in Mozambique, said on Thursday that it had removed nearly 171,000 landmines. ... More
Mexico City, September 17 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Armed civilians suspected of being drug traffickers clashed violently with members of a rural defense force with a death toll of seven and two others injured in a municipality of the embattled state of Michoacan, Mexico, local officials reported. The incident occurred in the municipality of Lazaro Cardenas.... More
Mexico City, September 17 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Mexican Attorney General Arely Gomez announced on Wednesday that the remains of a second forcibly disappeared Ayotzinapa student have been identified by Austrian forensic experts, a finding that has been outright rejected by the parents of the missing students.... More
Quito, September 17 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Artisans from across Ecuador came to Quito's San Francisco Plaza for what has been called a Solidarity Fair. It is one of the spaces created for national producers to sell their goods, which range from clothing to food items and musical instruments. And while they praised the government for reforms that have benefited them, anti-government supporters rallied simultaneously demanding the reforms be dropped.... More
Santiago de Chile, September 17 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The lower chamber's Health Commission agreed Wednesday to legalize abortion in the most controversial case of the three presented in a governmental bill: rape. ... More
Bogotá, September 17 (teleSUR-RHC)-- After three months of investigation, former president of the Colombian Supreme Court, Jorge Pretelt, was accused Wednesday of bribery and of favoring the interests of the Fidupetrol oil company.... More
Asunción, September 17 (teleSUR-RHC)-- A shipment of over 650 kilograms of marijuana was found Tuesday hidden in cigarette boxes of a company belonging to President Horacio Cartes, the independent daily Ultima Hora reported. ... More
Buenos Aires, September 17 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Argentinian government officials are launching a legal investigation against Canadian mining company Barrick Gold after 15,000 liters of cyanide leaked into a local river from its Veladero mine located in the western province of San Juan.... More
Ankara, September 16 (RHC)-- Twenty-two asylum seekers have lost their lives as their wooden boat capsized in the Aegean Sea off the Turkish coast. ... More
Caracas, September 16 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced Tuesday the state of exception already implemented in various border points to control criminality fueled by Colombian paramilitaries will be extended into 10 municipalities in the country’s border region with Colombia under the country’s new peacekeeping mission. ... More
Budapest, September 16 (RHC)-- In news from Europe, about 150 refugees have crossed into Croatia after they were blocked at the Hungarian-Serbian border. Hungary has sealed its border with Serbia and enacted new laws that criminalize border crossings with up to three years’ imprisonment. ... More
United Nations, September 16 (RHC)-- Another member of the scandal-ridden UN peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic (CAR) has been accused of sexual exploitation, bringing the total number of such cases to 17. ... More
United Nations, September 16 (RHC)-- The Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations says hundreds of world leaders have been invited to take part in a ceremony to raise the country's flag at the UN headquarters in New York later this month. ... More
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