Stockholm, August 27 (RHC)-- The bodies of around 40 people have been discovered in the hold of a troubled migrant boat in the Mediterranean Sea off the Libyan coast, the Swedish coastguard says. ... More
Gaza City, August 27 (RHC)-- The United Nations aid agency for Palestinian refugees says the infant mortality rate in besieged Gaza Strip has dramatically risen for the first time in more than half a century. "The number of babies dying before the age of one has consistently gone down over the last decades in Gaza, from 127 per 1,000 live births in 1960 to 20.2 in 2008," the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said in a statement. ... More
New York, August 27 (RHC)-- The board of the American Psychological Association has voted nearly unanimously to adopt a new policy barring psychologists from participating in national security interrogations. ... More
Roanoke, August 27 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Virginia, vigils have been held for two journalists who were fatally shot on live television during the morning broadcast Wednesday of the local news station WDBJ in Roanoke. ... More
Washington, August 27 (RHC)-- Retail giant Wal-Mart has announced it will no longer sell assault rifles in its stores, although it will continue to sell shotguns. ... More
San Francisco, August 27 (RHC)-- A recent study shows that global warming has worsened drought conditions in the U.S. state of California by as much as 27 percent. The report points to wildfires in the U.S. state, which have spread rapidly and burned thousands of acres of forests.... More
Edinburgh, August 27 (RHC)-- Reverend Jesse Jackson, a prominent civil rights activist in the United States, has said that Americans have become "much too violent" and the number of guns in their hands shows that the country is "playing with mayhem." ... More
London, August 27 (RHC)-- A new report in the UK points to the practice of using sick children as guinea pigs in National Health Service (NHS) experiments with tainted blood. ... More
Mexico City, August 27 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Relatives of the 43 forcibly disappeared Ayotzinapa students, along with supporters, held a peaceful rally Wednesday in the Mexican capital. They had traveled from other states to continue to demand justice for their missing children, 11 months after the disappearance.... More
Lima, August 27 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The elite police of Peru conducted a mega operation on Wednesday in which they raided pits where drug traffickers produce cocaine and also seized chemicals used in the refining of the narcotic, authorities said, according to the U.S. news agency the Associated Press.... More
Mexico City, August 27 (teleSUR-RHC)-- A number of human rights organizers and defenders said Wednesday that forced disappearances are on the rise in Mexico, La Jornada newspaper reported.... More
Bogotá, August 27 (teleSUR-RHC)-- As the number of femicides continue increasing in Colombia, the National Network of Women launched a free application for mobile phones which warns women about types of violent crimes they can be victims of, and about ways they can report them, El Espectador newspaper published on Tuesday.... More
Santiago de Chile, August 27 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Chilean state officials, along with other experts, opened Wednesday a seminar on sustainable agriculture and climate change, co-organized by the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.... More
Ramadi, August 26 (RHC)-- A suspected Daesh militant has rammed a car bomb into a military convoy near the western Iraqi city of Ramadi, killing over a dozen government troops and allied volunteer fighters. ... More
Caracas, August 26 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Venezuelan Foreign Ministry Delcy Rodriguez met with her Colombian counterpart Maria Angela Holguin on Wednesday to discuss the ongoing crisis at the border between both countries. The meeting took place in Colombia.... More
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