Cairo, November 5 (RHC)-- Palestine has asked the Egyptian government to reopen the Rafah border crossing closed by Cairo following deadly attacks in the Sinai Peninsula. The Palestinian ambassador to Egypt, Jamal al-Shobaki, asked Cairo on Tuesday to reopen the border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip.... More
United Nations, November 5 (RHC)-- The world’s top climate panel has issued its most urgent appeal to date on the need to stop global warming. In a new report, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says continued emissions of greenhouse gases "will cause further warming and long-lasting changes in all components of the climate system, increasing the likelihood of severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts." ... More
Montevideo, November 5 (RHC-PL) -- Uruguayan presidential candidates Tabaré Vázquez, of the governing Broad Front (FA), and Luis Lacalle of the opposition National Party (PN), resumed on Tuesday parallel campaigns, with a view to the second round balloting on November 30th.... More
Washington, November 5 (RHC)-- U.S. Republicans have emerged from Tuesday’s midterm elections with control of the U.S. Congress for the first time in eight years. ... More
Freetown, November 5 (RHC)-- A new report warns Ebola is spreading up to nine times faster in parts of Sierra Leone. The Africa Governance Initiative says cases continue to rise "frighteningly quickly," some nine times faster than two months ago. However, in neighboring Liberia the rate of new Ebola cases appears to have declined. ... More
Sao Paulo, November 5 (RHC-Mercopress) -- MERCOSUR and the Pacific Alliance are not contradictory competing blocs, and can advance towards a mutually beneficial convergence, said Chile's Economy minister Luis Felipe Cespedes.... More
Baghdad, November 5 (RHC)-- In Iraq, the death toll from an ISIS assault on members of a Sunni tribe over the past few days has topped 300. The Albu Nimr tribe had fought ISIS for weeks in Anbar province, but was forced to retreat after running low on supplies and an ignored plea for help from the Iraqi government in Baghdad. ... More
Caracas, November 5 (RHC-EFE) -- A Colombian militia chief wanted in his country for murder and land theft was extradited to Bogotá on Tuesday, the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry said.... More
Quito, November 5 (RHC-Xinhua) -- Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño met with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Roberta Jacobson in Quito Tuesday to discuss bilateral issues.... More
Georgetown, November 5 (RHC-Gina) -- Guyana's Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport will host an indigenous song festival with the aim of preserving indigenous languages and raising awareness.... More
Mexico City, November 5 (teleSUR-RHC) -- Thousands of workers from Mexico's aviation trade unions and students of aviation schools took to the streets and Terminal 2 of Mexico City's International Airport to demand the government stop the negotiations of a bilateral agreement with the United States that will allow U.S. carriers to operate without restrictions in Mexico's airspace.... More
Bogotá, November 5 (teleSUR-RHC) -- Peace expert Carlos Medina Gallego called for a common fund to be established among countries in support of Colombia’s peace process, in the wake of offers of assistance from Europe during President Juan Manuel Santos’ visit to the continent.... More
Tehran, November 5 (RHC)-- Iranians have held massive rallies across the country to mark the 35th anniversary of the 1979 takeover of the U.S. embassy in Tehran. In the capital, a large group demonstrators gathered outside the building of the former U.S. embassy, also known as the “Den of Espionage,” on Tuesday and chanted slogans against the United States and Israel. ... More
Paris, November 5 (RHC)-- Transport workers in France have begun a nationwide strike "in defense of public transport," according to reports from Paris. The rail and metro strike was called by the CGT, one of France’s largest trade unions, for Tuesday in response to controversial rail reforms approved this summer. ... More
St. Louis, November 5 (RHC)-- Local authorities in Ferguson, Missouri, have privately conceded they sought a no-fly zone to limit media coverage of the protests that erupted after the police killing of Michael Brown. ... More
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