Geneva, October 31 (RHC)-- The World Food Program (WFP) has warned that the ongoing epidemic of Ebola infection, which is wreaking havoc on West African countries, may also give rise to a food crisis in the region. ... More


Berlin, October 31 (RHC)-- The United Nations has issued a new appeal for countries to take in refugees from Syria’s three-year civil war.... More


Mexico City, October 31 (RHC-Xinhua) -- Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto said on Thursday that he has met the families of 43 students who went missing in late September and pledged to get results in the case.... More


Stockholm, October 31 (RHC)-- Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai has promised to donate $50,000 to rebuild schools in Gaza that were damaged by this summer’s Israeli offensive. ... More


Buenos Aires, October 31 (RHC-Mercopress) -– Argentinian Cabinet chief Jorge Capitanich called bondholders to “take legal action against (US Judge Thomas) Griesa instead of demanding the acceleration of (Argentine) bonds,” following rumors that Owl Creek Asset Management LP is discussing the formation of a group to demand immediate repayment on bonds.... More


Lod, October 31 (RHC)-- The company SodaStream has announced plans to move its factory out of an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank following an international boycott. ... More


Quito, October 31 (RHC-Xinhua) -- Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa inaugurated the 8th Bi-national Cabinet meeting with his Peruvian counterpart Ollanta Humala on Thursday, local media reported.... More


New York, October 31 (RHC)-- A woman who appeared in a viral video documenting street harassment in New York City has begun receiving rape threats on-line. Shoshana Roberts experienced more than 100 acts of verbal street harassment over a 10-hour period while being filmed with a hidden camera. ... More


London, October 31 (RHC-Mercopress) -- A Royal Navy warship has seized cocaine with a wholesale value of US$15 million from a yacht in the Caribbean.... More


New York, October 31 (RHC)-- College students around the world carried mattresses on campuses in a global day of action against sexual assault and in solidarity with Columbia University student Emma Sulkowicz. ... More


Nassau, October 31 (RHC-EFE) -- Bahamas' Health Ministry said Thursday that an ill passenger who had arrived on a charter flight from Tennessee was transported to a designated location due to fears that the individual's vomiting and diarrhea were symptoms of the Ebola virus.... More


Dallas, October 31 (RHC)-- A jury in the U.S. State of Texas has found Antonio Buehler not guilty in a case that centered on the right to film police officers. ... More


Washington, October 31 (RHC-EFE)-- A group of protesters demanding justice for the 43 students who disappeared last month in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero jeered and chanted slogans Thursday at Mexico's delegation to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in Washington.... More


Mexico, October 30 (RHC-PL) -- Mexican and Argentinian forensic doctors are continuing the process of identifying the human remains found in secret graves in the state of Guerrero, where they expect to find answers to the disappearance of 43 students from Ayotzinapa.... More


Tel Aviv, October 30 (RHC)-- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dismissed criticisms by the United States and the European Union of the Zionist regime's plan to build more than 1,000 settler units in the occupied Palestinian lands. ... More


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