Madrid, September 30 (RHC)-- Spain's constitutional court has decided to suspend Catalonia's referendum on independence following a request from the Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy. According to a court spokeswoman on Monday, 12 judges reached the decision to suspend Catalonia's November independence referendum after an hour-long emergency meeting. ... More
Washington, September 30 (RHC)-- Black Panther Sundiata Acoli has been ordered released on parole by a state appeals court in New Jersey after more than four decades in prison. ... More
London, September 30 (RHC)-- The United Kingdom is considering women-only carriages on its trains following a rise in the number of railway related sexual offenses. ... More
Santiago de Chile, September 30 (NNN-RHC) --Chilean President Michelle Bachelet has signed into law a Carbon tax making the country the first in South America to tax carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.... More
Bogotá, September 29 (EFE-RHC)-- More than 150 human-rights defenders, journalists and politicians have been threatened in Colombia in less than 30 days, in the most massive intimidation campaign since peace talks began between the government and the FARC, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.... More
Washington, September 29 (RHC)-- The United States continues to expand military operations in Iraq and Syria with new deployments and bombings. Overnight, U.S.-led warplanes hit grain silos and other targets in northern and eastern Syria. A number of civilians were killed in the attacks, but the exact toll in not known. Video has emerged of apparent civilian deaths in the Syrian cities of Idlib, Aleppo and Raqqa. ... More
New York, September 29 (Mercopress-RHC) –- U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for the Western Hemisphere, Roberta Jacobson, has said the bilateral relationship with Argentina is going through a “difficult period,” but stated the legal battle between that country and holdouts is not a “political problem” but a “judicial problem.” ... More
New York, September 29 (Mercopress-RHC) --The United Nations Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva has adopted an Argentinian-proposed resolution which condemns the so-called 'holdouts' or “vulture funds,” currently in a legal dispute with the country.... More
San Salvador, September 29 (Xinhua-RHC) -- The governments of Barbados and El Salvador have agreed on a mutual visa waiver with an eye on bolstering trade and cooperation, the Salvadoran Foreign Affairs Ministry said.... More
Damascus, September 29 (RHC)-- The Syrian government has welcomed a UN Security Council (UNSC) resolution that prohibits providing support for the foreign-backed militants. Regarding the move as a victory for the war-torn Arab nation, Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi expressed on Sunday his government's support for the UNSC Resolution 2178. ... More
Bogotá, September 29 (Xinhua-RHC) -- Colombian authorities have reportedly seized $458,600, that was hidden inside a truck, from the rebel Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a military spokesman said in a statement.... More
London, September 29 (RHC)-- Britain's anti-war activists have called for a national demonstration against a parliamentary decision, which allows Britain to join U.S.-led airstrikes in Iraq. Thousands of protesters across the country are expected to join the mass demonstration next weekend to condemn the parliament's decision for the Royal Air Force to launch airstrikes against the ISIL Takfiri militants in the war-torn country. ... More
Lima, September 29 (Xinhua-RHC) -- Peruvian President Ollanta Humala on Sunday visited the Andean region affected by an earthquake that killed eight people, including four children.... More
Lima, September 29 (Andina-RHC) -- Near South America's most famous archaeological site, Machu Picchu, a group of scientists from Peru and Mexico has recently found alive a mammal that was thought to have been extinct for almost 400 years: The Machu Picchu arboreal chinchilla rat (Cuscomys oblativa).... More
Freetown, September 29 (RHC)-- Liberia's chief medical authority has quarantined herself following her deputy's death from the deadly Ebola disease. ... More
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