Major cities in Chile have declared an environmental emergency due to bad air quality. The provinces of Santiago, Puente Alto and San Bernardo are among the most affected areas.... More
Hundreds of people in Brazil have expressed their outrage at the gang rape of a teenage girl by 30 men after the shocking video of the brutal attack was posted online by bragging attackers.... More
More than 3.5 million people are food insecure and in need of health care and livelihood recovery support in Central American countries facing the worst drought in decades.... More
The United Nation's refugee agency says up to 700 asylum-seekers may have lost their lives in three shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea over the past few days.... More
More than 20 people have been killed and 50 others injured in bombing attacks in the north and northeast of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.... More
The Palestinian president has rejected the idea of open-ended talks with Israel, saying any future negotiations with the regime in Tel Aviv should have a time cap.... More
Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Ayoub Kara has acknowledged to have paid a clandestine visit to Syria's Aleppo, which is under the control of foreign-backed Takfiri terrorists.... More
A major U.S. daily has echoed widespread reports of Saudi Arabia's involvement in the 9/11 terrorist attack – September 11, 2001 – as well as support for the Daesh terrorist group's activities in Iraq and Syria.... More
A new U.S. poll has found that Americans have little confidence in their political system, the government in general or in the two dominant political parties, with most expressing frustration and anger at the 2016 presidential campaign.... More
U.S presidential candidate Donald Trump has questioned why President Barack Obama didn't mention the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor during his trip this week to Japan.... More
Thousands of Puerto Ricans are demanding the release of political prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera, who has been in the empire's prisons for 35 years -- marching through the streets of San Juan on Sunday. ... More
An Argentinean court has found 15 military officials guilty for crimes committed under Plan Condor, a program launched in the 1970s designed to eliminate all opposition to right-wing dictatorships in South America. ... More
The United States has reportedly suspended the transfer of cluster bombs to Saudi Arabia amid growing concerns that the kingdom has used the weapons in its bombing campaign in Yemen. Reports say that the move follows rising criticism by members of the U.S. Congress of Washington’s support for its ally in the year-long aggression, which has killed more than 9,400 people. ... More
U.S. forces stationed on Japan’s Okinawa island will be put under a month-long curfew following the rape and murder of a Japanese woman by a former U.S. Marine. Lawrence Nicholson, the head of U.S. military forces on the island of Okinawa, said that a night-time curfew and some other regulations will come into effect for a month beginning on Monday.... More
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says he will not hold a debate with Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, an event that would have become a potentially high-ratings television spectacle. ... More
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