Ramallah, November 20 (RHC)-- The Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) says the Israeli regime has extended the detention of 90 Palestinian prisoners, including several minors, who are being kept in Israeli prisons on unknown charges. ... More


Damascus, November 20 (RHC)-- The Syrian army has managed to recapture a number of strategic areas from the Takfiri Daesh group in the western province of Latakia. Syrian army forces established control over several areas in the northeastern countryside of Latakia on Thursday. ... More


Paris, November 20 (RHC)-- In central Marseille, France, a young Muslim woman wearing a headscarf was punched and stabbed by a man as she exited a metro station. She said the attacker accused her of being a terrorist before stabbing her in her chest with a box cutter. ... More


Charleston, November 20 (RHC)-- U.S. Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush has proposed deploying U.S. ground troops to fight the Islamic State. Speaking at a military college in South Carolina, Bush called for a no-fly zone over Syria, arming Kurdish forces and increasing troop presence on the ground. ... More


Washington, November 20 (RHC)-- U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says he would be open to having a “Muslim database” in America for security reasons. Trump made his latest controversial remarks about Muslims in an interview with Yahoo News, published on Thursday, in the wake of attacks in Paris that left at least 132 people dead and hundreds injured one week ago. ... More


New York, November 20 (RHC)-- Tens of thousands of students at dozens of universities across the United States protested against racism on campus in a day of action called #StudentBlackOut. The campuses included Yale University, Harvard University, Dixie State University in Utah, the University of California-Berkeley, Tufts University and Stanford University. ... More


Montevideo, November 20 (PL-RHC)-- The House of Representatives of Uruguay passed a bill to implement various public policies seeking to take care of and protect dependent people.... More


Guantanamo, November 20 (RHC)-- The Executive Committee of the World Peace Council is meeting in the eastern Cuban city of Guantanamo. ... More


Havana, November 20 (RHC)-- An article published in this morning's edition of Granma newspaper, entitled “The Odyssey of the American Dream,” addressed the situation of nearly 2,000 Cubans left stranded in Costa Rica, which have raised the concern of regional countries, currently trying to come up with a solution to the case. ... More


Beijing, November 20 (RHC)-- Cuban Deputy Tourism Minister Mayra Alvarez said in Beijing that the Beijing-Havana direct flights to start December 27th will favor the increase of Chinese tourism to Cuba and the Latin American and Caribbean region. ... More


Mbabane, November 20 (RHC)-- Swaziland's Health Director Samuel Vusi Magagula said thanked Cuba for the contribution of their medical personnel to his country. ... More


Buenos Aires, November 20 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Daniel Scioli, representing the ruling Front for Victory in the upcoming presidential elections, officially closed his campaign Thursday promising that his government would give priority to the “most humble, the workers, and the middle class.” ... More


Montevideo, November 20 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Former Uruguayan President Jose Mujica publicly broke Thursday with his former foreign minister and the current secretary-general of the Organization of American States, Luis Almagro, over the his comments questioning the Venezuelan electoral process. ... More


Lima, November 20 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The government of Peru has allocated US$2.6 million dollars for the second phase of a project designed to protect the famous Nazca Lines from possible damage stemming from the El Niño phenomenon.... More


Brasilia, November 20 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Brazil's controversial Speaker of Chamber of Deputies Eduardo Cunha told a gathering of lawmakers from his party that the momentum to impeach President Dilma Rousseff has been lost and that he would not consider opening proceedings until 2016.... More


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