Paris, October 19 (RHC)-- Air France has announced that it will go ahead to cut hundreds of jobs as planned next year, as part of the company's restructuring plan that has triggered violent protests. ... More


United Nations, October 19 (RHC)-- The United Nations is set to send a delegation to the UK within weeks as part of an inquiry into “grave and systematic violations” of the rights of disabled people allegedly taken place under London’s austerity measures. ... More


St. Louis, October 19 (RHC)-- Police in the U.S. city of St. Louis, Missouri, are investigating a series of arson attacks that have damaged five churches during the past 10 days. ... More


Manila, October 19 (RHC)-- Typhoon Koppu has hit northern Philippines, destroying houses and forcing thousands of people from their homes. The powerful storm struck near the remote town of Casiguran in Aurora Province at about 1:00 a.m. local time on Sunday (1700 GMT on Saturday), bringing destructive winds of 175 kilometers per hour (109 miles per hour). ... More


Paris, October 19 (RHC)-- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has pledged to fully restore funding of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), in exchange for his country's re-election to the organization's executive board. ... More


Havana, October 19 (RHC)-- The International Symposium Secured and Clean Seas got underway Monday at Havana's Meliá Cohiba Hotel with the participation of more than one hundred experts, academics, business executives and representatives, government agencies, ministries, universities and research centers from 13 countries.... More


Havana, October 19 (RHC)-- The Cuban Foreign Ministry has issued a news release denying the presence of Cuban troops in Syria. ... More


Havana, October 19 (RHC)-- Mexican Foreign Minister Claudia Ruiz Massieu is paying a working visit to Cuba on Monday. ... More


Pretoria, October 19 (RHC)-- South African Vice President Cyril Ramaphosa is in Stockholm attending the Eighth Session of the South Africa-Sweden Bilateral Commission as part of a tour that will take him to Cuba and later to Mexico. ... More


United Nations, October 19 (RHC-PL) -- The U.S. blockade against Cuba is a brutality that must come to an end, a cause the international community will undoubtedly support once again this year, the Venezuelan ambassador to the United Nations, Rafael Ramirez, said in New York. ... More


Havana, October 19 (RHC-PL) -- Participants in the International Meeting for Inter-religious Dialogue and the World Peace reaffirmed their willingness to work together to build a better world. ... More


Havana, October 19 (RHC-PL) -- The vice president of the Jewish Community of Cuba, David Prinstein, called for an end to wars between nations and the prevention of armed conflicts in the future. "All wars must be prevented because they are all bad," Prinstein told reporters during the International Meeting for Inter-religious Dialogue and World Peace that will concluded yesterday at Havana's Convention Center. ... More


Bogotá, October 19 (EFE-RHC)-- Government and Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, peace negotiators have reached an agreement covering joint efforts to find more than 25,000 people estimated to have disappeared during Colombia’s over 50-year-old internal conflict.... More


Bogotá, October 19 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The head of the Colombian guerrilla group National Liberation Army (ELN), Pablo Beltran, called on the government to begin open and public dialogue with the aim of negotiating peace with the rebel group, as peace talks in Havana, Cuba, with the FARC rebels lead to a final agreement before the March 23, 2016 deadline.... More


Bogotá, October 19 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Colombian authorities are investigating a small plane crash in a residential zone in Bogotá on Sunday, which killed five people and injured at least 15.... More


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