Washington, October 6 (RHC)-- A new U.S. intelligence assessment says Russia has been targeting terrorist groups backed by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Syria, deepening U.S. anger at Moscow.... More
Moscow, October 6 (RHC)-- The Russian army has denied accusations that it has hit the ancient city of Palmira in Syria. According to the Russian military's spokesperson, General Igor Konachenkov, the reports that air strikes targetted Palmira are “totally false.” ... More
Sanaa, October 6 (RHC)-- The Vice President and Prime Minister of Yemen, Khaled al Bahah, survived an attack on a hotel where he was staying in the southern city of Aden. According to reports, at least 15 soldiers were killed in a rocket attack on the al-Qasr Hotel. ... More
Baghdad, October 6 (RHC)-- Three separate car bomb attacks across Iraq have left at least 57 people dead and scores injured. The worst incident on Monday occurred in the town of Khalis in the eastern Diyala Province, where 35 people were killed and 30 wounded in the bombing claimed by Daesh Takfiri militants.... More
Kabul, October 6 (RHC)-- Taliban militants have carried out a car bomb attack near the Russian embassy and Afghan parliament in the capital, Kabul, Press TV reports. The explosion on Monday was followed by gunfire between the militants and Afghan security forces. ... More
Atlanta, October 6 (RHC)-- The United States and 11 other Pacific Rim countries have reached an agreement on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade pact encompassing about 40 percent of the global economy. ... More
Jerusalem, October 6 (RHC)-- Israel has barred Palestinians from entering Jerusalem’s Old City unless they live in the neighborhood, amid escalating clashes in Jerusalem and across the occupied West Bank. This comes after two Israeli men were stabbed to death in Jerusalem over the weekend by a Palestinian man who was later killed by police.... More
Kabul, October 6 (RHC)-- The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan has said that the deadly US air strike on a Doctors Without Borders hospital in the northern city of Kunduz was carried out at the request of Afghan forces.... More
Beijing, October 6 (RHC)-- The death toll from Typhoon Mujigae in China has climbed to 11, Chinese state media say. Over 200 people were also injured, with many of them hospitalized in the southern part of the country, authorities told reporters on Tuesday.... More
Mexico City, October 6 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Mexico is going through a “grave human rights crisis” characterized by a grave and generalized situation of torture practices, enforced disappearances and extrajudicial executions, said James Cavallaro, Inter-American Commission for Human Rights expert for Mexico and first vice president of the IACHR, in an interview Monday with Aristegui CNN.... More
Cuban Sports Movement and the entire country remember today the bombing of a Cubana airplane in Barbados that killed 73 people, including the youth fencing team. ... More
Guatemala City, October 6 (teleSUR-RHC)-- A former Guatemalan top official accused former President Otto Perez Molina and former Vice President Roxana Baldetti of being the leaders of the corruption scheme dubbed “La Linea,” in which importers paid millions of dollars in bribes to avoid huge customs tax payments.... More
Mexico City, October 6 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The world's most wanted and most dangerous drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has put a $100 million bounty for whoever delivers billionaire and Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump to him dead or alive. ... More
Caracas, October 6 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Venezuelan Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez logged on Twitter account on Monday night to criticize “unfounded” attacks against Venezuela by the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.... More
New York, October 6 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York rejected Monday the second appeal to force the New York Bank of Mellon to use the $539 million of defaulted Argentine bonds deposited in 2014 to pay the country's creditors, known as the “vulture funds.”... More
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- Cuba ratifies commitment to UNESCO
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- San Francisco State University divests from arms companies aiding Israel’s war on Gaza
