Brussels, September 23 (RHC)-- Interior ministers of the European Union have adopted by majority a resolution to distribute some 120,000 refugees among the member states, much to the dismay of some central and eastern European nations who oppose the mandatory quotas in sharing of the refugee exodus. ... More
Ramallah, September 23 (RHC)-- Palestinian media have released a shocking video showing a young Palestinian woman, shot by Israeli forces, being left to bleed for a long time before being transferred to a hospital, where she reportedly died of her wounds. ... More
Washington, September 23 (RHC)-- The Barack Obama administration has transferred a Guantánamo Bay prisoner who staged a nearly nine-year hunger strike back to his native Saudi Arabia. ... More
Geneva, September 23 (RHC)-- The governor of Okinawa, Japan, has taken his battle against the construction of a new U.S. military base to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. ... More
Paris, September 23 (RHC)-- The leader of France's far-right party National Front (FN) has been summoned to court over comparing French Muslims' street praying to the Nazi occupation during World War II. According to the prosecutor's office in the eastern French city of Lyon, Marine Le Pen will stand trial on October 20th on charges of "incitement to discrimination over people's religious beliefs." ... More
Damascus, September 23 (RHC)-- So-called "moderate" militants trained by the U.S. military have handed over their weapons to terrorists upon entry into Syria. ... More
Washington, September 23 (RHC)-- The commander of the United States' alleged war on Daesh terrorists in Iraq and Syria, is stepping down, officials say. John R. Allen, the Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL, will leave his position in early November, four U.S. State Department officials told Bloomberg on condition of anonymity. ... More
Tokyo, September 23 (RHC)-- A study shows the nuclear disaster at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in 2011 could have been avoided. The study released in the science journal Philosophical Transactions said: “The Fukushima accident was preventable if international best practices and standards had been followed, if there had been international reviews, and had common sense prevailed in the interpretation of preexisting geological and hydrodynamic findings.” ... More
London, September 23 (RHC)-- Two British journalists have gone on trial accused of paying a police officer for information for stories. According to prosecutors, the officer got about £10,000 over 10 years. They added that the “corrupt relationship" was based on "tip-offs" on incidents, arrests or celebrities. ... More
Washington, September 23 (RHC)-- A Chinese interceptor jet nearly collided with an American spy plane over the Yellow Sea last week. The jet conducted a pass near the American RC-135 while it was busy gathering electronic intelligence near the disputed Senkaku Islands on September 15th, the Washington Free Beacon reported. ... More
Los Angeles, September 23 (RHC)-- In Los Angeles, California, Mayor Eric Garcetti and members of the City Council have declared a "state of emergency" over homelessness and vowed to dedicate $100 million to address the issue. ... More
Renowned American a Capella music group Take 6 will perform in Havana on the 26th. of September as part of the music festival Les voix humaines or Human Voices, organized and sponsored by the office Cuban maestro, Leo Brouwer.... More
Bogotá, September 23 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Former Colombian Senator and human rights activist Piedad Cordoba announced Tuesday that the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) are ready to sign an agreement for justice and reparations to victims of the more than 50-year-old armed conflict. ... More
Mexico City, September 23 (teleSUR-RHC)-- In the small, usually quiet town of San Antonio Matute, in the northern Mexican state of Jalisco, armed forces clashed with heavily armed drug gang members, with a death toll between five and eight, according to local officials and conflicting news reports.... More
Mexico City, September 23 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Tensions have been heating up in Mexico this week both in the streets and in congress, days ahead of the one year anniversary of the infamous disappearances of the 43 Ayotzinapa students. The case, which has shaken the country over the past year, is rife with controversies and contradictions and is still far from being resolved. ... More
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