Zagreb, September 17 (RHC)-- Nearly 4,000 refugees, mostly from crisis-hit Syria, have entered Croatia from Serbia in the past 24 hours following a move by Hungary to close its borders to them. ... More
Sanaa, September 17 (RHC)-- At least ten people have been killed and many more wounded in Saudi Arabia's latest airstrike on Yemen. The civilians were killed as Saudi warplanes bombed a residential neighborhood in Yemen's capital city Sanaa early on Thursday morning. ... More
Ouagadougou, September 17 (RHC)-- In news from Africa, Burkina Faso’s military has seized power in an apparent coup, after the presidential guard detained interim President Michel Kafando and dissolved the transitional government on Wednesday. ... More
Damascus, September 17 (RHC)-- The United Nations' special envoy to Syria is set to travel to the Arab country to hold discussions with the Syrian foreign minister concerning a peace plan aimed at helping resolve the ongoing deadly crisis there, a Syrian official says. ... More
Paris, September 17 (RHC)-- The European Union's border agency recently announced that well over 500,000 refugees have reached at the EU borders in 2015. This sudden influx has caused turmoil in European nations who are struggling to deal with the rising numbers of asylum seekers. ... More
New York, September 17 (RHC)-- Standard & Poor's ratings agency has downgraded its sovereign credit rating for Japan by one notch, saying that chances for the country being able to revive its economic growth are slim. ... More
Maputo, September 17 (RHC)-- The African nation of Mozambique has been declared free of landmines after its last known landmine was removed in the country's central region. The British Halo Trust charity organization, which has led the clearance in Mozambique, said on Thursday that it had removed nearly 171,000 landmines. ... More
President Obama has reauthorized Cuba's listing on the Trading with the Enemy Act, --an obsolete Act only in force against Cuba--, a move that allows him to continue to use executive authority to improve ties with Havana.... More
Mexico City, September 17 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Armed civilians suspected of being drug traffickers clashed violently with members of a rural defense force with a death toll of seven and two others injured in a municipality of the embattled state of Michoacan, Mexico, local officials reported. The incident occurred in the municipality of Lazaro Cardenas.... More
Mexico City, September 17 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Mexican Attorney General Arely Gomez announced on Wednesday that the remains of a second forcibly disappeared Ayotzinapa student have been identified by Austrian forensic experts, a finding that has been outright rejected by the parents of the missing students.... More
Quito, September 17 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Artisans from across Ecuador came to Quito's San Francisco Plaza for what has been called a Solidarity Fair. It is one of the spaces created for national producers to sell their goods, which range from clothing to food items and musical instruments. And while they praised the government for reforms that have benefited them, anti-government supporters rallied simultaneously demanding the reforms be dropped.... More
Santiago de Chile, September 17 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The lower chamber's Health Commission agreed Wednesday to legalize abortion in the most controversial case of the three presented in a governmental bill: rape. ... More
Bogotá, September 17 (teleSUR-RHC)-- After three months of investigation, former president of the Colombian Supreme Court, Jorge Pretelt, was accused Wednesday of bribery and of favoring the interests of the Fidupetrol oil company.... More
Asunción, September 17 (teleSUR-RHC)-- A shipment of over 650 kilograms of marijuana was found Tuesday hidden in cigarette boxes of a company belonging to President Horacio Cartes, the independent daily Ultima Hora reported. ... More
Buenos Aires, September 17 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Argentinian government officials are launching a legal investigation against Canadian mining company Barrick Gold after 15,000 liters of cyanide leaked into a local river from its Veladero mine located in the western province of San Juan.... More
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