Budapest, August 25 (RHC)-- More than 10,000 people fleeing violence in their home countries are surging through the Balkans in efforts to reach Hungary before the country seals its border. ... More
Berlin, August 25 (RHC)-- In Germany, a sports hall that has been converted into an emergency refugee shelter went up in flames this morning in the eastern town of Nauen. The town has seen anti-immigrant protests by right-wing groups in recent days. ... More
New York, August 25 (RHC)-- In news from financial markets, the Chinese stock market has continued to drop, following a dramatic plunge yesterday dubbed "Black Monday." The decline shook markets around the world. ... More
Manila, August 25 (RHC)-- In news from the Philippines, a U.S. Marine has testified in court that he choked a Filipino transgender woman until she was unconscious, but he claims he did not kill her. ... More
Gaza City, August 25 (RHC)-- Thousands of Palestinians, affiliated with a United Nations agency, have taken to the streets in the besieged Gaza Strip to protest against a recent budget cut announced by the UN body. ... More
London, Aguust 25 (RHC)-- A petition in the UK calling for the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his planned September visit to Britain is gaining further momentum. The number of petitioners calling for Netanyahu’s arrest has now almost reached the 80,000 mark. The petition was launched earlier this month and was posted on the government's website. ... More
Seattle, August 25 (RHC)-- In news from the U.S. state of Washington, officials say the wildfires burning across more than a quarter of a million acres in central Washington are now the largest in the state’s history. More than 1,000 firefighters and 700 National Guardsmen are battling the blazes. ... More
Washington, August 25 (RHC)-- The wildfires in Washington come as a new study links climate change to drier conditions that are helping fuel increasingly strong wildfires across the Pacific Northwest. ... More
Havana, August 25 (RHC)-- Cuba's 2015-2016 school year opens next Tuesday, September 1st with a registration of 1 million 792 thousand 600 students who will be guaranteed the necessary resources for their studies.... More
Havana, August 25 (RHC)-- Some 900 thousand citizens in eastern Cuba will benefit from a World Food Program´s country strategy aimed at reinforcing social and local protection systems focusing on food security.... More
Port-au-Prince, August 25 (RHC)-- A group of 23 Haitian youths will soon travel to Cuba to take medicine, engineering, economy and other higher education courses as part of permanent Cuban collaboration with that sister Caribbean nation.... More
Havana, August 25 (RHC)-- Cuban and Belgian entrepreneurs will meet on Thursday, August 27th in Havana to explore opportunities to diversify bilateral commercial exchange in sectors such as construction, telecommunications and the pharmaceutical industry.... More
Guatemala City, August 25 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Three more ministers from Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina's cabinet resigned on Monday, including the country's finance minister, amid an ongoing corruption scandal that appears to reach the highest levels of office.... More
Buenos Aires, August 25 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Argentina's socialist ruling party Front for Victory (FPV) scored another massive electoral victory in Tucuman that angered the opposition, which resorted to violence for a second day in a row on Monday, in events that included theft and torching ballot boxes, and attacking police. About 20 people were reportedly injured.... More
Bogotá, August 25 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Luis Almagro, secretary general of the Organization of American States (OAS), has concluded a four-day visit to Colombia Monday and spoke with optimism that the ongoing peace process with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) would reach a successful conclusion. ... More
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