Bangkok, August 18 (RHC)-- In news from Thailand, at least 20 people have died after a bomb placed inside a Hindu shrine exploded Monday night in the capital Bangkok. ... More
Washington, August 18 (RHC)-- The head of the International Monetary Fund has called for European creditors to provide "significant" debt relief to Greece, after Greek lawmakers accepted harsh austerity measures to secure their third bailout in five years. ... More
United Nations, August 18 (RHC)-- The United Nations Security Council has approved a plan calling for an intra-Syrian "political process" to end the crisis in the country. ... More
Bayda, August 18 (RHC)-- The prime minister of Libya's internationally recognized government, Abdullah al-Thani, has retracted his recent offer to hand in his resignation. "The prime minister didn't submit his resignation. He backed down from his previous announcement," AFP quoted Thani's spokesperson, Hatem el-Ouraybi, as saying on Monday... More
Ramallah, August 18 (RHC)-- A female Palestinian prisoner in an Israeli jail has joined her brother and fellow inmate in an open-ended hunger strike in solidarity with hunger-striking prisoner Muhammad Allan, who is in a coma due to his poor health. ... More
Washington, August 18 (RHC)-- U.S. Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker says his immigration policy is "very similar" to the plan proposed by Republican front-runner Donald Trump which amounts to curtailing legal and illegal immigration. ... More
Sacramento, August 18 (RHC)-- Wildfires are raging across several western U.S. states amid the latest scientific warnings about climate change. Montana declared a state of emergency over the fires, which also burned across Idaho, Oregon, California and Washington state. ... More
Pretoria, August 18 (RHC)-- In South Africa, prosecutors have asked for Olympic and Paralympic runner Oscar Pistorius to be charged with murder, just days before he is due to be released from prison less than a year after being convicted of killing his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. ... More
Bogotá, August 18 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as the FARC, said the release of their 12,000 members currently detained in Colombian prisons must be part of the final peace agreement with the Colombian government, Reuters reported Monday.... More
Quito, August 18 (teleSUR-RHC)-- An Ecuadorean judge rejected on Monday a deportation request by the government against academic and writer Manuela Picq, whose immigrant status was found to be “irregular” by authorities during violent anti-government protests last Thursday.... More
Brasilia, August 18 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of several cities across Brazil on Monday, calling for the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff, in what her supporters have called a “smear campaign” promoted by right-wing opposition and the media. ... More
Santiago de Chile, August 18 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Chilean President Michelle Bachelet met with the new secretary-general of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Saeb Erekat, Monday, a few days after Erekat met with Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez.... More
Rio de Janeiro, August 18 (EFE-RHC)-- Brazilian police have dismantled a religious sect accused of subjecting its followers to slavery-like conditions while accumulating a fortune of close to 100 million reais (some $28.6 million) in donations, officials said. ... More
Mexico City, August 18 (teleSUR-RHC)-- A group of independent experts investigating the case of 43 missing students in Ayotzinapa, Mexico, revealed key evidence is missing in a report issued on Monday.... More
La Paz, August 18 (teleSUR-RHC)-- In an interview published Monday by Argentinean daily Pagina 12, Bolivian President Evo Morales revealed he will be meeting with presidential candidate Daniel Scioli.... More
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