Lima, October 27 ( RHC-Andina) -- The Canadian government-funded 'Grand Challenges Canada' and Concytec announced $2.2 million CAD in grants for 22 Bold Ideas from innovators based in Peru, seeking to find solutions for major health problems.... More
Buenos Aires, October 27 (RHC-EFE) -- An amateur paleontologist found the 500,000-year-old fossil of a giant ground sloth while digging in a well on his property in the southern Argentine coastal city of Mar del Plata, media reports said.... More
Cairo, October 25 (RHC)-- More than two dozen Egyptian policemen have lost their lives and scores of others wounded in a powerful explosion at a military checkpoint in the Sinai Peninsula of the North African country. ... More
Mexico City, October 25 (RHC-Xinhua) -- Mexico is joining international efforts to combat the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa, the Foreign Affairs Ministry said Friday.... More
Rome, October 25 (RHC)-- Workers in Italy have staged a nationwide strike to protest against the government’s economic policies including cuts to public services and labor reforms. ... More
Washington, October 25 (RHC)-- The World Trade Organization has ruled against the United States in a multinational dispute over the labeling of meat. The United States requires the disclosure of a meat product’s country of origin. But Mexico and Canada have argued the rules harm their livestock exports. ... More
Caracas, October 25 (teleSUR-RHC) -- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro fought back at what he described as "interventionist comments" of Spanish President Mariano Rajoy, after he made critical remarks to Lilian Tintori, wife of jailed Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez, about the South American country's democracy.... More
Manila, October 25 (RHC)-- Protests are continuing in the Philippines where a U.S. Marine is suspected of murdering a transgender woman. Outrage has focused on the so-called "Visiting Forces Agreement" -- a decades-old deal between the United States and the Philippines, which critics say has been used to shield U.S. soldiers from punishment. ... More
La Paz, October 25 (teleSUR-RHC) –- The Bolivian government is using funds from the country’s nationalized resources and industries to fund a program, social cash transfers, targeting vulnerable segments of the population, including expecting mothers, the elderly, and public school students.... More
Washington, October 25 (RHC)-- A U.S. federal judge has ordered the Barack Obama administration to outline in detail its reasons for concealing as many as 2,100 photographs showing the torture of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan. ... More
Mexico City, October 25 (RHC-PL) -- The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights urged the national authorities Friday to step up efforts to find the 43 students missing from the Normal Rural School of Ayotzinapa, in Iguala, Guerrero state.... More
London, October 25 (RHC)-- A British charity organization says 1.6 million pensioners in Britain live in poverty, as many of them miss out on entitled government benefits. The Age UK charity recently released a report, saying 900,000 of the pensioners live in “severe poverty.” ... More
Santiago, October 25 (RHC-Xinhua) -- Chile will apply the anti-terror law in the case of a young man who was killed by a homemade explosive blast last month, local media reported Friday.... More
Caracas, October 25 (RHC-Xinhua) -- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Friday nominated Carmen Melendez as Minister of the Interior, Justice and Peace, and Vladimir Padrino Lopez as the Minister of the country's Defense Ministry. ... More
Geneva, October 25 (RHC-BBC) -- Two Ebola vaccine candidates might be ready for testing in hard-hit West African countries in December, a month earlier than previously predicted. And one vaccine manufacturer has said it may have millions of doses available by April, should studies prove that it's safe and effective, a much more optimistic scenario than outlined until now.... More
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