Bonn, October 24 (RHC-Andina) -- Peru's Environment Minister Manuel Pulgar-Vidal acknowledged the 20th Conference of Parties to the UN Convention on Climate Change (COP20) in Lima is a great chance for Peru to become more environmentally-friendly.... More
Washington, October 23 (RHC)-- The United States put its air defense on alert and placed its embassy in Ottawa on lock-down following shooting incidents in Canada including one inside its parliament building. ... More
Mexico City, October 23 (RHC-Xinhua) -- Renowned intellectuals from around the world have joined an international outcry demanding justice in the case of 43 students missing since late September in Mexico.... More
Washington, October 23 (RHC)-- A federal jury in the United States on Wednesday found four former Blackwater security guards guilty of shootings of over 30 unarmed Iraqis in Baghdad in 2007. ... More
Ramallah, October 23 (RHC)-- The Israeli regime has beaten or assaulted dozens of Palestinian minors while they were in Israeli custody, the Palestinian government says. A statement issued by the Palestinian Authority Department of Prisoners' Affairs on Wednesday cited the testimonies of two Palestinian minors as evidence of the Israeli regime's abuse of Palestinian children. ... More
Geneva, October 23 (RHC)-- The Ebola epidemic has so far claimed the lives of 4,877 people all around the world, while more than 9,936 people have been infected, according to the World Health Organization, the WHO. ... More
Quito, October 23 (teleSUR-RHC), -- Ecuador's budget plan for 2015 has been announced with strategic sectors having the largest investment at 35 percent. The main areas of investment include electric and hydraulic resources as well as hydrocarbons and the social sector.... More
Mexico City, October 23 (RHC-EFE) -- The mayor of the southern Mexican city of Iguala and his wife were behind the Sept. 26 attacks on trainee teachers that left six people dead and 43 students missing, the federal Attorney General's Office said Wednesday.... More
Freetown, October 23 (RHC)-- African Union chief, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, is expected to visit three West African countries hit the hardest by the deadly Ebola virus. On Wednesday, an unnamed spokesman for the AU chief said in a statement that the official would visit Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea "to assess the situation first hand." ... More
Panama City, October 23 (NNN-EFE) -- The Panamanian government on Wednesday announced that it has banned the arrival of travelers from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea as a preventive measure against Ebola.... More
Kabul, October 23 (RHC)-- At least five people have been killed by a US drone strike in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province. According to local officials, the causalities from Wednesday's attack were all members of the Taliban militant group. ... More
New York, October 23 (RHC-Mercopress) -- A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday dismissed the Argentinian government's appeal for an order directing Bank of New York Mellon Corp to hold onto $539 million the country deposited for its restructured bondholders.... More
Baghdad, October 23 (RHC)-- At least 37 people have been killed and dozens more injured as two separate car bombs rock Iraq's capital Baghdad. At least 27 people were killed and 37 others injured after a car bomb exploded near a service station in Baghdad's central district of Karrada on Wednesday. ... More
Montevideo, October 23 (teleSUR-RHC), -- The presidential electoral campaign in Uruguay came to an end on Thursday with the general election taking place on Sunday.... More
La Paz, October 23 (RHC-NNN) -- To overcome the acute road traffic congestion in this mountainous Andean nation, the Bolivian government is taking to the skies. It is building a series of cable car systems that will provide inexpensive transportation and supplement the service currently being provided by 40,000 minibuses.... More
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