Tripoli, October 20 (RHC)-- At least 75 people have been killed in the northeastern Libyan city of Benghazi during five days of clashes between pro-government forces and militias. In the latest wave of violence hitting the city on Sunday, nine people lost their lives. ... More
Bogotá, October 20 (RHC-EFE) -- The National Liberation Army, or the ELN, Colombia's second-largest guerrilla group, said it had meetings in recent months with President Juan Manuel Santos's administration aimed at starting peace talks with the government.... More
Brussels, October 20 (RHC)-- Thousands of Belgians have taken to the streets of the capital, Brussels, to protest against broad reforms planned by the new government. The Sunday protest was organized by the Workers' Party of Belgium (PTB). According to the police, some 4,800 people participated in the demonstration. Organizers, however, put the number at over 7,000. ... More
Caracas, October 20 (RHC-Xinhua) -- Venezuelans who marched in the streets of Caracas Saturday against violence, were split between government supporters, who rejected terrorism; and opponents, who protested against soaring crime rates in the South American country.... More
Berlin, October 20 (RHC)-- One of the biggest strikes by German train drivers over pay and working hours has caused disruption across the country, Press TV reports. ... More
Mexico City, October 20 (RHC-Xinhua) -- At least six people have been killed since Saturday when tropical storm Trudy battered Mexico, local Civil Protection authorities said Sunday.... More
Lima, October 20 (RHC-Andina) -– More than 40 representatives of the Regional Indigenous Peoples Organization of the East (ORPIO) and the Confederation of Amazonian Nationalities of Peru (CONAP) gathered in the city of Iquitos, Loreto region to get information and prepare local proposals to COP20.... More
Washington, Oct 18, (RHC), – While Kurdish forces continue to make more gains in their battle against ISIL militants, a top US military commander says it is “highly possible” that the Syrian border city of Kobani could fall into the hands of ISIL terrorists.... More
Geneva, October 18 (RHC), -- The World Health Organization says it is focusing efforts on 15 African countries to prevent the spread of the growing Ebola outbreak from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. The official toll in those countries surpassed 4,500 this week. Of the 15 at-risk countries, WHO global director Isabelle Nuttall said Mali and the Ivory Coast are the most vulnerable.... More
Kingston, October 18 (RHC-PL), -- Jamaica's Prime Minister, Portia Simpson Miller, says the country is in a "national emergency" over the outbreak of Chikungunya virus in the country.... More
Dallas, October 18 (RHC), -- With two nurses suffering from Ebola in the United States, concern has been raised that hospitals are not adequately protecting workers from Ebola. According to the union National Nurses United, 76 percent of 2,000 nurses surveyed said their hospitals had not communicated any policy to them regarding admission of potentially infected patients.... More
Ramallah, October 17 (RHC)-- The Palestinian government aims to ask the United Nations Security Council to pass a resolution requiring Israel's retreat to the pre-1967 line. "The political council of the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) decided during its meeting last night... to go to the UN Security Council with the aim of getting a resolution passed to end the Israeli occupation in the Palestinian territories... by the end of this month," PLO Secretary General Yasser Abed Rabbo told reporters in Ramallah on Thursday. ... More
Caracas, October 17 (RHC-Xinhua) -- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro hailed on Thursday the admission of his country as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council for the next two years.... More
Freetown, October 17 (RHC)-- The fatal Ebola virus has claimed the lives of at least two people in Sierra Leone's last unaffected area. The victims died in the northern Koinadugu district of Sierra Leone, the country's officials announced on Thursday. ... More
Mexico City, October 17 (RHC-NNN) -- Mystery deepens over the fate of 15 students who disappeared last month after clashes with police in the town of Iguala in Mexico. Vigilantes and volunteers found new, freshly-dug graves on Thursday, some with human remains in them, bringing to 19 the total number of graves found so far.... More
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