Rome, July 25 (RHC)-- A wildfire has closed the Palermo airport in Sicily, and storms have killed at least two people in northern Italy as extreme weather batters the length of the country. The airport in the Sicilian capital was shut for several hours until 11am (09:00 GMT) on Tuesday as firefighters were putting out a blaze nearby that also disrupted road and rail traffic.... More
Caracas, July 25 (RHC)-- teleSUR, the first multi-state broadcaster in Latin America and the Caribbean, was born as a television channel on July 24, 2005, coinciding with the birthday of the Liberator Simón Bolívar.... More
London, July 25 (RHC)-- About 1,000 rapes and 2,336 sexual assaults were reported to have taken place in prisons since 2010, according to exclusive data obtained by the Observer from police forces in England and Wales. A notable increase in reported rapes and sexual assaults was reported in the years after 2016, clashing with the period when austerity began to rise, according to the figures obtained by The Guardian from the Observer.... More
London, July 25 (RHC)-- A British education charity working with the government has tied high absence rates in schools across the UK to what it describes as "insecure, unsuitable and poor-quality housing." School-Home Support (SHS), which helps pupils in Britain to overcome barriers to education, reports that 19 percent of the children it works with this academic year cite their accommodations as a major barrier to attending school.... More
Tel Aviv, July 24 (RHC)-- Israeli police have clashed with anti-regime protesters outside the Knesset (parliament), hours ahead of a vote on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul plan. On Monday, police used water cannon against protesters who blocked the entrance of Knesset. Several arrests were also reported.... More
Mexico City, July 24 (RHC)-- Thousands of migrants are sleeping on the streets of Mexico, waiting to get an appointment for an interview at the U.S. border, only to be deported back to dangerous and impossible living conditions.... More
New Delhi, July 24 (RHC)-- Thousands of tribals, mostly women, have staged a massive sit-in protest in India’s Manipur, demanding the arrest of those involved in the harrowing mob assaults on two women, as the opposition parties slammed the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for failing to stop violence in the northeastern state bordering Myanmar.... More
Caracas, July 24 (RHC)-- Today, July 24th, teleSUR celebrates another anniversary. Throughout 18 years, teleSUR has focused on Latin American integration issues, offering coverage of events that do not find space in other media.... More
London, July 24 (RHC)-- The passage of the British government’s anti-immigration bill shows that the authorities are desperate to show they have a strategy for limiting illegal migration but it’s known to everyone that this strategy won’t work, says a former British diplomat.... More
Lisbon, July 24 (RHC)-- The Portuguese parliament has overwhelmingly voted in favor of a resolution recognizing Nakba Day or “Day of Catastrophe,” when Israel was created at the expense of the forced expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homeland.... More
Quito, July 23 (RHC)-- With one month to go before the August 20th presidential elections in Ecuador, the level of undecided voters reaches 59.5 percent, according to the Cedatos poll revealed Friday. ... More
Athens, July 23 (RHC)-- Residents and tourists have fled hot spots on the Greek island of Rhodes as firefighters, backed by water jets and helicopters, battle a blaze that sparked the country’s largest-ever fire evacuation. Wind gusts of up to 49 km/h (30 mph) were complicating efforts to bring the flames under control on Sunday.... More
Saint John, July 23 (RHC)-- In the Caribbean, The Sppare Project is moving forward in Antigua and Bermuda with the installation of 15 wind turbines at the Parham Ridge and Sir Vivian Richards wind farms, respectively. The first 13 will power the Crabbs reverse osmosis plant, which will be taken over by Parham Ridge.... More
Washington, July 23 (RHC)-- The U.S. Justice Department has told Texas that its floating barrier of wrecking ball-sized buoys on the Rio Grande River violates federal law and raises humanitarian concerns for migrants and asylum seekers crossing into the country from Mexico.... More
Jerusalem, July 23 (RHC)-- Tens of thousands of Israelis have headed toward the occupied city of al-Quds to voice their opposition to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's extremist policies, amid months-long anti-regime protests.... More
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