Kampala, October 16 (RHC)-- Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has ordered an immediate lockdown and imposition of a dusk-till-dawn curfew for three weeks in two districts in a bid to stop the spread of Ebola. Places of worship, markets, bars and entertainment will be closed and restrictions have been placed on movement in and out of the two central districts of Mubende and Kassanda for 21 days.... More
Ramallah, October 16 (RHC)-- In a new act of provocation, a group of extremist Israeli settlers have attacked a school at a village near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, setting ablaze a classroom. Palestine’s Wafa news agency, citing local sources, reported on Sunday that the raid by Israeli settles took place at the village of Urif, south of Nablus in the middle of the night.... More
Mexico City, October 16 (RHC)-- Unidentified gunmen have opened fire in a bar in the central Mexican city of Irapuato, killing 12 people, including six women, local authorities said, the second mass shooting in the state of Guanajuato in less than a month.... More
Algiers, October 16 (RHC)-- The secretary general of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Haitham Al Ghais, said today that the black gold markets are going through a stage of great fluctuations. During his two-day visit to Algiers, he added that the objective of OPEC and non-OPEC producers is to maintain market stability.... More
Athens, October 16 (RHC)-- A man died and a woman was missing after powerful storms caused flooding on Greece’s biggest island of Crete, authorities have said. The Greek fire brigade said on Saturday that a 50-year-old man died and a woman was missing after their car was carried away in flash floods in the town of Agia Pelagia, about 25 kilometres (16 miles) northwest of Iraklio. They recovered the man from the vehicle that washed into the sea after it was swept up by raging waters.... More
San Salvador, October 16 (RHC)-- More than 55,000 suspected gang members have been arrested since President Nayib Bukele declared a so-called “war” on criminal groups seven months ago, the country’s justice minister has said, as the legislative assembly voted in favour of a further extension of a controversial state of emergency.... More
Islamabad, October 16 (RHC)--- Pakistan has summoned the American ambassador to Islamabad for an official demarche on US President Joe Biden’s remarks on the country’s nuclear weapons. In a speech on Thursday, Biden questioned the safety of Pakistan's nuclear program. He said Pakistan is "maybe one of the most dangerous nations in the world" as it has "nuclear weapons without any cohesion.”... More
Sydney, October 15 (RHC)-- Australian authorities have announced the first death from days of widespread flash flooding on Saturday, despite flood levels topping out across much of the southeast. Hundreds of homeowners began a long clean-up after storm waters engulfed streets, houses and cars across three states, with Melbourne suburbs among the worst hit.... More
Bogota, October 16 (RHC)-- At least 20 people died and 15 others were injured when a bus overturned on the Pan-American Highway in southwestern Colombia. The bus was travelling between the port city of Tumaco, in the southwestern corner of Colombia, and Cali, 320 km (200 miles) to the northeast, when the incident occurred on Saturday.... More
Washington, October 16 (RHC)-- The gunman believed to have killed five people in North Carolina in America's latest mass shooting is a 15-year-old boy, in critical condition after being shot by police, officials said Friday. Two more people were wounded in the Thursday night shooting, the motive of which remains under investigation, Raleigh police chief Estella Patterson told a news conference in the state capital.... More
Fort Lauderdale, October 16 (RHC)-- The Miami Herald has published shocking footage showing how 62-year-old Florida prisoner Craig Ridley was left to starve and die after prison guards broke his neck in 2017. ... More
Port-au-Prince, October 16 (RHC)-- Gangsters blockading a major fuel terminal in Haiti are causing catastrophic hunger on the island, United Nations officials have said, with more than four million people facing severe insecurity and more than 19,000 others suffering from famine.... More
La Paz, October 16 (RHC)-- Bolivian President Luis Arce called on Saturday for the unity of the country's social organizations to confront the reorganization actions of the right-wing coup plotters who seek to destabilize the national government.... More
Gaza City, October 16 (RHC)-- Thousands of people in the besieged Gaza Strip have protested in solidarity with fellow Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem amid a wave of violence by Israeli forces.... More
New York, October 16 (RHC)-- The pace of sales at U.S. retailers was unchanged in September from August as rising prices for rent and food chipped away at the money available for other things. Retail sales were flat last month, down from a revised. 0.4 percent growth in August, the Commerce Department reported on Friday. Retail sales fell 0.4 percent in July.... More
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