United Nations, December 20 (RHC)-- UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has underlined the need for preserving the 2015 landmark Iran nuclear deal, urging the world countries to engage in trade ties with Tehran based on Security Council Resolution 2231 that endorsed the agreement.... More


London, December 20 (RHC)-- A major cyber attack that has hit U.S. government agencies is also believed to have affected a small number of British organizations.... More


Kabul, December 19 (RHC)-- The largest U.S. and NATO air base in Afghanistan, Bagram Airfield, was attacked this Saturday morning with at least four rockets, reports the TOLOnews channel.... More


Caracas, December 19 (RHC)-- With the presence of Venezuela's Executive Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, the people of that nation paid homage to the outstanding fighter José Vicente Rangel, in a chapel installed in the Federal Legislative Palace in the capital, Caracas.... More


Moscow, December 19 (RHC)-- The Donald Trump administration has informed Congress of its plan to shut down the two remaining US consulates in Russia amid heightened tensions with Moscow.  The State Department will shutter its consulate in Vladivostok and suspend operations at one in Yekaterinburg.  The closures would leave the U.S. embassy in Moscow as Washington’s only diplomatic outpost in Russia.... More


United Nations, December 19 (RHC)-- United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged world leaders to ensure COVID-19 vaccines are made available and affordable for “all people” amid mounting concerns stocks could be hoovered up by wealthy nations at the expense of poorer ones.... More


Beijing, December 19 (RHC)-- China has urged the United States to stop its “unjustified” crackdown on Chinese companies, following reports that Washington plans to add dozens of Chinese companies to a trade blacklist.... More


Caracas, December 19 (RHC)-- The United States has imposed what Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has called "stupid sanctions" on a Venezuelan company that assisted the country’s parliamentary elections.... More


Havana, December 19 (RHC)-- Cuba reported in the last 15 days 736 infections of COVID-19, for a rate of 6.57 per 100 thousand inhabitants.... More


Havana, December 19 (RHC)-- Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez spoke by telephone with his Bahamian counterpart Darren Henfield on bilateral interest issues.... More


Havana, December 19 (RHC) The Cuban State Budget for 2021 will support similar activity levels as in previous years. However, it takes on other dimensions due to the impact of the devaluation of the Cuban peso and the effect of the COVID-19, said this Friday the Minister of Finance and Prices, Meisi Bolaños Weiss.... More


United Nations, December 18 (RHC)-- The number of deaths recorded on migratory routes fell this year, although COVID-19 difficulties and so-called “invisible shipwrecks” mean the real number is probably much higher, officials at the United Nations migration agency said.... More


Washington, December 18 (RHC)-- News reports from the United States say 28 children and their families are scheduled to be deported, including a 4-year-old girl with a broken arm in need of surgery.  The families are from Central and South America, and Haiti. ... More


Havana, December 18 (RHC)--The first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, Raúl Castro, and President Miguel Díaz-Canel paid tribute on Friday to the historian of Havana, Eusebio Leal, who died last July 31.... More


Washington, December 18 (RHC)-- Former U.S. National Security advisor General Michael Flynn has once again suggested that outgoing US President Donald Trump could use the military to force an election “rerun” in battleground states, saying such measure is “not unprecedented.”... More


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