Paris, December 3 (RHC) --Cuba denounced at the Executive Council of UNESCO on Wednesday the obstacle the US unilateral coercive measures and their extraterritorial character represent for the access to the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).... More
Paris, December 3 (RHC)--The national secretary of the French Communist Party (PCF), Fabien Roussel, urged U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on Wednesday to end the economic, commercial, and financial blockade against Cuba and to take the road to peace.... More
Havana, December 3 (RHC) --The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, held a telephone conversation Wednesday with the Secretary-General of the Communist Party and President of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong.... More
Baghdad, December 3 (RHC)-- The United States is temporarily withdrawing some staff from its embassy in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. The decision comes in the wake of the assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist near Tehran and ahead of the anniversary of the assassination of Iran’s top commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani.... More
Washington, December 3 (RHC)-- Claiming that the U.S. electoral system was under attack, President Donald Trump said he would fight to ensure only legal votes are counted, adding that the media rushed to ‘anoint’ Joe Biden as the winner of a ‘very strange’ election.... More
Washington, December 2 (RHC)-- A senior American official has acknowledged that the Israeli regime was behind the assassination of an Iranian scientist, CNN reports. The official, however, “declined to give details about whether the Trump administration knew about the attack before it was carried out or provided support," according to the report released Wednesday.... More
Beijing, December 2 (RHC)-- China has called on the United States to correct its mistake and lift all illegal sanctions on the country, after Washington imposed bans against the China National Electronics Import & Export Corporation (CEIEC) over doing business with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s government.... More
The Hague, December 2 (RHC)-- In The Hague, climate justice advocates have opened their case against fossil fuel giant Shell. The case is led by Friends of the Earth and is backed by over 17,000 Dutch citizens and six other climate organizations. ... More
Sydney, December 2 (RHC)-- In Australia, firefighters continue to battle a massive bushfire that’s destroyed half of Queensland’s Fraser Island — the world’s largest sand island and a UNESCO World Heritage site. ... More
New York, December 2 (RHC)-- Puerto Rican poet, writer and founder of the legendary Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Miguel Algarín, has died at the age of 79. ... More
Washington, December 2 (RHC)-- Multiple news organizations are reporting U.S. President Donald Trump has discussed preemptively pardoning several members of his family, including three of his children — Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric — as well as his son-in-law Jared Kushner and attorney Rudy Giuliani. ... More
London, December 2 (RHC)-- Britain on Wednesday became the first country to approve a COVID-19 vaccine for general use, announcing a rollout of Pfizer-BioNTech's jab from next week in a historic advance for humanity's fightback against the coronavirus.... More
New York, December 2 (RHC)-- According to reports from the United States, more information has come to light about the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. A new study reveals COVID-19 was likely already in the United States in mid-December of 2019, weeks before it was first identified in China. ... More
Washington, December 2 (RHC)-- The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments this week in a case pitting six former child slave laborers against Nestlé USA and Cargill. The men were trafficked from Mali as children and forced to work on cocoa plantations in Ivory Coast, where they were routinely tortured. ... More
Havana, December 2 (RHC)-- Party authorities convened the VIII Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba to be held between April 16 and 19, 2021, during the political rally for the 60th anniversary of the founding of the system of schools of the political organization.... More
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