United Nations, November 26 (RHC)-- The United Nations says the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip has cost the densely-populated Palestinian enclave an estimated $16.7 billion in economic losses and sent poverty and unemployment skyrocketing.... More
Washington, November 26 (RHC)-- Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, pleaded guilty to three criminal charges, admitting responsibility for its role in fueling the devastating opioid epidemic that has killed hundreds of thousands of people. The charges included offering illegal kickbacks to doctors in exchange for them writing more prescriptions. ... More
Washington, November 26 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Montana, two U.S. citizens who were apprehended by Customs and Border Protection for speaking Spanish while grocery shopping have reached a settlement in their racial profiling lawsuit against the Trump administration. ... More
McAllen, November 26 (RHC)-- The U.S. Border Patrol is temporarily closing a converted warehouse used to detain immigrants in South Texas for renovation. The McAllen facility garnered international attention when images emerged of children separated from their parents detained in chain-link cages inside.... More
Berlin, November 26 (RHC)-- German media giant Bertelsmann said Wednesday that it is buying publisher Simon & Schuster from ViacomCBS for $2.17 billion in cash. Bertelsmann says the New York-based firm, whose authors include Stephen King, Hillary Clinton and John Irving, will become a unit within its book-publishing division Penguin Random House.... More
Geneva, November 26 (RHC)-- The Israel blockade of the Gaza Strip cost the Palestinian enclave more than $16 billion and pushed more than one million people below the poverty line in just more than 10 years, according to a new United Nations report.... More
Havana, November 26 (RHC)— The Ministry of Public Health reported 49 new COVID-19 cases. In the last 24 hours 10 596 samples were tested for the detection of the disease.... More
Buenos Aires, November 26 (RHC)-- Argentineans gathered at the Casa Rosada presidential palace in Buenos Aires on Thursday, where the casket of football/soccer icon Diego Maradona lay in state, draped in an Argentinean flag and his famous Number 10 shirt.... More
Buenos Aires, November 26 (RHC)-- As the world mourns the death of soccer’s legendary player, Diego Maradona, many people are also paying tribute to his vocal support for revolutionary causes, including Palestinian independence.... More
Santiago de Chile, November 26 (RHC)-- Women around the world and throughout Latin America marched on Wednesday, November 25th, to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women in the region.... More
Washington, November 26 (RHC)-- Americans have defied pleas from officials to stay home for the Thanksgiving holiday amid record-breaking COVID-19 cases in recent days. The U.S. has recorded 2.3 million new infections in the past two weeks, adding an average of 173,000 new daily virus cases.... More
Havana, November 26 (RHC)—The President of the National Assembly of People’s Power, Esteban Lazo Hernandez, convened the Sixth Ordinary Session of the 9th Legislature. It will take place at 9:00 am, December 16, at Havana’s Convention Center.... More
Nablus, November 26 (RHC)-- The Israeli regime has released Palestinian inmate Maher al-Akhras, who was on hunger strike for more than 100 days in protest at his detention without charge, in what he hailed as yet another victory against the occupying entity.... More
Havana, November 25 (RHC)-- A political-cultural gala on the fourth anniversary of the passing of the Cuban Revolution leader, Fidel Castro Ruz, took place on the steps of Havana University Wednesday evening. President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez attended the event.... More
Santiago de Cuba, November 25 (RHC) The Covid-19 outbreak that has kept this province in tension for the last two weeks has a transmission speed higher than the beginning of the pandemic in March, a health authority estimated here today.... More
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