London, May 29 (RHC)-- Britain has agreed to hold a United Nations' climate summit in November 2021, after the event originally planned for later this year had to be postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak.... More


Washington, May 29 (RHC)-- The U.S. has threatened to impose sanctions against two tankers carrying Iranian gasoline to fuel-starved Venezuela, a Wall Street Journal report says.... More


Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi

Tehran, May 29 (RHC)-- Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman says the United States must admit defeat and start respecting the Iranian nation instead of further humiliating itself.  "We do shatter your max pressure campaign with maximum resistance, stiffening resolve and reliance on the national capabilities,” said Abbas Mousavi in a tweet on Thursday night, addressing US officials.... More


Brasilia, May 29 (RHC)-- Brazil registered a record number of COVID-19 cases Thursday, with more than 1,000 deaths in just 24 hours. ... More


Washington, May 29 (RHC)-- U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order Thursday seeking to strip social media giants like Twitter of legal immunity for content posted by users.  If this was enacted, the likes of Twitter and Facebook would become open to lawsuits and greatly increased government regulation.... More


Havana, May 29 (RHC)-- The president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, regretted that the international media excluded the Caribbean island among the nations with the best response to the confrontation of COVID-19 in the region.... More


Havana, May 29 (RHC)-- Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel denounced that the silence of the U.S. government concerning the aggression against the Cuban embassy in Washington, DC is evidence of its complicity in the events.... More


New York, May 29 (RHC)-- Across the United States, thousands of people took to the streets to protest the police killing of George Floyd.  In New York City, police arrested at least 70 people during a rolling protest that began in Manhattan’s Union Square.  ... More


Washington, May 29 (RHC)-- On Twitter, U.S. President Donald Trump attacked Minneapolis’s mayor, who has called for the arrest of now-fired police officer Derek Chauvin over the killing of George Floyd. ... More


Havana, May 29 (RHC) -- Silvio releases a new album, Para la espera, in the midst of a pandemic that has largely stopped the world’s usual dynamics. The new work will be launched on June 12 on the main social media... More


Havana, May 29 (RHC)-- The National Director of Epidemiology of the Cuban Ministry of Public Health, Dr. Francisco Duran, reported that there were 22 new cases of COVID-19, for an total of 2,005 positive cases across the island.  ... More


Tegucigalpa, May 29 (RHC)-- The three main political forces in Honduras and two other parties in the National Congress coincided in a unanimous pronouncement to thank the Cuban medical brigade for its solidarity work against COVID-19 in that country.... More


Minneapolis, May 29 (RHC)-- In Minnesota, parts of Minneapolis erupted in flames Wednesday night as residents took to the streets for a second night to protest the death of George Floyd, a Black man killed by police on Monday. ... More


Caracas, May 29 (RHC)-- Venezuela's Central Bank (BCV) and United Nations Development Program (UNDP) have agreed to use part of the gold deposited in the Bank of England to acquire food and medicine to face the COVID-19 pandemic, BCV President Calixto Ortega declared on Wednesday.... More


Washington, May 29 (RHC)-- In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the rates of child hunger are soaring across the United States.  Despite the surge, a federal program to feed schoolchildren who’ve been cut off from school meals during the pandemic has reached only a small fraction of the 30 million students it was intended to help. ... More


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