Migrants gather at the closed Kastanies border crossing, near the Evros river, in an attempt to cross into Greece.  (Photo: EFE)

Athens, March 1 (RHC)-- Greece's government spokesman Stelios Petsas Saturday announced that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis administration has prevented some 7,000 people from entering his country across the border with Turkey.... More


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King of Lesotho arrives in Cuba

Havana, March 1 (RHC)-- The King of Lesotho, His Majesty Letsie III, arrived in Cuba  Saturday afternoon for an official visit aimed at strengthening bilateral ties and advancing their economic and commercial component.... More


An Iranian man wears a protective mask to prevent contracting coronavirus as he sits in a bus in Tehran.  (Photo: Reuters)

Tehran, February 29 (RHC)-- Iran has dismissed a "hypocritical" claim made by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo about making an offer to Tehran to help the Islamic Republic fight the new coronavirus, saying such remarks pursue political purposes and aim to distract the world public opinion.... More


Washington, February 29 (RHC)-- The United States House Judiciary Committee is launching a wide-ranging probe of Attorney General William Barr and the Justice Department, demanding briefings, documents and interviews with 15 officials as it tries to determine whether there has been improper political interference in federal law enforcement.... More


London, February 29 (RHC)-- Amnesty International has described Latin America in its 2019 annual report as a region where citizens were attacked for protesting and defending human and environmental rights, with governments often using measures in "flagrant disregard for their obligations under domestic and international law."... More


Mexico City, February 29 (RHC)-- In Mexico, one of the men who participated in the murder of award-winning journalist Javier Valdez has been sentenced to nearly 15 years in prison.  ... More


Bogota, February 29 (RHC)-- In Colombia, 51-year-old social leader Cristóbal Anaya González was found dead with a gunshot to the head this week, four days after he disappeared in a rural area in Colombia’s Santander region. ... More


New York, February 29 (RHC)-- Billionaire U.S. presidential hopeful and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has refused to apologize for his oversight of a secret New York Police Department intelligence program that targeted Muslim communities. ... More


A team of Chinese and German researchers have discovered the world's oldest fossils of Rossellids, pushing forward the history of similar sponge fossils by more than 300 million years.... More


Havana, February 29 (RHC) Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla denounced as interfering the suspension of remittances to the island through Western Union from all countries except the United States.... More


Havana, February 29 (RHC)-- From now on, birth, marriage, and death certificates in Cuba will not have an expiration date, as established in the Extraordinary Official Gazette Number 9 of 2020, published by the Ministry of Justice of the Republic.... More


Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez attended this Friday the Annual Review of the Tourism Sector for 2019 with Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz.... More


Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks during the Workers' Party 7th Congress, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Friday, Nov. 22, 2019.  (Photo: AP)

Brasilia, February 29 (RHC)-- Former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called on Congress and Brazilian citizens to defend democracy against the calls for a coup by ultra-right-wing ruler Jair Bolsonaro and retired general Augusto Heleno.... More


Damascus, February 29 (RHC)-- In Saudi Arabia, U.S. Marines held joint military exercises with their Saudi counterparts on the King Abdulaziz Naval Base. ... More


The Social Debt Observatory of Argentina recorded an increase in multidimensional poverty to 37.5 percent. (Photo: EFE)

Buenos Aires, February 29 (RHC)-- Multidimensional poverty in Argentina rose by 10 points in the last four years, from 27.2 percent of the population in 2015 to 37.5 percent in the third quarter of 2019, affecting 15.8 million people, according to the latest report of the Social Debt Observatory of the Catholic University of Argentina (UCA).... More


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