Guatemala City, January 10 (RHC)-- Outgoing Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales says his government has not agreed to receive Mexicans who wish to seek asylum in the United States. Under a bilateral agreement, the United States can send Honduran and Salvadoran asylum seekers to Guatemala to instead seek asylum there.... More


New York, January 10 (RHC)-- Facebook is insisting that it will not limit lies in political campaign ads, refusing to back down from a policy that has come under massive criticism from lawmakers and voting rights activists. ... More


-Cuba's Minister of Economy and Planning, Alejandro Gil.

Cuba's Minister of Economy and Planning, Alejandro Gil, considered it as "something commendable" that the Cuban economy didn't decline in recent months, despite the restrictions imposed by the U.S. blockade.... More


Bobby Carcasses

Havana, January 10 (RHC)-- Cuban multi-instrumentalist Bobby Carcassés will open the 35th edition of the Jazz Plaza International Festival, which will take place in Havana from the 14th to the 19th of this month, its organizers announced on Thursday.... More


Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza at a press conference at La Casa Amarilla in Caracas.  (Photo: Cancilleria de Venezuela)

Caracas, January 10 (RHC)-- Venezuela's Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza Thursday denounced that the U.S. government is promoting a plan to intervene in the elections of the National Assembly to be held in 2020.... More


Interior Minister Arturo Murillo shows handcuffs for Evo Morales.  (Photo: Ministerio de Gobierno)

La Paz, January 10 (RHC)-- Wielding a pair of handcuffs, Bolivia's Interior Minister Arturo Murillo Wednesday announced that he asked Interpol to activate an international arrest warrant for former President Evo Morales who is accused of sedition and terrorism by the coup-based government led by Jeanine Añez.... More


Baghdad, January 10 (RHC)-- Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammad Ali al-Hakim has stressed the need for U.S. and other foreign troops to leave Iraq as a backlash grows over the recent  American assassination of a top Iranian general in Baghdad.... More


Ambassador Carlos Miguel Pereira addresses guests at Cuban Embassy in China. PL Photo

Beijing, January 10 (RHC)--  Cuba opened on Thursday the official program of activities to  celebrate six decades of diplomatic relations with China, in an evening that also served as a tribute to the 61st anniversary of its Revolution.... More


Havana, January 10 (RHC)-- The President of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, attended on Thursday the opening ceremony of the 2020 Judicial Year. He described the event as an expression of the strengthening of the institutionality of the nation's justice system.... More


Havana, January 10 (RHC)-- The Cuban Ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg and the European Union, Norma Goicochea, expressed her gratitude Thursday to the Confederal Group of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL) in Brussels for their solidarity with the Caribbean island.... More


Antiguan Prime Minister Gaston Browne.

Kingston, January 10 (RHC)--Antigua and Barbuda says the Cuban revolution of 1959 represents “an incredible victory against wind and tide and a symbol of freedom in a world dominated by oppression,” reported Friday Jamaican newspaper The Gleaner.... More


Washington, January 9 (RHC)-- The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to approve a war powers resolution aiming to limit President Donald Trump’s ability to take future military action against Iran without congressional authorization. ... More


Brasilia, January 9 (RHC)-- Brazil's Workers Party leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says that far-right President Jair Bolsonaro should stop "kneeling" before U.S. President Donald Trump with his support of the U.S. offensive launched on January 2nd against Iran.... More


New York, January 9 (RHC)-- The international trend is skeptical of whether the president of the United States will do something right in foreign policy, as shown by the results of a survey conducted by Pew Research even before he had approved the drone attack that killed Iranian General Qassem Soleimani last week.... More


Washington, January 9 (RHC)-- U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an emergency declaration for Puerto Rico, after a 6.4 magnitude earthquake killed at least one person and sparked a massive power outage that plunged nearly the entire population into darkness.... More


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