Benjamin Netanyahu poses with a placard given while visiting a Jordan Valley settlement.  (Photo: © REUTERS/Amir Cohen)

Tel Aviv, December 9 (RHC)-- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants Washington to approve of Israel's further expansion into the Jordan Valley, just days after he urged Donald Trump not to miss a rare chance to back Tel Aviv's territorial appetites.... More


 Fires seen from Depot Beach in New South Wales state.  (Photo: Josh Burkinshaw)

Sydney, December 9 (RHC)-- Fires raging out of control in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) have merged into what firefighters dubbed a "mega fire," escalating the destruction of the country's worst fire season on record.... More


Ambulances and a firefighting vehicle at deadly fire that swept through a New Delhi factory.  (Photo: © ANI/via REUTERS)

New Delhi, December 9 (RHC)-- At least 43 people have been killed after a fire erupted at a house in New Delhi, trapping scores of workers inside the burning building. Multiple fire units rushed to the scene in an attempt to fight the blaze.... More


Brussels, December 9 (RHC)-- A huge number of people turned out on Sunday in Brussels to show their support for greater political action to save the planet from the threat posed by global warming.... More


Havana, December 9 (RHC) - The 23rd International Handicraft Fair is currently underway at the Pabexpo Exhibition Halls until December 21 under the slogan ‘art, usefulness and trade.’... More


Buenos Aires, December 9 (RHC)--The president of Cuba, Miguel Diaz-Canel, met with Argentinean businesspeople on Monday.... More


Havana, December 9 (RHC)-- The democratically-elected President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, congratulated the Movement for Socialism (MAS) Party after having successfully completed its assembly, in which he endorsed its democratic vocation and presented its plan of political struggle to recover the government from the new far-right regime.... More


Brazilian representative to Palestine Francisco Mauro Brasil de Holanda. (Photo: Reuters)

Ramallah, December 8 (RHC)-- The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates has summoned the Brazilian representative to Palestine to express its outrage over a recent visit by a Brazilian legislator to a settlement in the central part of the occupied West Bank.... More


New York, December 8 (RHC)-- A retired New York police officer has revealed the police department’s Transit District 34 in Brooklyn encouraged officers to arrest Black and Latino men in exchange for rewards. ... More


Raleigh, December 8 (RHC)-- In the United States, the University of North Carolina is facing student and faculty protests after the school secretly agreed to provide $2.5 million to a neo-confederate organization to preserve and display a confederate statue known as Silent Sam. ... More


Women clean inside the Basilica de Guadalupe in Mexico City.  (Photo: Reuters)

Mexico City, December 8 (RHC)-- Zoe Robledo, director general of the Mexican Institute of Social Security, has explained the scope of a civic security pilot plan that seeks to benefit the domestic sector, one of the most forgotten in the country and mostly composed by women.... More


Nairobi, December 8 (RHC)-- The Vice President of the Cuban Council of Ministers, Inés María Chapman Waugh, arrived in Kenya to represent the island at the 9th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Association of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (ACP).... More


Havana, December 8 (RHC)-- The Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Audrey Azoulay, has concluded her official visit to Cuba.... More


Havana, December 8 (RHC)-- Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez highlighted on Sunday the sovereign and dignified policy of the Caribbean nations concerning Cuba, on the 47th anniversary of those ties.... More


Havana, December 8 (RHC)-- Army General Raúl Castro Ruz paid tribute Sunday to outstanding revolutionary Faure Chomón Mediavilla, with an Honor Guard held at the Christopher Columbus Cemetery in Havana.... More


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