Lebanese workers clean up an oil spill near the city of Tripoli in 2009.  (Photo: AFP)

United Nations, November 18 (RHC)-- The United Nations General Assembly Second Committee has overwhelmingly approved a draft resolution that urges Israel to pay Lebanon over $850 million in compensation for a major oil spill during the regime's 2006 war on the Arab country.... More


Seattle, November 18 (RHC)-- U.S. technology company Microsoft says it is investigating whether the use of facial recognition technology developed by an Israeli startup it funded “complies with its ethics principles,” following reports that Israel uses the company’s facial recognition technology for surveillance on Palestinians.... More


Havana, November 18 (RHC) -- Good films from Scotland will be screened in the Cuban capital in November and December... More


Havana, November 18 (RHC)-- The VII International Meeting of Agroecology, Sustainable Agriculture and Cooperativism is starting on Monday in the Cuban capital with the participation of some  140 delegates from 26 countries.... More


Rogelio Sierra. File Photo.

Havana, November 18 (RHC)-- Cuban Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Rogelio Sierra Díaz concluded Saturday an official visit to Saint Kitts and Nevis.... More


Cuban authorities welcome the four health workers who were arrested arbitrarily in El Alto last week. Twitter photo

Havana, November 18 (RHC)-- With the arrival in the early hours of Monday of 207 Cuban health workers who were in Bolivia, there are now 431 professionals who have come back to the island.... More


Former governor of the Ecuadorean province of Esmeraldas, Paola Cabezas

Quito, November 18 (RHC)-- The former governor of the Ecuadorean province of Esmeraldas, Paola Cabezas, publicly thanked the Cuban Medical Brigade for its work, as part of the agreement maintained for years between the two governments and recently finalized by Ecuador.... More


President Nicolas Maduro says Venezuelan Armed Forces will never again kneel down to the U.S. or the oligarchy of Venezuela.  (Photo: VTV)

Caracas, November 18 (RHC)-- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro denounced this Sunday that the country's right-wing has received more than $400 million with the objective of buying politicians, policemen and members of the Bolivarian National Armed Force, to put them at the service of foreign nations' interests.... More


President Evo Morales speaks to teleSUR Spanish on November 16, 2019.  (Photo: teleSUR)

Mexico City, November 18 (RHC)-- The constitutionally-elected President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, told teleSUR over the weekend that a dictatorship has returned to the South American country, given the recent events that triggered intense repression exerted by the de-facto government chaired by Senator Jeanine Áñez.... More


La Paz, November 17 (RHC)-- The de facto government of Bolivia issued a decree over the weekend exempting Armed Forces and National Police from criminal responsibility when committing acts of repression against protesters who have taken to the streets to reject the coup d'etat.... More


Venezuela's Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza demanded U.S. Vice President Mike Pence assume the failure of the U.S. interference policy against Venezuela.  (Photo

Caracas, November 17 (RHC)-- The Venezuelan government has rejected a statement from U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, who called on the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) to carry out a coup d'etat in the country.... More


United Nations, November 17 (RHC)-- The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) condemned the “disproportionate use” of police-military force in the repression that took place over the weekend in the city of Cochabamba where nine coca growers died and dozens were injured.... More


Washington, November 17 (RHC)-- Newly-released government data shows the U.S. government has detained a record number of migrant children over the past year -- nearly 70,000 babies, children and teenagers held in U.S. government custody.  That’s a 42% increase over the last fiscal year. ... More


Luxembourg, November 17 (RHC)-- In Luxembourg, the European Investment Bank announced it will begin divesting from fossil fuels, ending its financing of most oil and coal projects after 2021.... More


UK homeless crisis worsening

London, November 17 (RHC)-- In the UK, the number of people sleeping on the streets has surged to record highs.  ... More


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