Barcelona, October 18 (RHC)-- Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators waving pro-independence flags and chanting "freedom for political prisoners" joined marches across Catalonia on Friday, the fifth day of protests against the jailing of nine separatist leaders over a failed bid to break away from Spain in 2017.... More
Gaza City, October 18 (RHC)-- Nearly 70 Palestinians were wounded as Israeli forces attacked people participating in fresh weekly rallies near the fence separating the besieged Gaza Strip from the occupied territories on Friday.... More
Washington, October 18 (RHC)—Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said that new measures announced on Friday by the US Commerce Department against the island are an expression of impotence, moral degradation, and imperial contempt.... More
PAHO/WHO joins the October Breast Cancer Awareness month campaign with the following message: Breast cancer can be detected early and treated effectively... More
The Cuba Tourism Board has named Lessner Gomez the new Director of the Cuba Tourist Board in Toronto. With over 25 years of experience in the travel industry, Lessner is looking forward to working closely with all Cuba’s travel partners and the continued strengthening of relationships with Canadian Tour operators, travel advisors, hotel partners and Travel Media to help achieve the mutual goal of increasing the number of Canadian visitors to Cuba.... More
By using synthetic biology, researchers are developing a more efficient and sustainable method to produce the next generation of bio-based jet fuels, which could be partly made from seawater, according to a study released on Thursday by The University of Manchester.... More
As part of the All-Star Game celebration, the province of Camaguey is hosting the gala in which the six teams qualified to the second stage of the Cuban 59th National Baseball Series will pick up their five reinforcements.... More
Caracas, October 18 (RHC)-- Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday said that in the coming days he will present new evidence about the destabilization plans that the Venezuelan opposition intends to execute in November and warned that organizers of violent forms of protest (“guarimbas”) will be brought to justice.... More
European Union urges Ecuadorean government to continue negotiations on new degree for fuel subsidies
Quito, October 18 (RHC)-- The European Union has urged Ecuador to continue negotiating to achieve a "reconciliation" agreement after protests that ended Sunday left at least eight dead and hundreds injured after state security forces cracked down on anti-austerity protesters.... More
Ramallah, October 18 (RHC)-- Over 6000 Palestinian prisoners are languishing in Israeli jails. Hundreds of these inmates are held without any charge or trial under what’s known as administrative detention deemed illegal based on international law.... More
New York, October 18 (RHC)-- On the eighth day of his trial held in New York City, it was revealed that Tony Hernandez, brother of Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez (JOH), sold drugs, ammunition and high-caliber rifles to a drug dealer named Fernando Chang Monroy, to later be sold to the Knights Templar Cartel, a Mexican criminal group, and to the Sinaloa Cartel, a drug trafficking, money laundering organization.... More
Washington, October 18 (RHC)-- The Donald Trump administration has proposed opening up millions of acres of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest to logging -- a move environmental activists say threatens the largest intact temperate rainforest in North America. ... More
Ramallah, October 18 (RHC)-- More than 750 Israeli settlers have violated the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied Old City of East Jerusalem al-Quds under the strict protection of regime forces as part of recent mass break-ins into the Islamic holy site.... More
Washington, October 18 (RHC)-- The U.S. has ordered Chinese diplomats to inform the State Department before holding any meetings with federal and local American officials, describing the restrictions as a “reciprocal” move.... More
Baltimore, October 18 (RHC)-- In the United States, Maryland Democratic Congressmember Elijah Cummings has died at the age of 68. The longtime African-American politician had for decades championed progressive causes and the rights of African Americans and the poor. He was also a fierce critic of President Trump, who has called Cummings’s majority-Black district a “rodent-infested mess.” ... More
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