Montevideo, September 23 (RHC)-- Uruguay will withdraw from the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (TIAR) if its members approve military intervention against Venezuela, Foreign Affairs Minister Rodolfo Nin Novoa told La Republica Monday.... More
Orlando, September 23 (RHC)-- In the U.S., a Florida police officer has been suspended and is under investigation after he hand-cuffed and arrested a 6-year-old and an 8-year-old student last week. Dennis Turner, who was serving as a school resource officer at an Orlando charter school, reportedly arrested the African-American 6-year-old girl for kicking a staff member during a tantrum. She was then charged with battery. ... More
El Paso, September 23 (RHC)-- A Honduran mother and her 21-month-old toddler died last week while trying to cross the Rio Grande into the United States to apply for asylum. ... More
Washington, September 23 (RHC)-- A new report says that the Donald Trump administration ignored an internal study from one of its own agencies showing that climate change is driving Central American, and in particular Guatemalan, migration to the United States. ... More
Granma newspaper reports that Consuelo Vidal, United Nations System resident coordinator, said the Caribbean state has fully demonstrated its effectiveness in responding to contingencies of a natural origin, serving as a reference for the entire Caribbean region.... More
Havana, September 23 (RHC)-- More than 2,200 films, 300 scripts and 100 posters have registered to compete in the 41st International Festival of New Latin American Cinema, scheduled for December 5-15 in Cuba.... More
Washington, September 23 (RHC)-- The U.S. State Department has refused an entry visa to the Iranian delegation accompanying President Hassán Rouhaní to attend the UN General Assembly in New York.... More
Miami, September 23 (RHC)-- The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami says that Tropical Storm Karen, which formed on Sunday, was expected to pass near or over Puerto Rico and the U.S. and British Virgin Islands on Tuesday. ... More
Havana, September 23 (RHC)-- Cuba maintains the elimination HIV and syphilis mother-to-child transmission as a health problem, a certification recently ratified by the World Health Organization (WHO), local media reported.... More
Moscow, September 23 (RHC)--The President of the Cuban Chamber of Commerce, Orlando Hernandez Guillen, visited in the Russian capital the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) and met with the Minister for Fiscal and Economic Policy of that organization, Timur Zhaxylykov.... More
Santa Clara, September 23 (RHC)-- Cuba's Minister of Domestic Trade, Betsy Díaz, said in the central city of Santa Clara that there are enough food supplies on the island to guarantee the basic family basket.... More
Washington, September 23 (RHC)-- The Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO)-Pastors for Peace rejected the expulsion by Washington of two Cuban diplomats accredited to the United Nations.... More
Havana, September 23 (RHC)--Cuban Communist Party leader Raúl Castro Ruz, and president Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez welcomed Bolivian president Evo Morales Ayma, who made a stopover in Havana on his way to New York. ... More
Caracas, September 23 (RHC)-- Venezuelan officials have reported that former Colombian mayor Henry Valero, who helped opposition lawmaker Juan Guaido cross the Venezuelan-Colombian border on February 22nd, has been sentenced to five years in prison for corruption in Colombia. ... More
Rio de Janeiro, September 23 (RHC)-- Hundreds of residents in one of Rio de Janeiro's poorest neighborhoods marched this weekend to demand an end to violence in the Brazilian city after an eight-year-old girl was killed by a stray bullet during a police operation.... More
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