Buenos Aires, October 29 (RHC)-- Argentina’s national currency closed stronger and its black market counterpart reversed course after hitting a record low in a day of tempered market reaction on the heels of victory by presidential candidate Alberto Fernandez in Sunday’s election.... More
Paris, October 29 (RHC)-- In France, an 84-year-old man attempting to set fire to a mosque in the southern city of Bayonne opened fire on worshipers Monday, injuring two people before fleeing the scene. He was later arrested. ... More
Phoenix, October 29 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Arizona, a 33-year-old Mexican woman has died while in the custody of U.S. Border Patrol. She’s the second person to die in Border Patrol custody within a week in the state of Arizona. ... More
Washington, October 29 (RHC)-- In the U.S., on Capitol Hill, Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg is scheduled to appear before a pair of congressional committees for the first time since two deadly crashes of 737 MAX airliners, which killed a combined 346 people. ... More
Riyadh, October 29 (RHC)-- In Saudi Arabia, top Trump administration officials are joining financial industry executives at a Saudi investment forum, ignoring international calls for a boycott over the kingdom’s gross human rights violations, its disastrous war in Yemen and the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi operatives one year ago. ... More
Havana, October 29 (RHC)—Cuban diplomats, intellectuals and representatives of the Academia said Tuesday that no matter how hard the Trump Administration tries to punish Cuba further, it will not succeed since the island will never concede or betray its solidarity with other countries.... More
London, October 29 (RHC)-- British rock legend and Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters says that by going after WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange, governments want to scare off journalists and whistleblowers from exposing the truth.... More
Ramallah, October 29 (RHC)-- At least 140 Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem have been demolished so far this year by the Israeli authorities according to the rights organization B’Tselem who said Thursday that the figure was the highest since it began keeping records in 2004.... More
New York, October 29 (RHC)-- According to a new study in the United States, 95% of baby foods in the U.S. contain either lead, arsenic, mercury or cadmium. The national study by Healthy Babies Bright Futures tested 61 different baby food brands purchased across 14 different metropolitan areas — from San Diego, California, to Albany, New York. ... More
Havana, October 29 (RHC) -- Dedicated to the 500 years of Havana and as a tribute to Alicia Alonso, the Cuban National Ballet Company will offer a season that will show the ensemble’s versatility beginning this weekend... More
Moscow, October 29, (RHC)—The Presidents of Cuba, Miguel Diaz-Canel, and of Russia, Vladimir Putin, met this Tuesday at the Kremlin, as part of the Cuban leader's working visit to the Eurasian country.... More
The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched a new global plan to track research on human genome editing, hoping to develop global standards for governance and oversight of this cutting edge technology.... More
Havana, October 28 (RHC) The 33rd edition of the International Choir Festival, Electo Silva in Memoriam, opened Monday night with an artistic gala by Orfeón Santiago Choir in the Dolores Concert Hall Sala, in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba.... More
Washington, October 29 (RHC)-- U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper says that American troops have been deployed to "protect" oil fields in Syria. The mission, on its surface, aims to keep these oil fields in the hands of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, Washington’s former allies in the fight against the Islamic State.... More
Santiago de Chile, October 29 (RHC)-- The representative from Frente Amplio, Pamela Jiles, talked to The Clinic newspaper about the social protests that have shaken Chile and that have revealed the vulnerability of a political and economic system that the vast majority of citizens no longer tolerates.... More
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