Dallas, August 30 (RHC) -- In Texas, the family of Black teenager Jordan Edwards, killed at the hands of white police officer Roy Oliver, voiced dissatisfaction with the cop's conviction of just 15 years.... More
Havana, August 30 (RHC)-- Cuba's Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Rogelio Sierra will lead the country's delegation to the 49th Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), set for September 3rd through the 6th in the Republic of Nauru. ... More
Havana, Aug 30 (RCH) – Cuban Marta Acosta has won the 2018 Julio Cortázar Iberoamerican Short Story Contest. The winning text by the young writer was El Olor de los cerezos, The Scent of Cherry Trees.... More
Havana, August 30 (RHC)-- The 1st Round of Cuba-Belize Migratory Talks concluded Wednesday in Havana after two days of negotiations headed by Ambassador Ernesto Soberón Guzmán, Director of Consular Affairs and Cuban Residents Abroad of the Cuban Foreign Ministry and the Deputy Foreign Minister of Belize Patrick Andrews. ... More
Caracas, Aug 30 (RHC) Venezuela’s Minister of Communication and Information, Jorge Rodríguez, has rejected a campaign being waged against his country related to migration flows to neighboring countries.... More
San Juan, August 29 (RHC)-- Puerto Rico has officially raised the death toll from Hurricane Maria last year from 64 to nearly 3,000 following the release of a study ordered by the governor of the island. This officially makes Maria one of the deadliest storms in U.S. history. Puerto Rican Governor Ricardo Rosselló acknowledged the higher death count on Tuesday. U.S. President Donald Trump has so far not responded to the new official death toll, which is 46 times higher than the initial count. ... More
Tel Aviv, August 29 (RHC)-- A court in Israel has legalized a settlement illegally built on a Palestinian-owned land in the central West Bank city of Ramallah amid international outcry against the Tel Aviv regime’s land expropriation and settlement expansion policies in the occupied Palestinian territories. Judge Arnon Darel at the Jerusalem District Court ruled that settlers at the Mitzpe Kramim settlement had acted in “good faith” and had rights to the property.... More
Managua, August 29 (RHC)-- Nicaraguan Presidential Adviser for Educational Affairs, Salvador Vanegas, announced that the government will be investing $26 million dollars to develop the third phase of the mobile digital classrooms educational program. ... More
Havana, August 29 (RHC)-- The Panamanian COPA Airlines has opened a business office in the central Cuban city of Santa Clara, located in the province of Villa Clara, which has become a place of growing tourist interest.... More
Caracas, August 29 (RHC)-- Residents in the province of Amazonas are facing unprecedented floods resulting from heavy rains and the swelling of the Orinoco River.... More
Matanzas, August 29 (RHC)-- Carilda Oliver, National Literature Award recipient and outstanding Cuban poet, passed away Wednesday morning at 96 years of age at her home in Matanzas province, from which she wrote most of her extensive work.... More
Havana, August 29 (RHC) -- Renowned Cuban poetess, Carilda Oliver, passed away early this morning at her home in the city of Matanzas at the age of 96... More
Santiago de Chile, August 28 (RHC)-- Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Monday that dialogue without interventionism is the best way to find a solution to the socioeconomic issues Venezuela has faced over the last few years.... More
Havana, August 28 (RHC)-- Cuba now holds the world record for the largest Cuba Libre cocktail ever made, after this year’s 12th Pan American Cocktail Rally of the International Bartenders' Association being held in Havana this week.... More
Caracas, August 28 (RHC) -- The Venezuelan government facilitated the return of 89 nationals who were in Peru and had requested to go back to their home country. ... More
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