United Nations, August 6 (RHC)-- The United Nations agency assisting Palestinian refugees -- known as UNRWA -- has announced that it’s laying off 250 workers, after the Trump administration slashed $300 million in funding. ... More
El Paso, August 6 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Texas, immigrant rights groups say more than 500 fathers and sons who were separated at the U.S.-Mexico border, then reunited inside a for-profit immigration jail, have launched a strike and are refusing orders from ICE and guards from the GEO Group corporation. ... More
Houston, August 6 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Texas, the American Immigration Lawyers Association says a migrant toddler who was separated from her family as part of President Trump’s “zero tolerance” border policy died shortly after being released from the Dilley Family Detention Center. ... More
Washington, August 6 (RHC)-- The New York Times reports that the Donald Trump administration is considering a plan to sharply reduce the number of refugees allowed to settle in the United States. ... More
Washington, August 6 (RHC)-- In the United States, a recent study finds global warming is accelerating the melting of Antarctica’s ice sheet, adding about 200 billion tons of water to the planet’s oceans each year and threatening to inundate coastal communities around the globe. ... More
Havana, August 4 (RHC) – Cuban revolutionary leader Raul Castro and President Miguel Díaz-Canel strongly condemned the attack perpetrated this Saturday in Caracas against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.... More
Caracas, August 4 (RHC) -- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro survived an attack on his life during a military parade Saturday evening celebrating the 81st anniversary of the Bolivarian National Guard in the capital, Caracas.... More
Havana, Aug 4 (RHC) – Cuban nationals living abroad will be allowed to participate in the debates surrounding the new constitution project, the Cuban Foreign Ministry announced on Friday. ... More
Havana, August 4 (RHC)—Cuba´s president Miguel Díaz-Canel urged citizens on Friday to prepare very well for the popular consultation on the draft Constitution that will be held from August 13th through November 15.... More
Barranquilla, August 4 (RHC)—The 23rd Central American and Caribbean Games are history and the Cuban delegation concluded its performance achieving the second place with 102 titles, behind Mexico who scored 132. The third position went to the host country, Colombia, with 79.... More
Brasilia, August 4 (RHC)-- Brazil's former president Lula da Silva, a current political prisoner, is expected to secure his Workers Party's nomination this Saturday and continue to overshadow more likely candidates in the country's most unpredictable presidential election for decades.... More
Montevideo, August 4 (RHC)-- Uruguay's former President Jose Mujica has announced he will retire from the Senate on August 14, but has no plans to abandon political life – and may yet run for the presidency again in 2019.... More
Havana, Aug 3 (RHC) – Millions of Cubans will be discussing beginning August 13 and until November 15 a draft of national constitution, in which all citizens are being urged to participate.... More
Vatican, Aug 3 (RHC) – Pope Francis has sent a message of support from the Vatican to Brazil's embattled former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. ... More
Caracas, Aug 3 (RHC) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro met in Caracas with campesinos that had conducted a 21-day march to the government palace in Miraflores seeking to make their voices heard and asserting their rights.... More
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