Trump cuts aid to Palestinian refugees.  Photo: AP

Ramallah, June 29 (RHC)-- Financial troubles facing the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) threatens to “adversely affect the lives of some five million Palestinian refugees ... More


Smoke rises above the Syrian southwestern city of Dara’a on June 25, 2018.  Photo: AFP

United Nations, June 29 (RHC)-- The UN says over 45,000 people have been displaced following the ongoing conflicts in Syria’s southwestern province of Dara’a, warning that the number could double if clashes continue. ... More


Esteban Lazo Hernandez, speaker of the Cuban Parliament.

Havana, June 29 (RHC)-- The National Assembly of People´s Power, the Cuban Parliament, has been convened to hold the first ordinary session of its 9th legislature on Saturday, July 21st.... More


Carlos Fernández de Cossio

Havana, June 29 (RHC)--The Director General of U.S. Affairs at the Cuban Foreign Ministry, Carlos Fernandez de Cossío, denounced that Washington maintains the political manipulation of the supposed 'acoustic incidents' with its diplomats in Havana.... More


Ambassador in Havana of the Russian Federation, his excellency Mijaíl Kaminin

Havana, June 28 (RHC)-- Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez presented the ambassador in Havana of the Russian Federation... More


Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez met Wednesday in Havana with Iranian First Deputy Foreign Minister Morteza Sarmadi. Photo: PL

Havana, June 28 (RHC)-- Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez met Wednesday in Havana with Iranian First Deputy Foreign Minister Morteza Sarmadi, diplomatic sources have reported.... More


Havana, June 28 (RHC)-- The organizing committee of the 24th annual meeting of the Sao Paulo forum held an on-line debate Thursday morning on the Facebook account of the Cuban newspaper Granma. ... More


Brazil's un-elected president Michel Temer greets U.S. VP Mike Pence.   Photo: Reuters

Caracas, June 28 (RHC)-- As U.S. Vice President Mike Pence was visiting Brazil, where he called for more “pressure” against Venezuela, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza highlighted the “irony” of an anti-Latino-immigrant government interfering in Latin American affairs. ... More


In this file picture, a US-backed Takfiri militant with a heavy automatic machinegun next to an American soldier as they take their positions at the al-Tanf bor

Washington, June 28 (RHC)-- A military expert at a diplomatic school run by the Russian Foreign Ministry says the Pentagon is training dozens of Takfiri terrorists at 19 military camps inside war-ravaged Syria. ... More


 Trump administration lost track of thousands of children.  Photo: AP

Washington, June 28 (RHC)-- The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has lost track of some 6,000 unaccompanied immigrant children last year, a huge increase from the official figures Washington released earlier this year. ... More


U.S. Supreme Court just-us Anthony Kennedy.  Photo: AP

Washington, June 28 (RHC)-- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has announced that he is retiring, giving President Donald Trump the chance to pick yet another justice for the court and shift its ideological balance even farther to the right for years to come. ... More


Iranian President Hassan Rouhani attends a meeting with senior cabinet members in Tehran on June 27, 2018.   Photo: president.ir

Tehran, June 28 (RHC)-- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says the Islamic Republic will never yield to U.S. pressure and demands following Washington's withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal.... More


Displaced Yemenis from Hudaydah sit in their shelter at a makeshift camp for displaced people in the northern district of Yemen's Hajjah province on June 19, 20

Paris, June 28 (RHC)-- The French government has been urged to press its allies, including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), to "minimize harm" to civilians... More


Protesters demonstrate against family separations.  Photo: AP

Washington, June 28 (RHC)-- A federal judge has ruled that U.S. immigration agents could no longer separate immigrant parents and children caught crossing the border from Mexico illegally and must reunite those families that had been split up in custody.  ... More


Bogota, June 28 (RHC)-- Colombia’s Democratic Center, the party headed by former President Alvaro Uribe, has rejected a request by the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia urging the country to “remove the obstacles” for the fulfillment of the peace accords.... More


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