San Francisco, Feb 17 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of California, officials with the Department of Water Resources report that the state appears to be headed into another drought... More


Washington, Feb 17 (RHC)-- The rise in global sea levels has accelerated since the 1990s amid rising temperatures, with a thaw of Greenland’s ice sheet pouring ever more water into the oceans.... More


Namibian Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila

Havana, Feb 16 (RHC)-- Cuban President Raul Castro received in Havana on Thursday Namibian Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila, who is on an official visit to Cuba.... More


Havana, Feb 16 (RHC)-- Cuban Vice President Mercedes López Acea was received Thursday by the President of Seychelles Danny Faure, the Cuban Foreign Ministry said on its Twitter account, describing the meeting as cordial and friendly.... More


Havana, Feb 16 (RHC)-- Cuba and Ecuador have signed an agreement in the field of higher education that provides for strengthened academic cooperation. ... More


Havana, Feb 16 (RHC)-- The General Customs of the Republic of Cuba (AGRC) has granted the certificate of Authorized Economic Operator to the Habanos Corporation S.A., as an exporting entity.... More


Havana, Feb 16 (RHC)-- On the sidelines of the XI Annual Congress on Higher Education in Havana, Pierre Josué Agénor Cadet, Minister of National Education of Haiti, and José Ramón Saborido Loidi, Cuban Minister of Higher Education, have pledged to strengthen relations between the two countries in the field of higher education. ... More


Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro gestures as he talks to the media during a news conference in Caracas, Venezuela February 15, 2018.  Photo: Reuters

Caracas, Feb 16 (RHC)-- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said that his country will seek other buyers for its oil if the United States approves an oil embargo on Venezuela.... More


A Palestinian boy walks back from the Gaza Strip's sole electricity plant on February 15, 2018.  Photo by AFP

Gaza City, Feb 16 (RHC)-- The sole electricity plant in the Gaza Strip has stopped working because of a lack of fuel as concerns grow over worsening humanitarian conditions in the besieged Palestinian enclave. ... More


Racist violence by white supremacist groups on the rise.  Photo: AFP

Atlanta, Feb 16 (RHC)-- White supremacists in the self-styled “alt-right” movement are responsible for racist violence that’s left more than 100 people dead or wounded. That’s according to the Southern Poverty Law Center in a new investigation titled “The Alt-Right Is Killing People.” ... More


DuPont has long been responsible for toxic chemical spills that endanger the environment.  Photo: AP

Colombus, Feb 16 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Ohio, the attorney general has filed suit against chemical giant DuPont... More


U.S. airstrikes hit Yemeni cities.  Photo: AFP

Amman, Feb 16 (RHC)-- The UN children's agency (UNICEF) says at least 83 children were killed in Middle East war zones in January. Geert Cappelaere, UNICEF's regional director for the Middle East and North Africa, announced the figure in a statement in the Jordanian capital Amman. ... More


 ICE agents arrest an undocumented immigrant.  Photo: AP

Washington, Feb 16 (RHC)-- U.S. President Trump’s anti-immigrant policies led to a 30 percent jump in the number of arrests carried out by ICE last year, according to a new review of ICE data by the Pew Research Center. ... More


Children are deported from U.S. to violence-ridden countries.   Photo: Democracy Now

Washington, Feb 16 (RHC)-- A U.S. appeals court has ruled that children who migrate to the United States with their parents without permission do not have the right to a government-appointed lawyer in U.S. immigration courts. ... More


Havana, Feb 15 (RHC) – Cuba rejected a decision to deny Venezuela participation in the Summit of the Americas to be held next April in Peru, the Cuban foreign ministry said in a statement.... More


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