Vienna, June 28 (RHC)-- Venezuela’s Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza spoke Thursday at an international forum in Vienna, during which he condemned the United States for wanting to colonize the Bolivarian country, and for trying to starve the country out using economic war to oust President Nicolas Maduro and install an allied government.... More
Medellin, June 28 (RHC)-- The Colombian Coordination of Social Organizations (COS) took a stand during the 49th Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS), voicing their outrage over Colombia’s disregard for contracts, pacts, and promises made to its Indigenous, rural, and endangered citizens, while publicly only intervening on Venezuela and other Latin American nations.... More
Mexico City, June 28 (RHC)-- Mexico's Federal Police Wednesday detained 101 migrants from El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua in two surveillance operations carried out at Veracruz, a southern Mexican state which is about 450 miles from the border with Guatemala.... More
Rome, June 28 (RHC)-- The Sea-Watch 3 ship carrying 42 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean reports it was headed for the island of Lampedusa despite the threat of hefty fines from Italy's far-right interior minister.... More
Baghdad, June 28 (RHC)-- The U.S.-led military coalition purportedly fighting the Daesh terrorist group has admitted killing over 1,300 civilians since it started its military campaign in Iraq and Syria nearly five years ago. ... More
Lima, June 28 (RHC)-- The Brazilian construction company Odebrecht has confessed to paying former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo over $32 million in personal bribes in exchange for state-funded infrastructure contracts. The neo-liberal ex-president governed from 2001 until 2006 and is currently in the United States after fleeing charges in Peru.... More
Brasilia, June 28 (RHC)-- Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has announced that he was backing down from his weapons decree that sought to make firearms more readily available to the public. However, at the same time, he proposed three other pieces of legislation regarding gun access in Brazil, hoping they will be approved by the Congress.... More
Havana, June 28 (RHC)-- The mechanism to review the implementation of the United Nations Convention against Corruption is concluding a visit to Cuba Friday after three days of exchanges with government institutions.... More
Havana, June 28 (RHC)-- Sri Lanka´s Foreign Minister, Vasantha Senanayake, who is on an official visit in Cuba, was received on Thursday by the president of the International Relations Commission of the National Assembly of Popular Power, Yolanda Ferrer.... More
Pinar del Rio, June 28 (RHC)-- President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez is heading a governmental visit to Pinar del Rio, the island's westernmost province.... More
Havana, June 27 (RHC)—The Cuban Council of Ministers has approved a new package of measures seeking to improve the island´s economy, and to benefit a sector of state workers with low salaries.... More
Havana, June 27 (RHC)-- The Official Gazette of the Cuban Republic has published a decree-law and a Council of Minister’s accord to introduce changes on the island’s audiovisual and film creation policy... More
Washington, June 27 (RHC)-- U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to ´obliterate´ parts of Iran if it attacked ´anything American´. The message, delivered by tweet, followed Iranian President Hassan Rouhani saying the White House was ´mentally handicapped´, after news of new U.S. sanctions.... More
Tehran, June 27 (RHC)-- The Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has dismissed Washington’s claim about seeking talks with Tehran as a “deception,” saying such an offer is merely aimed at stripping the Iranian nation of its “elements of power.”... More
Lima, June 27 (RHC)-- Former right-wing Peruvian President and dictator Alberto Fujimori has returned to prison after being hospitalized over the weekend. The 80-year-old former head of state was transported from the National Penitentiary Institute (INPE) to a private clinic in Lima due to high blood pressure and abdominal pain, local media reported.... More
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