Aftermath of a settler attack on the Palestinian Beit Hanina neighborhood in East Jerusalem.  Photo: Twitter

Jerusalem, December 21 (RHC)-- Scores of extremist Jewish settlers have vandalized private Palestinian vehicles in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem, slashing the tires of more than two dozen parked cars and spraying racist graffiti on a wall. ... More


Havana, December 21 (RHC)—Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel reiterated Thursday that the island’s cooperation in the field of health will never be profit-oriented, and will always be guided by the values ​​of humanism, solidarity and internationalism.... More


Cuba ends 2018 with lowest maternal-infant mortality rates ever

Havana, December 20 (RHC)-- Cuba is set to end the year with the lowest maternal-infant mortality rate in its history. ... More


San Salvador, December 20 (RHC)-- The Seventh Cuba-El Salvador Policy Meeting is currently underway in the Salvadoran capital, San Salvador.   ... More


Havana, December 20 (RHC)-- Speaking at the Havana International Convention Center Cuban Minister of Culture Alpidio Alonso, presented next year's plan for the sector; with efforts geared toward the spiritual enrichment of the population. ... More


Havana, December 20 (RHC)-- The Spanish company Newrest Catering Mariel, S.A., specializing in food and beverage production and preparation for their supply to companies, restaurants and other facilities, was established as a new user in the Mariel Special Development Zone... More


Italian company to build Iberostar Hotel in Trinidad

Havana, December 20 (RHC)-- In the presence of the Minister of Construction of Cuba, René Mesa Villafaña, the Italian group T.O.MA. signed a contract worth 80 million dollars for the construction of a new IBEROSTAR Hotel in Trinidad.... More


Chilean police raid trade union office after month-long strike.  Photo: teleSUR

Valparaiso, December 20 (RHC)-- After a month of strikes and protests by workers in Chile's main coastal port city of Valparaiso, street protests turned violent as the country’s anti-riot police, "Carabineros," cracked down on demonstrators and raided a port union building throwing tear gas and entering the offices by force.... More


 UN WFP short of funds to aid Gaza and West Bank.  Photo: AP

United Nations, December 20 (RHC)-- The United Nations' World Food Program (WFP) says it would cut food aid to around 190,000 impoverished Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank -- half of all its recipients there -- due to funding shortages.... More


 Brazilian president-elect meets with cabinet.   Photo: Press TV

Brasilia, December 20 (RHC)-- Brazil’s President-elect Jair Bolsonaro held his first cabinet meeting Wednesday.   ... More


 Honduran woman tear-gassed by U.S. forces applies for asylum.   Photo: Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters

San Diego, December 20 (RHC)-- A Honduran mother photographed last month fleeing tear gas fired by U.S. border guards near the port of entry between Tijuana, Mexico, and San Diego, California, has applied for asylum in the United States.  ... More


U.S. troops in Syria called home.  Photo: AP

Washington, December 20 (RHC)-- U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered the withdrawal of all 2,000 U.S. troops in Syria, in a move that surprised many in Washington and around the world.... More


Yemeni mother allowed to enter U.S. to see dying son.  Photo: AFP

San Francisco, December 20 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of California, the Yemeni mother of a dying 2-year-old child was granted a State Department waiver from President Donald Trump’s travel ban and will see her son one last time before her boy is expected to die. ... More


The Trump family punished for misuse of charitable organization.  Photo: Democracy Now

Washington, December 20 (RHC)-- U.S. President Donald Trump’s charitable foundation will be dissolved under court supervision, the result of an agreement reached with New York state’s attorney general, who says the Trump family used the charity as a virtual piggy bank for self-dealing. ... More


 Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying.  Photo: AFP

Beijing, December 20 (RHC)-- China has opposed the "weaponization" of space by the United States, a day after President Donald Trump ordered the creation of a new command center for controlling military space operations.... More


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