The 27th International Congress of Orthopedics and Traumatology began sessions Tuesday at the Plaza América Convention Center in Cuba's famous Varadero beach resort.... More
Bolivian President Evo Morales on Tuesday called the TV debate between U.S. presidential candidates "only a show" and said the November elections would not affect Bolivia-U.S. ties.... More
Panama has submitted a formal request with the U.S. Department of State for the extradition of former Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli to face Panamanian justice, the country’s foreign ministry said Tuesday.... More
Shimon Peres, Israel's former president and its eldest statesman, passed away in a hospital outside Tel Aviv Wednesday morning, two weeks after he suffered a stroke, a spokesperson for the hospital confirmed.... More
The Cuban Attorney General´s Office said the meeting here in Havana of Cuban and U.S. prosecutors signals both countries' interest in boosting bilateral exchanges, which by no means entails compromising Cuba's national sovereignty and independence.... More
Nicaragua's Vice President Moises Omar Halleslevens on Tuesday blasted a proposal in the U.S. Congress that would threaten Managua's access to funding from international lenders.... More
Cuban First Vice President Miguel Díaz-Canel held official talks Monday in Havana with Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Lesotho Dr. Pakalitha Bethuel Mosisili, who is here on a state visit that runs through Thursday, September 29th.... More
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) leader Timoleon Jimenez signed a historic peace deal Monday, ending the country's decades-long armed conflict.... More
More than 11,000 Argentine public sector workers walked off the job Tuesday to demand that President Mauricio Macri reverse his budget-cutting austerity measures, the State-Workers’ Association, or ATE, said. ... More
The Islamic State (IS) group on Tuesday claimed responsibility for two suicide bomb attacks at busy commercial areas in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad that killed a total of 15 people and wounded 59 others, the group said in an on-line statement.... More
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova has rebuked United Nations' U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power's description of Russian attacks in Syria as “barbarism”, noting that "nothing in modern history is more barbaric than what the US has done in Iraq and Libya.”... More
The European Union (EU) decided to suspend restrictive measures against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) on Tuesday, after the rebel group signed a peace agreement with the Colombian government.... More
Cuba and Russia have signed a new accord that provides for further use of nuclear energy with peaceful purposes.... More
Bolivia's cocaleros (coca leaf growers) will stage a nationwide movement to remove the constitutional hurdle that prevents President Evo Morales from standing for re-election in 2019, the group's leader said on Monday.... More
President Enrique Peña Nieto said Monday that Mexico will continue to investigate the case of the 43 students who went missing in the southern state of Guerrero two years ago.... More
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