Farmers from Ciego de Avila in central Cuba will plant 2,500 hectares of pineapples through the end of 2018, with a view to both domestic consumption and export.... More


Multinational oil company Puma Energy may be responsible for a major oil spill in the tourist destination Puerto Sandino, on Nicaragua's Pacific coast... More


A strong earthquake hit central Italy early Wednesday, killing scores and leaving large areas destroyed or damaged.... More


Argentinean President Maurico Macri

The investigation over Argentinean President Maurico Macri's offshore firm, as revealed in the Panama Papers, has put prosecutors on the trail of three Brazilian firms directly linked to his company, Fleg Trading.... More


Pro-Palestine organizers and activists in Ecuador's capital, Quito, converged on the nation's second-largest bank, Banco del Pacifico, calling on it to end its contract with the British-based security company G4S.... More


U.S. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden met with Costa Rica's President Luis Guillermo Solis in Washington... More


Until as recently as last year, Peru’s national police force harbored a “death squad” that is responsible for the extrajudicial killings of at least 20 people over a four-year period... More


Over 300 people have died in eastern and central India as severe flooding is destroying villages, crops, and roads.... More


In the United States, former Fox News host Andrea Tantaros has filed a lawsuit alleging top Fox News executives punished her after she reported being sexually harassed by former Fox News Chair Roger Ailes.... More


President Raul Castro met Monday in Havana with visiting Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. ... More


Cuba has been elected to occupy a seat in the council of the International Civil Aviation Organization.... More


President Raul Castro congratulated members of the National Association of Cuban Writers and Artists, the UNEAC, on occasion of the 55th anniversary of the organization on Monday.... More


A project by a British non-governmental organization to send a grand piano to Cuba's music conservatory Amadeo Roldan in Havana, clashed with the United States' nearly 60-year blockade against Cuba.... More


Relatives of the dozens of victims killed in a massacre at the hands of Mexican federal police in the state of Michoacan last year are renewing their appeals for justice after the release of a scathing report that concluded that 22 of the murders were tantamount to “arbitrary executions.” ... More


Israeli jets have carried out an airstrike in Syria’s Golan Heights, claiming that the attack was in retaliation for stray fire from Syrian fighting factions that landed inside Israel.... More


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