UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund, warns that 20,000 children are trapped in the fierce battle between Iraqi forces and the Islamic State in Fallujah, where food, water and medicine is running out.... More
Israel has freed Meir Ettinger, an Israeli settler who was behind the burning to death of a Palestinian family in the occupied West Bank.... More
Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder says that NSA whistleblower performed a "public service" in provoking a national debate about secret domestic surveillance programs, but he should still return to the U.S. to stand trial.... More
Leonard Peltier, the Native American activist who has spent four decades in prison, says he is paying the price for having fought for the values of indigenous lives.... More
President Raúl Castro has received Didier Reynders, Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, who is on an official visit to Cuba.... More
Josefina Vidal, Director General for the United States Department at the Cuban Foreign Ministry has said the governments of Cuba and the United States are negotiating new cooperation agreements that would be signed in the coming months.... More
François Rancy, Director of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), has acknowledged Cuba's prestige in terms of radio communications.... More
Cuban Minister of Science, Technology and the Environment Elba Rosa Perez is in Vietnam for a three-day official visit.... More
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) has called for mobilizations and rallies across the country Wednesday and again on Saturday in protest against the OAS "intervention."... More
In a blow to Brazil's interim government, another minister has stepped down after the leak of a new audio tape that reveals him trying to block a corruption investigation at the state oil company. ... More
Some 27 million Mexicans have been called to vote in the June 5th elections in 14 states to elect more than 1,300 public officials, including 12 governors and 965 mayors. ... More
An investigation published in Counterpunch has revealed that the private Honduran energy company implicated in the murder of Indigenous activist Berta Caceres signed a funding deal with a USAID partner just months before her assassination.... More
Former Peruvian presidential candidate Veronika Mendoza called for her supporters to vote for Keiko Fujimori's opponent in the second round of presidential elections.... More
Mohamed Abdelaziz, the secretary general of the Polisario Front, a movement fighting for independence of a region of Western Sahara, has died.... More
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