Public sector employees have brought transportation to a halt in Belgium as looming strikes on planes and trains are threatening to bring more chaos to neighboring France.... More
Air France pilots have voted for a strike action in June, potentially affecting the prestigious European football games. ... More
An Australian study shows more than 45 million people are currently trapped in modern slavery across the world, up by 28 percent compared to similar estimates two years ago.... More
Stephen Hawking, probably the most prominent scientist alive, is struggling to understand why real estate mogul Donald Trump is popular among American voters in his 2016 presidential campaign.... More
Some 40,000 Verizon workers have returned to their jobs following an agreement with the company, seven weeks after staging one of the largest strikes in recent years in the United States.... More
Extremist Israeli politician Avigdor Lieberman has been officially sworn in as Israel's new minister of military affairs.... More
The social networking website Facebook has surpassed governments in terms of posing privacy challenges, says a former director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). ... More
Cuban First Vice-President Miguel Diaz-Canel has wrapped up a five-day official visit to Russia.... More
Deputy Prime Minister of Belgium, Didier Reynders, has begun an official visit to Cuba, aimed at strengthening bilateral ties.... More
Josefina Vidal, Director General for the United States at the Cuban Foreign Ministry, was decorated with the Award of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), in recognition of her personal contribution to the new scenario of relations between Cuba and the United States. ... More
Cuban Professionals Contribute their Expertise to Save Lives and Improve Health of Caribbean Peoples
More than 30,100 Cuban health professionals are currently offering their services to people in 18 out of the 25 member states of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS), whose 7th Summit will take place June 2nd through the 4th here in Havana.... More
Thousands of Puerto Ricans demanded the release of political prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera, who has been locked up in U.S. prisons for 35 years -- marching through the streets of San Juan on Sunday.... More
While the hype and protests around the high-profile release of the Panama Papers has begun to die down, Argentinean President Mauricio Macri has now admitted to having over $18 million offshore in tax havens, while the fortune he had previously made public doubled in 2015, local media reported.... More
New evidence is pointing to the involvement of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in the murder of a prominent Mexican journalist more than 30 years ago.... More
Brazil’s opposition political parties funded the main organizations that promoted the coup against President Dilma Rousseff, according to the site UOL.... More
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