The preliminary phase of the 55th Cuban National Baseball Series ended without revealing many details regarding the 2nd ranked group as the Table was more complicated than the day before; however, the removal of Sancti Spiritus (22-23), Villa Clara (22-23), Cienfuegos (19-23), Santiago de Cuba (15-30), Artemisa (12-30), Mayabeque (11-33) and Camaguey (11-34) teams was officially announced.... More
London, October 28 (RHC)-- Amnesty International has censured the Tel Aviv regime over killing Palestinians with intentional lethal force and without justification in the occupied West Bank. ... More
Washington, October 28 (RHC)-- U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter says the United States will launch "direct action on the ground" against the self-proclaimed Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. ... More
United Nations, October 28 (RHC)-- The ongoing conflict in Syria has left at least 13.5 million people in need of humanitarian aid, according to the United Nations. The figure, which includes some six million children, shows an increase of 1.2 million people in the last 10 months, said UN Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Stephen O'Brien while addressing the Security Council on Tuesday. ... More
Moscow, October 28 (RHC)-- The U.S.-led coalition has no idea of whom it is backing in Syria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says. Referring to a last week meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir and Turkish Foreign Minister Feridun Sinirlioglu, Lavrov reiterated that the US-led coalition does not quite understand the situation and the warring parties in Syria. ... More
United Nations, October 28 (RHC)-- The United Nations has condemned Saudi Arabia’s recent airstrike on a hospital run by the medical aid group, Doctors Without Borders, also known as MSF, in Yemen, calling for an immediate probe into the incident. ... More
United Nations, October 28 (RHC)-- The Syrian UN ambassador has censured the United States for its huge expenditure on training anti-Syria militants, saying Washington could have spent $500 million to tackle refugee and humanitarian crises instead of arming the terrorists fighting against the Damascus government. ... More
United Nations, October 28 (RHC)-- The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) has reiterated the need for structural reforms in the United Nations in conformity with the UN Charter. ... More
Islamabad, October 28 (RHC)-- The death toll from a powerful 7.7-Richter earthquake that hit several regions in Pakistan and Afghanistan has risen to 339. ... More
Beijing, October 28 (RHC)-- China has summoned the United States ambassador to protest against a U.S. ship patrol near a group of man-made islands in the South China Sea.... More
Washington, October 28 (RHC)-- A decision by the United States to sail a warship past one of China’s artificial islands in the South China Sea is an escalation that may lead to a “dangerous confrontation,” a political commentator in Washington says. ... More
Caracas, October 28 (PL-RHC)-- The Venezuelan government has established a system to determine and indicate the price of goods and services, a measure to tackle the right-wing's economic war.... More
Mexico City, October 28 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Over 8,000 indigenous people are serving sentences in Mexico's state and federal prisons because of institutionalized racism, indigenous rights advocates said on Tuesday. ... More
La Paz, October 28 (PL-RHC)-- Prosecutors from several Ibero-American countries are in Bolivia to participate in the 23rd Ordinary General Assembly of the Ibero-American Association of Public Prosecutors, which will have cybercrime as its central topic for discussion.... More
Caracas, October 28 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Venezuela will celebrate Wednesday a decade of having been declared free of illiteracy by UNESCO.... More
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