Port-au-Prince, September 12 (RHC)-- Cuban doctors in Haiti took part in a ceremony at the Admiral Killick Coast Guard station for the opening of a humanitarian mission by the U.S. Navy Hospital-ship USNS Comfort on September 11, 2015, in Port-au-Prince, according to AFP news agency.... More
Havana, September 12 (PL-RHC)-- The Government of Cuba agreed, exceptionally and in recognition of her great contributions to Cuban and universal culture, to name the Grand Theater of Havana, “Alicia Alonso,” due to her outstanding work for Cuban culture. ... More
Salvador de Bahia, September 12 (PL-RHC)-- President of the Legislative Assembly of Bahia state, Marcelo Nilo, signed Friday a motion condemning the U.S. economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba.... More
Sanaa, September 12 (RHC)-- At least 13 Yemeni people have been killed and scores of others wounded in Saudi Arabia's latest airstrikes as Riyadh's unabated aggression against the war-torn country continues. ... More
Santiago de Chile, September 12 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Chilean President Michelle Bachelet recalled Friday that many victims of the September 11, 1973 coup against Salvador Allende were still waiting for justice. ... More
Washington, September 12 (RHC)-- The Republican-dominated U.S. House of Representatives has rejected the Iran nuclear accord overwhelmingly, in a vote that was sharply along party lines. ... More
Brussels, September 12 (RHC)-- The European states involved in the nuclear negotiations with Iran warned the U.S. Congress to approve the agreement or the Europeans would lift the sanctions against the Islamic Republic unilaterally, according to an American political commentator in Indiana. ... More
Dallas, September 12 (RHC)-- Republican candidate Rick Perry has dropped out of the race to be U.S. president days before he was to be relegated once again to a second-tier debate. Perry, former Texas governor, announced on Friday that he was suspending his presidential campaign, making him the first to depart among the crowded Republican candidates. ... More
United Nations, September 12 (RHC)-- The United Nations General Assembly has approved a resolution to make the mostly secretive selection of the secretary general more open and transparent. The resolution, passed unanimously on Friday, will allow the 193 member states of the UN to access basic information about all candidates and have the chance to meet and question them. ... More
Abuja, September 12 (RHC)-- A deadly explosion has reportedly rocked a refugee camp in Nigeria's volatile northeastern state of Adamawa. Reports say the explosion was caused by an improvised explosive device (IED) left by the tents of the camp, which houses those displaced due to the terror activities by Takfiri Boko Haram militants. ... More
New Delhi, September 12 (RHC)-- At least 104 people have been killed and dozens of others injured after a gas cylinder exploded in a restaurant in central India, police officials say. The blast happened at around 8:30 a.m. local time (0300 GMT) on Saturday at a restaurant in Jhabua district of the central Madhya Pradesh State as dozens of office workers and schoolchildren were having breakfast, senior district police official Seema Alava told reporters. ... More
Bogotá, September 12 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The leader of Colombia’s second largest guerrilla group has made a revelation that could change the course of peace talks in Havana. In an interview with Brasil de Fato, Resumen Latinoamericano and Colombia Informa, National Liberation Army (ELN) head Nicolas Rodriguez Bautista, better known as “Gabino,” mentioned the hardly known state of his group's relationship with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).... More
Caracas, September 12 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro led a preliminary consulting seminar Friday for a “New Border of Peace” in Caracas. ... More
Caracas, September 12 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The Venezuelan government rejected comments by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday’s ruling by a Venezuelan court that found opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez guilty of inciting violence that led to the deaths of 43 people in 2014.... More
Bogotá, September 12 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Enrique Peñalosa, who served as mayor of Bogota, Colombia, from 1998 to 2001, emerged as the favorite in a new poll released Friday, which was conducted by Ipsos Napoleon Franco for a consortium of Colombian media outlets.... More
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