Beijing, September 2 (RHC) -– Cuban First Vice President Miguel Diaz-Canel is in Beijing to participate in commemorations for the 70th Anniversary of China's victory over fascism and the end of World War II.... More
Industriales said victorious goodbye at the Jose Ramon Cepero Stadium, beating the host and defending champion, Ciego de Avila, this time 9-4, in the 3rd date of the 55th National Baseball Series.... More
Sanaa, September 2 (RHC)-- Saudi Arabia's fresh airstrikes have claimed the lives of at least 30 people in Yemen amid the silence of the international community. According to reports on Tuesday, Saudi fighter jets pounded an area between the Yemeni provinces of Shabwa and Ma'rib, leaving 17 people dead. ... More
Quito, September 2 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) Secretary-General Ernesto Samper announced Tuesday that during the next ministerial meeting of the bloc he would propose forming a commission to verify and guarantee human rights at the border between Colombia and Venezuela.... More
Islamabad, September 2 (RHC)-- Aanother U.S. assassination drone strike in Pakistan's tribal region has claimed the lives of at least five people, Pakistani security officials say. "A militant compound was targeted by firing two missiles killing five militants," an unidentified senior Pakistani security official told AFP on Tuesday, adding that the identities of the victims could not be ascertained immediately. ... More
Istanbul, September 2 (RHC)-- Police in Turkey have used water cannons, rubber bullets and tear gas to break up an anti-government demonstration held in the northwestern city of Istanbul. Some 500 people gathered in the city's Istiklal Street on Tuesday, while shouting slogans against the government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and its offensive against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). ... More
Hanoi, September 2 (RHC) –- Tens of thousands of spectators from around the globe packed major downtown streets of the Vietnamese capital, Hanoi, on September 2nd to catch a glimpse of the massive parade marking National Day. ... More
United Nations, September 2 (RHC)-- A small strip of land next to the Mediterranean Sea, which has been ravaged by war and years of a crippling economic blockade may become uninhabitable by the next five years. The United Nations says there is no way to "reverse the ongoing de-development and impoverishment," unless Israel's grueling blockade on the Gaza Strip is lifted. ... More
New York, September 2 (RHC)-- U.S. police killed 105 people during the month of August, in which six cops were also shot. As no American government agency tracks the number, there were conflicting figures of the death, but the Killed by Police Project, put the death toll at 105 people. ... More
Washington, September 2 (RHC)-- U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has said about half the detainees at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba need to be imprisoned "indefinitely" and cannot be released to other nations.... More
Moscow, September 2 (RHC)-- Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has called for an end to "unrealistic and illogical" demands for the resignation of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. ... More
Beijing, September 2 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Venezuela will gradually increase its oil production over the next few months with a $5-billion loan granted by China, President Nicolas Maduro announced in Beijing on Tuesday.... More
Guatemala City, September 2 (teleSUR-RHC)-- A Guatemalan federal judge prohibited President Otto Perez Molina from leaving the country on Tuesday. The ruling came hours after Congress stripped the head of state of his immunity to face trial on corruption charges.... More
Lima, September 2 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Peruvian indigenous protesters seized oil wells in an Amazonian oil block on Tuesday to press the government respond to demands for compensation due to the pollution caused by oil operations. Protesters from the Achuar indigenous communities said they also plan to halt output in a nearby concession.... More
Lima, September 2 (teleSUR-RHC)-- An assembly of social organizations in the Amazonian region of Loreto has voted to carry out another 48-hour strike beginning Friday to protest the government's privatization move to allocate an oil lot to a Canadian company for two years instead of the country's state-owned company.... More
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