Paris, August 22 (RHC)-- An armed man has attacked people on board a train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris, injuring three. The incident occurred on Friday afternoon at the rear of a high-speed Thalys train near the northern French city of Arras.... More
Havana, Aug 22, (RHC), – The number of Cubans with access to the Internet surpassed 3 million in 2014, according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics and Information.... More
Hurricane Danny is expected to continue to weaken as it moves towards the Leeward Islands and Puerto Rico. Danny has started to move into an environment with more wind shear, or change in wind speed with height either in speed and/or direction, and this has caused the hurricane to be downgraded from Category 3 to Category 1 intensity.... More
Havana, August 21 (RHC) -- This morning's edition of Granma newspaper highlights the 10th anniversary of the transmission of the program Alo Presidente, with the participation of the late Venezuelan Commander Hugo Chavez and the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro.... More
Sanaa, August 21 (RHC)-- More than two dozen civilians have been killed and scores of others injured after Saudi military aircraft launched a series of airstrikes in Yemen's southwestern province of Ta'izz. ... More
Guatemala City, August 21 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Over 1.6 million Central American and Caribbean farmers and their families have been seriously affected by a severe drought caused by the El Niño weather phenomenon, prompting officials of the region's countries on Thursday to declare an agricultural alert.... More
Athens, August 21 (RHC)-- Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has announced his resignation and proposed calling snap elections in the debt-ridden country next month. ... More
Washington, August 21 (RHC)-- Russia is a "very, very significant threat" to the national security of the United States, says Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, concurring with top military officials' assessment. ... More
Washington, August 21 (RHC)-- The Barack Obama administration has blocked a legal request to free a Guantánamo Bay prisoner who has been on hunger strike for eight years. ... More
Washington, August 21 (RHC)-- A report by the independent monitoring group Airwars estimates that U.S.-led airstrikes targeting ISIL in Iraq and Syria have killed at least 459 civilians since the bombings began about a year ago. ... More
London, August 21 (RHC)-- An unexploded bomb thought to be leftover from World War II has been uncovered at an east London construction site. Building contractors found the 200-kilogram-plus device while working at the site on Temple Street in the district of Bethnal Green. ... More
Miami, August 21 (RHC)-- U.S. Republican candidate Jeb Bush has refused to rule out resuming the use of torture techniques employed under his brother, former President George W. Bush. He answered a reporter's question about the use of torture, saying that if elected president, he couldn't rule out any form of interrogation. ... More
Washington, August 21 (RHC)-- Republican U.S. presidential pre-candidate Donald Trump has declined to rule out a third party presidential run, saying he might contest as an independent if denied the GOP nomination.... More
Washington, August 21 (RHC)-- U.S. Republican presidential pre-candidate Marco Rubio says, if elected president, he will cancel the nuclear agreement between Iran and the P5+1 group of countries and re-impose economic sanctions against the Islamic Republic. ... More
Paris, August 21 (RHC)-- France's far-right party National Front (FN) has decided to expel Jean-Marie Le Pen, its founder and honorary president, over his sharp criticisms of his daughter's measures as the current party leader. On Thursday, the FN's executive committee removed the octogenarian politician from his position and annulled his membership in the party. ... More
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