Columbia, July 20 (RHC)-- Hundreds of activists of the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan group have staged a demonstration in front of the South Carolina Statehouse to protest the removal of the controversial Confederate flag. ... More


Berlin, July 20 (RHC)-- Thousands of people have been evacuated in northern Germany as the government is set to defuse unexploded bombs left from the World War II there. Officials in northern Germany evacuated around 16,000 people from their homes on Sunday near the city of Hanover. ... More


Manila, July 20 (RHC)-- Floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains have hit large parts of the northern Philippines, leaving at least four people dead and thousands displaced, the government says. ... More


Sports News Roundup July 20

The Cuban delegation is placed today at the 5th seat of the medal table of the 17th Pan-American Games Toronto 2015 underway in Canada, showing 23 gold, 18 silver and 26 bronze medals.... More


The flag that we revere at the entrance of this room is the same that was hauled down here 54 years ago, which was zealously kept in Florida by a family of liberators and later on by the Museum of our eastern city of Las Tunas, as a sort of premonition that this day would certainly come.... More


Mexico City, July 20 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Femicide in the violent state of Sinaloa has increased by over 110 percent in the last two decades, lawmaker Maria del Rosario Sanchez denounced on Sunday, according to local newspaper RioDoce. ... More


Mexico City, July 20 (teleSUR-RHC)-- New information has been released by the Mexican government that again exposes the high-level of complicity in the second escape of the most wanted drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman's from a maximum security prison. ... More


Bogota, July 20 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Colombian guerrilla group FARC freed an army sub-lieutenant on Saturday, with mediation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). ... More


Managua, July 20 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Thousands of people across Nicaragua continue celebrations on Sunday to commemorate the 36th anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution, a movement that sprung up in the 1970's to oust the oppressive U.S.-backed Somoza dictatorship. ... More


Brasilia, July 20 (XINHUA-RHC)-- Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff says there is no space for "anti-democratic adventures" in the sub-regional bloc MERCOSUR, the Common Market of the South. She made the remarks at the 48th MERCOSUR Summit held in Brasilia, where she passed the bloc's presidency to Paraguay after holding the position for six months.... More


Brasilia, July 20 (MERCOPRESS-RHC)-- Member States of MERCOSUR, the Common Market of the South, agreed at their summit that in the second half of this year they will address alternatives for the elimination of tariffs and other similar barriers which prevent the flow of trade of goods and services among them. ... More


Bridgetown, July 20 (PL-RHC)--The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has given to Haiti more than $2 million to face and cover damages associated with the 2015 and 2016 hurricane seasons.... More


Havana, July 20 (RHC) --- The U.S. diplomatic mission in Cuba has issued a press release in Havana for the first time in 54 years, identifying itself as "The Embassy of the United States of America, Havana, Cuba," to announce the new bilateral relationship. ... More


Managua, July 20 (RHC)-- The five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters Gerardo Hernandez, Rene Gonzalez, Ramon Labañino, Antonio Guerrero and Fernando Gonzalez were presented with the “Order of Peacemakers” by members of the Sandinista Youth on Sunday in Managua.... More


Washington, July 20 (RHC) –- The Embassy of Cuba in the U.S. capital, Washington, DC was inaugurated on Monday, July 20th, in a ceremony that saw the Cuban flag being raised once again after an absence of more than 50 years.3331... More


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