NATO weighs deploying sophisticated AWACS surveillance aircraft to Iraq and Syria to fight Daesh, but observers believe it is aimed at Russia which is carrying out airstrikes in support of the Syrian government. ... More
More than 300 groups in Europe have urged the EU to hold Israel accountable for its human rights violations and join a global campaign for boycott of Israeli products.... More
The French parliament has extended the post-attacks state of emergency for two months to cover the prestigious European football games the country is to host.... More
WikiLeaks activist Jacob Appelbaum said Hillary Clinton will make life difficult for Julian Assange due to “bitterness” over the organization's leaks.... More
More than 1,000 striking employees of the Verizon telecommunications company have held a protest march in Washington DC against the US company’s new employment plan.... More
Representatives of Cuba and Spain are holding talks Thursday in Havana to discuss new business opportunities in the context of the island''s promotion of foreign investment. ... More
A U.S. delegation of the Mohawk tribe of Saint-Régis has travelled to Havana to be treated with Heberprot-P, a Cuban medicine used to treat diabetic foot ulcers. ... More
Websites and Internet sources Wednesday reported the complaint made by the website ''Cubanos en UK'' (Cubans in the UK) regarding the freezing of the organization's funds, which are intended to benefit students in Cuba... More
French demonstrators have set ablaze a police car in the capital, Paris, in a move to vent their outrage at police violence exercised against opponents of the contentious government-proposed labor reforms. ... More
The death toll from devastating landslides triggered by massive torrential rains has risen to nearly three dozen in Sri Lanka. ... More
A U.S. B-52 strategic military plane has been destroyed after crashing at the U.S. airbase in the Western Pacific island of Guam. ... More
French President François Hollande and Greek officials have said the EgyptAir passenger jet that disappeared this morning en route from Paris to Cairo has crashed at sea.... More
Brazil’s suspended President Dilma Rousseff has given her first interview since her ouster to The Intercept's Glenn Greenwald, the journalist chosen by whistleblower Edward Snowden to reveal the U.S. government's electronic eavesdropping on the world... More
The prominent U.S. linguist, political analyst and writer, Noam Chomsky, has slammed the elite in Brazil, saying they carried out a soft coup against the democratically elected president.... More
Peruvian presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori announced on Wednesday that Joaquin Ramirez had resigned from her Fuerza Popular Party in a bid to calm an uproar following media reports that linked the two to money laundering.... More
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