Washington, October 28 (RHC)-- A decision by the United States to sail a warship past one of China’s artificial islands in the South China Sea is an escalation that may lead to a “dangerous confrontation,” a political commentator in Washington says. ... More


Caracas, October 28 (PL-RHC)-- The Venezuelan government has established a system to determine and indicate the price of goods and services, a measure to tackle the right-wing's economic war.... More


Mexico City, October 28 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Over 8,000 indigenous people are serving sentences in Mexico's state and federal prisons because of institutionalized racism, indigenous rights advocates said on Tuesday. ... More


La Paz, October 28 (PL-RHC)-- Prosecutors from several Ibero-American countries are in Bolivia to participate in the 23rd Ordinary General Assembly of the Ibero-American Association of Public Prosecutors, which will have cybercrime as its central topic for discussion.... More


Caracas, October 28 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Venezuela will celebrate Wednesday a decade of having been declared free of illiteracy by UNESCO.... More


Bogotá, October 28 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The Patriotic Union, which made its return to Colombian politics in Sunday's elections after being nearly exterminated in the 1980s, said Tuesday that the party was the victim of fraud and called for a recount of votes in Bogotá.... More


Quito, October 28 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Spain will return 74 colonial and 49 pre-Columbian works of art to Ecuador on Wednesday, 22 years after the former were handed to a museum for restoration and 12 years after Madrid police found the latter during a raid undertaken as part of a money laundering and drug trafficking case.... More


Caracas, October 28 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Venezuela will dramatically boost the development of public housing for the poor, the government announced on Tuesday.... More


United Nations, October 27 (RHC)-- Cuba achieved an overwhelming victory at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday with the vote in favor of ending the U.S. blockade: 191 votes in favor, two against -- the United States and Israel -- and no abstentions.... More


Havana, October 27 (RHC)-- The Cuban Council of State, upon the request of its President Raul Castro, agreed to accept the resignation submitted by Interior Minister and Army General Abelardo Colome due to health reasons. ... More


Havana, October 27 (RHC)-- The President of Italy's Council of Ministers Matteo Renzi is paying an official visit to Cuba on Tuesday. ... More


Sports News Roundup October 27

When only Tuesday remains to close the qualifying stage, not counting the 11 pending games, the last tickets to the elite of the 55th Cuban Baseball Classic remain to be defined.... More


Gaza City, October 27 (RHC)-- Israeli warplanes have carried out airstrikes on areas in the south and center of the besieged Gaza Strip. The late Monday raids on the Palestinian coastal enclave followed reports of an alleged rocket attack from Gaza on southern Israel earlier in the day. ... More


Buenos Aires, October 27 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Argentina will head to a runoff presidential election next month after preliminary results from Sunday's vote show Kirchnerist candidate Daniel Scioli defeated conservative candidate Mauricio Macri by less than three percentage points. ... More


Ramallah, October 27 (RHC)-- Israeli forces have killed two more Palestinians in the occupied West Bank as the death toll of Israeli violence against Palestinians rises. A girl was killed by Israeli forces on Monday at an Israeli checkpoint at the Haram al-Ibrahimi in the city of al-Khalil, also known as Hebron. ... More


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