Sport News Roundup May 16

Cuba remained unbeaten by winning, on Thursday, the fourth game of the Maximo Gomez Men's Volleyball Cup, held throughout the week and continuing in different cities in the Dominican Republic.... More


Cairo, May 16 (RHC-AGENCIES) -– An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced ousted President Mohammed Morsi to death over his part in a mass prison break that took place during the 2011 uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak .... More


Caracas, May 16 (RHC-PL), -- Venezuelan authorities this week denounced several campaigns from Colombia and Spain to criminalize the South American nation.... More


Brussels, May 16, (RHC), – EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini will visit the Middle East next week for talks on the peace process with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Brussels said Frida... More


Sanaa, May 16 (RHC)-- The Saudi military has fired over a dozen rockets into Yemen in flagrant violation of a “cease-fire” declared by Riyadh itself amid its military aggression against the impoverished country.... More


A jury sentenced Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death Friday for the Boston Marathon bombing, sweeping aside pleas that he was just a "kid" who fell under the influence of his fanatical older brother. ... More


US commandos mounted a rare raid into eastern Syria overnight, killing a senior Islamic State commander and about a dozen others in a firefight, capturing his wife and rescuing a Yazidi woman held as a slave, the Pentagon said Saturday. ... More


United Nations, May 16 (RHC)-- The United Nations says more than 100,000 Burundians have been forced to leave their violence-stricken country, which recently witnessed a coup attempt.... More


Arequipa, May 16 (RHC-Eurionews), -- More than 30 people, many of them police officers, were injured in clashes in southern Peru on Friday. Violence broke out in the city of Arequipa, during a protest against plans for copper mining.... More


Ramallah, May 16 (RHC)-- Dozens of people have been injured after Israeli regime forces fired live rounds to disperse thousands of Palestinian demonstrators marking the 67th anniversary of the Nakba Day (Day of the Catastrop... More


Santo Comingo, May 16 (RHC)-- U.S. authorities say they have arrested a man who made drunken threats about detonation of a bomb onboard a passenger plane heading to New York. A Friday statement by airport security officials said the man forced the plane to return to Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic, on Thursday, the Associated Press reported.... More


Panama, May 16, (RHC), -- The President of the Latin American Parliament (Parlatino), Elias Castillo, stressed the permanent and unwavering stance of that organization against the US economic blockade on Cuba.... More


Havana, May 16 (RHC) -- The Vice President of Angola, Manuel Domingos Vicente, is set to arrive in Cuba on Sunday for an official visit.... More


Havana, May 16 (RHC), -- The 48-member-strong Cuban medical team that arrived in Nepal this week will shortly begin to assist the victims of recent devastating earthquakes in that Asian nation. A field hospital managed by the Cuban doctors will soon open its doors in Kathmandu, the capital of the Himalayan country.... More


Havana, May 16 (RHC), -- The Cuban Five anti-terrorism fighters have received the Julio Antonio Mella Prize, granted by the Computer Sciences University (UCI) to prominent alumni, and for the first time given to people outside its enrollment.... More


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