London, May 15 (RHC)-- David Cameron and his conservative party are under pressure to call a referendum on Britain’s membership in the European Union. Reports say some conservative backbenchers are pushing the prime minister to introduce legislation for an in/out referendum on the EU within the first 100 days of his parliament. ... More
Abuja, May 15 (RHC)-- Local residents and army officials say at least nine people have been killed after Boko Haram Takfiri militants launched an attack in Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno. ... More
Havana, May 15 (RHC) -– The third Cuba-U.S. round of talks on the reestablishment of diplomatic relations and the opening of embassies in Havana and Washington will take place May 21st in Washington, DC.... More
Havana, May 15 (RHC) –- Cuban First Vice President Miguel Diaz Canel presided over the main ceremony on Friday commemorating the 60th anniversary of the release from prison of Fidel Castro and his companions, who were imprisoned in the Model Jail on the Isle of Youth after their failed attack on the Moncada military garrison on July 26, 1953. ... More
Havana, May 15 (RHC) –- The president of the United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development, Kanayo Wanze, highlighted the contribution made by that agency to the production of foodstuffs in Cuba.... More
Havana, May 15 (RHC) -– As part of preparations to face possible earthquakes, Cubans launched the “Sismo 2015” exercise, aimed at strengthening the response capacity against high-intensity earth and sea-quakes. ... More
Baracoa, (RHC-PL) May 15 -- The Alejandro de Humbolt National Park, a World Heritage Site, is one of the world's best conserved natural reserves, according to Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment (CITMA) experts.... More
Havana, May 15 (RHC) -– Focusing on increasing production yields, Cuban farmers opened the 11th Congress of the National Small Farmers Association, which groups some 400 thousand private and cooperative farmers throughout the island. ... More
Santiago de Chile, May 15 (RHC)-- In Chile, two students have been shot dead in the port city of Valparaiso amid mass protests demanding a greater voice in education reforms promised by President Michelle Bachelet.... More
Cuban Leinier Dominguez defeated Russian Dmitry Jakovenko on Friday in the second round of the Chess Grand Prix in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. Dominguez won in 36 moves with a semi-Slavic defense and earned 1,5 points and comes first after two matches.... More
Georgetown, May 15 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Guyana’s opposition coalition won the national elections on Thursday, ending the rule of the Indo-Guyanese party in the country for the last 23 years. ... More
Quito, May 15 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Ecuador's President Rafael Correa warned on Thursday during a televised interview that the right-wing of Latin America seems to be planning to destabilize the region's progressive governments. ... More
Mexico City, May 15 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Members of the Jalisco drug cartel in Mexico have received paramilitary training from foreign military veterans, including from the United States, according to various Mexican authorities quoted in a Wall Street Journal report published on Wednesday. ... More
Washington, May 15 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The House of Representatives rejected a proposal on Thursday to close down the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay. ... More
Lima, May 15 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Peruvian judicial authorities granted the request from human rights groups to re-open the case of thousands of rural indigenous women forcefully sterilized under Alberto Fujimori dictatorship in the 1990s. ... More
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