Havana, April 4 (RHC) -- The Antonio Nuñez Jimenez Foundation for Nature and Man (FANJ) has announced its participation on April 8-10 in the Forum of Civil Society and Social Actors. This event is sponsored by the Organization of American States, and will be held parallel to the 7th Summit of the Americas in Panama. ... More


HAVANA, Cuba, Apr 4, (RHC), -- The Cuban Academy of Sciences (ACC) has a new Corresponding Member, Doctor of Sciences Mark Rasenick, a distinguished Professor of Physiology, Biophysics and Psychiatry at the University of Illinois, Chicago, U.S.A. ... More


Kabul, April 4 (RHC)-- Seven civilians, including four children and a woman, have been killed when their vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Logar.... More


Mexico City, April 4 (RHC) -- China and Latin America led the global growth in wind energy in 2014, according to the latest report published by the Global Wind Energy Council.... More


Two murals made by Cuban artists will be on display at the Summit of the Peoples, set to run parallel to the Summit of the Americas on April 10th and 11th in Panama City... More


United Nations, April 3 (RHC)-- The United Nations says at least 519 people, including women and children, have so far lost their lives in two weeks of violence in Yemen, as Saudi Arabia continues to target the country with military strikes.... More


Mexico City, April 03 (teleSUR-RHC) In a move widely criticized by supporters, some of the parents of the 43 forcibly disappeared students accepted a help offer on Tuesday from a Mexican drug cartel known as Los Rojos. ... More


Lausanne, April 3 (RHC)-- After eight days of talks in Switzerland, Iran and world powers have reached a framework agreement on curbing Iran’s nuclear program for at least a decade. In return, the United States and Europe plan to lift economic sanctions on Iran.... More


Nairobi, April 3 (RHC)-- The death toll from an attack by al-Shabab militants on a university in the town of Garissa in eastern Kenya has risen to 147, Kenyan government officials say. The officials said that security forces killed all four attackers who had taken hundreds of students hostage at the Garissa University College campus on Thursday.... More


Mexico City, April 03 (teleSUR-RHC) The Ecological Green Party of Mexico (PVEM) was fined on Thursday by the Mexican electoral authority for distributing propaganda printed on material that was deemed to be unfriendly to the environment. ... More


Baghdad, April 3 (RHC)-- Police and medical officials in Iraq say at least 11 people have been killed and over two dozen others injured in separate bomb explosions that struck areas in the capital, Baghdad.... More


Abuja, April 3 (RHC)-- At least five people have been killed and 15 others wounded in an explosion in the northeastern Nigerian city of Gombe, witnesses say. According to reports, the bomb went off near a bus station on Thursday.... More


Berlin, April 3 (RHC)-- The second black box from the doomed Germanwings passenger plane that recently crashed in the French Alps has been recovered following a nine-day search.... More


Damascus, April 3 (RHC)-- In Syria, Islamic State fighters have taken over most of a massive camp for Palestinian refugees on the outskirts of Damascus. Yarmouk is home to some 18,000 people and has repeatedly been stuck in the crossfire of Syria’s civil war.... More


Dallas, April 3 (RHC)-- Dozens of immigrant women detained at the Karnes Family Detention Camp in Texas have launched a hunger strike, saying their children’s health is suffering behind bars.... More


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