Havana, June 22 (RHC) -– Cuban First Vice President Miguel Diaz-Canel handed over to five-time world champ the Cuban flag that will head the Cuban sports delegation to the 17th Pan-American Games in Toronto, Canada.... More


Guatemala City, June 22 (teleSUR-RHC)-- As Guatemala's campaign for general elections gets underway under highly unusual political circumstances, 84 percent of Guatemalans agree that President Otto Perez Molina should resign from office, Guatemala's Prensa Libre reported on Friday. ... More


Sports News Roundup June 20

Cuba will return as THE invited team to the upcoming edition of the Caribbean Baseball Series, to be held from February 1st to the 7th next year in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, confirmed the Caribbean Confederation of Professional Baseball.... More


Mexico City, June 20 (teleSUR-RHC)-- At least 10 people have been killed in a bar in Mexico's northern state of Nuevo Leon in an apparent rivalry between local gangs, according to officials. ... More


Vatican City, June 20 (RHC)-- The Vatican has unveiled Pope Francis’ historic encyclical on climate change, urging world leaders to pay their "grave social debt" to the poor and take swift action to save the planet from environmental ruin. ... More


Athens, June 20 (RHC)-- The Greek debt crisis remains at an impasse after talks with eurozone finance ministers failed to reach a solution. The Greek government and European creditors are at odds over a deal before Greece’s current bailout expires at the end of month. ... More


Charleston, June 20 (RHC)-- The president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) says the recent shooting in South Carolina “was an act of racial terrorism.” ... More


Atlanta, June 20 (RHC)-- Nearly 20 known hate groups currently operate in the US state of South Carolina, where a white gunman killed 9 African Americans at a historic black church on Wednesday, according to civil rights advocacy organization. ... More


Washington, June 20 (RHC)-- Guns in the United States are mostly used for purposes other than self-defense, a gun control advocacy group says, debunking what the country’s gun lobby attempts to promote. ... More


Washington, June 20 (RHC)-- A federal appeals court has reinstated a decade-old case that could hold senior George W. Bush administration officials to account for their roles in the post-9/11 detentions, abuse and religious profiling of Muslim, Arab and South Asian men.... More


Sydney, June 20 (RHC)-- The cost of global war in the year 2014 reached $14.3 trillion, or 13.4 percent of the global gross domestic product, a report by the Institute for Economics and Peace says. Last year, the cost of global conflict equaled the combined economies of Britain, Germany, France, Brazil, Canada, and Spain, according to a recent report by the Australia-based group. ... More


Houston, June 20 (RHC)-- Oil prices in global markets have fallen again despite reports indicating the seventh weekly drop in U.S. crude reserves and ahead of an expected decision by the Federal Reserve on the interest rate. ... More


St Petersburg, June 20 (RHC-EFE) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday in St Petersburg that he views the rapprochement between Cuba and the U.S. as a positive step, EFE news agency reports.... More


Beijing, June 20 (RHC) -- Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang will arrive in Cuba on Thursday, June 25th, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said on Friday. From Havana, Wang will go on to Brasília, to attend a China-Brazil Coordination Committee meeting.... More


Pretoria, June 20 (RHC)-- South African Minister of Defense and Military Veterans, Nosiviwe Noluthando Mapisa-Nqakula, called for strengthened links with Cuba and thanked the Caribbean country for its cooperation programs with African countries.... More


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