Havana, March 31 (RHC)-- Cuba and Nicaragua signed a new air transport agreement aimed at improving services offered by airlines operating routes between the two countries.... More


Havana, March 31 (RHC)-- Cuba's Special Development Zone at Mariel and its port terminal have a capacity to receive 250,000 containers of 20-feet storage a year.... More


Sports News Roundup March 31

Ciego de Ávila put about to kill the playoffs after surpassing Granma 9-4 on Monday and placed at 1 step to qualify for the final of the 54th Cuban Baseball Championships.... More


Baghdad, March 31 (RHC)-- At least 11 people have been killed and dozens injured in a pair of explosions in a Shia neighborhood in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad as government forces continue battling the ISIL Takfiri terrorists north of the country.... More


Lima, March 31 (teleSUR-RHC) Peruvian Congress sacked Prime Minister Ana Jara late Monday over alleged spying against lawmakers, journalists, business leaders and other citizens, forcing Peru’s president to form a new government. ... More


Lausanne, March 31 (RHC)-- Six days of historic talks aimed at a nuclear deal with Iran are wrapping up in Lausanne, Switzerland. Today marks a self-imposed deadline for the deal between Iran, the United States and five other world powers.... More


Quito, March 31 (teleSUR-RHC) An opposition supporter, who recently emerged after a year in hiding as a fugitive from justice, told a private media station on Friday that he intended to go to Washington to have the U.S. government apply unilateral sanctions against Ecuador as they have done with Venezuela. ... More


United Nations, March 31 (RHC)-- Boko Haram Takfiri militants have killed over 7,300 civilians in Nigeria and neighboring countries since the beginning of last year, a UN official says.... More


Tikrit, March 31 (RHC-Xinhua) -- Iraqi security forces on Tuesday retook control of Salahudin's provincial government compound and several presidential palaces from the Islamic State (IS) militants in the provincial capital city of Tikrit, a provincial security source said.... More


KUWAIT CITY, March 31 (RHC-Xinhua) -- The third edition of international donors' conference for Syria opened Tuesday in Kuwait City, with the UN appealing for 8.4 billion U.S. dollars to fund aid programs in 2015.... More


Asunción, March 31 (teleSUR-RHC) Paraguay’s government formally requested the extradition of former politician Vilmar Acosta Marques on Monday, who is accused of being the mastermind behind the murder of journalist Pablo Medina and his aide. ... More


BEIJING, March 31 (RHC-Xinhua) -- China confirmed on Tuesday that 30 countries have been approved as prospective founding members of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).... More


Lima, March 31 (teleSUR-RHC) Foreign minister of Peru, Gonzalo Gutiérrez said on Monday leaked messages between senior Chilean and Peruvian Navy officials using a social media application confirmed Chile was spying. ... More


Washington, March 31 (RHC)-- U.S. police agents at the National Security Agency in Fort Meade, Maryland, shot and killed the driver of a car after he refused calls to stop.... More


London, March 31 (RHC)-- Britain has launched its largest aerial exercises in three decades over what London calls “increased Russian presence around UK shores.” More than 30 Royal Air Force planes took to the skies for the ‘Rising Panther’ drills.... More


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