Abuja, April 28 (RHC)-- Bodies of hundreds of people have been discovered in the northeastern Nigerian town of Damasak, with the Takfiri Boko Haram terrorist group singled out as the prime suspect in the apparent massacre. ... More
Georgetown, April 28 (RHC) -- Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries say they will give urgent attention to a request from Cuba for additional preferential access to the market of the more developed countries of the 15-member CARICOM grouping, the Jamaica Observer reports.... More
Havana, April 28 (RHC) -- More than 30 leading company executives from the United Kingdom and their Cuban counterparts are discussing business possibilities in the context of a managerial forum opened Tuesday in Havana.... More
Havana, April 28 (RHC) –- The UVZ-Logistik subsidiary of Russia’s Uralvagonzavod is to establish a transportation logistics joint venture in Cuba, in partnership with Cuban metallurgy and engineering firm GESIME and national operator Unión Ferrocarriles de Cuba, the Railway Gazette reports.... More
Camagüey, April 28 (RHC) -- From May 8th through the 10th, Camaguey will co-host POSTUR 2015, an event that will follow the International Tourism Fair FITCuba 2015. ... More
Mexico City, April 28 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Less than half of the population of Mexico has faith in the electoral process, with most of them believing it lacks transparency and includes vote buying by politicians, according to a new study by the country’s National Electoral Institute released Monday.... More
Bogota, April 28 (RHC) -– Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said that a bi-lateral ceasefire, like that requested by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, at ongoing peace negotiations in Cuba, will come into effect in Colombia only at the end of peace negotiations.... More
Sanaa, April 28 (RHC)-- Saudi Arabia's military campaign against Yemen continues as warplanes pound residential areas in the impoverished Arab country. In the latest airstrikes, which occurred sometime between late Monday and early Tuesday, one civilian was killed and several others were injured in the Sawfan neighborhood of capital Sanaa. ... More
New York, April 28 (RHC)-- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif have met on the sidelines of a UN anti-nuclear weapons conference in New York. The meeting was held on Monday at the residence of Iran's ambassador to the United Nations where the two are taking part in the 2015 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). ... More
Baltimore, April 28 (RHC)-- Street clashes between police and civil rights protesters have erupted in the U.S. city of Baltimore after the funeral of an African-American man who died last week in police custody after officers broke his spine. ... More
Brasilia, April 28 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Brazil’s controversial labor reforms are up for discussion on Tuesday as union representatives and political officials begin high-level discussions. ... More
Roseau, April 28 (NNN-RHC)-- The Organization of Eastern Caribbean States is working on a plan to reduce young people unemployment, the Dominica government said Monday. Throughout the world, the young people unemployment rate is twice that for adults, the government said in a statement.... More
Port-of-Spain, April 28 (NNN-RHC)-- Trinidad and Tobago is set to host the May 5-7 Forum on the Future of the Caribbean, which will include heads of governments, business leaders and academic experts to discuss poverty, inequality and resource mobilization in the region.... More
Kathmandu, April 27 (RHC)-- At least 3,700 people have been confirmed dead after Saturday’s devastating 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Nepal. More than 6,500 people have been injured, and the death toll has continued to rise sharply, with the full extent of the damage still largely unknown. ... More
With the victory of Julio Cesar La Cruz during the qualifying segment of the V World Series of Boxing, Cuba won its 5th Olympic ticket.... More
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