New Delhi, March 19 (RHC) -- India and Cuba will seek to engage in the pharmaceutical and public transport sectors during the visit to India of Cuba's First Vice President Miguel Diaz-Canel.... More


Caracas, March 18 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The heads of state and governments of the Bolivarian Alliance of the Americas (ALBA) expressed their support for the governments of Cristina Fernandez of Argentina and Dilma Rousseff of Brazil during an extraordinary summit of the leftist regional bloc on Tuesday.... More


Sports News Roundup March 18

Isla de la Juventud defeated Industriales and woke up in 4th place of the Classification Zone, last berth of access to post-season, 2 days to conclude the regular schedule of the 54th Cuban Baseball Classic.... More


Jerusalem, March 18 (RHC-Xinhua) -- Incumbent Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu emerged early Wednesday as the decisive winner of Israel's parliamentary election, showed official results after 99 percent of the ballots having been counted.... More


Tegucigalpa, March 18 (teleSUR-RHC) The Honduran Supreme Court Tuesday accepted former President Rafael Callejas’ proposal to allow presidential re-election, something which is currently prohibited.... More


Damascus, March 18 (RHC)-- A U.S. drone has been shot down by Syria’s military over the coastal province of Latakia near a stronghold of President Bashar al-Assad, Syrian state media say. "Syrian air defenses brought down a hostile U.S. surveillance aircraft over north Latakia," AFP quoted the official SANA news agency as saying on Tuesday.... More


Castries, March 18 (teleSUR-RHC) Saint Lucia is celebrating a record double-digit increase in the number of tourists staying on the island. It is good news for an island that is heavily dependent on the sector.... More


Moscow, March 17 (Xinhua) -- Russian Armed Forces have been put on high alert in its western and southern military districts, as well as in the western sector of Arctic, the Russian Defense Ministry said Tuesday.... More


Mexico City, March 18 (teleSUR-RHC) In a relatively brief welcome ceremony Tuesday, Mexico’s Supreme Court officially recognized the arrival of its newest and controversial justice, Eduardo Medina Mora, filling a seat that was vacated three months ago.... More


Quito, March 18 (teleSUR-RHC) Selling clothes, kitchenware, food and other goods outside Ecuador’s Institute for Social Security (IESS) are a handful of the country’s 3.7 million people working in the informal sector.... More


RAMALLAH, March 18 (Xinhua) -- A senior Palestinian official reiterated Wednesday after Israeli elections results that without establishing a Palestinian state with east Jerusalem as its capital, “there will be no peace in the Middle East” said Nabil Abu Rdineh, spokesman of the Palestinian presidency.... More


Buenos Aires, March 18 (teleSUR-RHC) Buenos Aires is preparing to elect its mayor, local legislators and ward representatives for the next four years. The candidates have been named ahead of the district’s first ever open, compulsory, and simultaneous primary elections on April 26.... More


Tunis, Tunisia (RHC), -- In Tunisia, gunmen opened fire Wednesday at a leading museum in the capital, Tunis, killing at least 19 people, including 17 foreign tourists, authorities said.... More


Franktfurt, March 18 (Xinhua)-- At least 88 pólice officers were injured and more than 500 people arrested after anti-austerity protests in Frankfurt turned into clashes between protesters and police on Wednesday, local media reported.... More


Washington, March 18 (RHC)-- The lawyer for a U.S. State Department contractor imprisoned for leaking classified information blasts the “profound double standard” in the leniency shown to former CIA director David Petraeus for similar conduct.... More


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