Havana, March 11 (RHC) -– The nomination of candidates to district councilors for the upcoming mid-term elections in Cuba is taking place with the free and spontaneous participation of the citizens, said the National Electoral Commission.... More
Washington, March 11 (RHC) -- U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, a Republican from the state of Kansas, chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, has announced that the committee will hold a hearing on opportunities and challenges for agricultural trade with Cuba.... More
Richmond, (RHC) -— Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe is set to head to Cuba later this year as part of an economic development and trade mission, the Associated Press reported on Wednesday.... More
Tokyo, March 11 (RHC) – Cuban Vice President Ricardo Cabrisas was received on Wednesday by His Imperial Highness, Crown Prince of Japan, Naruhito. The meeting was held in the framework of Cabrisas' week-long visit to the Asian country.... More
Havana, March 11 (RHC) -– Cuba's Telecommunications Company ETECSA announced on Wednesday the re-establishment of direct communications between Cuba and the United States, initially for international telephone calls, in tune with an accord reached with the U.S. IDT Domestic Telecom Inc. ... More
Mexico City, March 11 (teleSUR-RHC)-- After enduring four hours of tough questions, controversial Supreme Court nominee, Eduardo Medina Mora, received a stamp of approval from the Mexican Senate Tuesday. ... More
Tel Aviv, March 11 (RHC)-- An Israeli opinion survey has revealed that the opposition Zionist Union is edging Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ruling Likud party, which is heading into a make-or-break election. ... More
Quito, March 11 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa announced Tuesday that the foreign ministers from the member-states of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) will meet tomorrow to discuss U.S. interference in Venezuelan affairs. ... More
Washington, March 11 (RHC)-- The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has made sophisticated efforts for nearly a decade to break the security of Apple's mobile phones and tablets, according to newly published top-secret documents. CIA researchers have worked since 2006 to create surveillance "backdoors" into programs used by Apple's iPhones and iPads, investigative news site The Intercept reported on Tuesday, citing documents obtained from US whistleblower Edward Snowden. ... More
Bogota, March 11 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The Colombian military will stop bombing FARC camps for one month, President Juan Manuel Santos announced Tuesday. ... More
Kabul, March 11 (RHC)-- At least thirteen people have been killed and tens of others injured when a string of bomb explosions ripped through the northern and southern parts of war-wracked Afghanistan. A senior police official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said one civilian lost his life and 16 others sustained injuries when a bomb exploded near a hospital in Baghlan's provincial capital city of Puli Khumri, located 230 kilometers (142 miles) north of the capital, Kabul, on Tuesday. ... More
Mexico City, March 11 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Parents and family of the disappeared 43 Ayotzinapa students led a march in the Mexican Capital to symbolically occupy the headquarters of the private television giant, Televisa, demanding that the media company offer them a so-called “right of reply.” ... More
Washington, March 11 (RHC)-- The World Bank has lowered its global growth forecast for 2015 and next year due to poor economic prospects in the eurozone, Japan and China. In its Global Economic Prospects report, the bank said the world economy will expand only three percent for 2015 -- a marked difference from its June prediction of 3.4 percent. ... More
Buenos Aires, March 11 (teleSUR-RHC)-- After a police analysis determined that the fire that burned down two warehouses owned by the Iron Mountain company in Buenos Aires in February 2014 was intentional, several questions about the links between the company and its clients and also with the Buenos Aires City government have come out to light. ... More
Old Havana’s Guayasamín House paid tribute to the famous Ecuadorian artist on the occasion of the 16th anniversary of his death on Tuesday... More
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