The 14th Guillermo Barreto in Memoriam Drum Festival kicked off in Havana with a night to dream and visit different musical genre... More


Sport News Roundup March 03

Ciego de Ávila remained in 3rd place at the 54th Cuban Baseball Championship by beating 8-1 to Isla de la Juventud on Monday to be ratified as the best team in the 2nd stage of the Season.... More


Caracas, March 3 (RHC)-– The Venezuelan government has given the United States two weeks to cut the number of U.S. diplomats in the country from 100 to 17, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez announced on Monday. ... More


Geneva, March 3 (RHC)-- Germany's Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier says negotiations between Tehran and the P5+1 group of countries on Iran's nuclear program have been progressing well. ... More


Santiago de Chile, March 3 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Chile's Villarrica Volcano erupted early Tuesday sending ash and lava high into the sky and forcing authorities to evacuate nearby communities. ... More


Mexico City, March 3 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Mexico's La Jornada newspaper reports that at least $31 billion have been taken from the country during the first two years of President Enrique Peña Nieto's administration. ... More


Washington, March 3 (RHC)-- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu testifies before the U.S. Congress today in a bid to stop a nuclear deal with Iran. His visit comes as Iran, the United States and other world powers have resumed nuclear talks ahead of a March 31st deadline. ... More


Lima, March 3 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Hundreds of people participated in a vigil in the Peruvian capital of Lima Monday night to support legislation that would allow civil marriage between people of the same sex.... More


Ramallah, March 3 (RHC)-- Palestinians have begun a campaign to boycott Israeli goods sold in the occupied West Bank by means of confiscating and destroying the products. On Tuesday, campaign leader Abdullah Kmail said activists will visit shops and target products from six major Israeli food companies in the coming days. ... More


Mexico City, March 3 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Mexico’s Senate Justice Committee approved Arely Gomez as the nominee for the country’s new attorney general post on Monday, days after former law-enforcement chief, Jesus Murillo Karam, was moved to a different position. ... More


Kabul, March 3 (RHC)-- A car bomb has killed eight people, including security officials, in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand. Five civilians, two soldiers and a police officer were killed on Tuesday as a powerful bomb was detonated remotely in the Sangin district. ... More


Caracas, March 3 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Venezuela has launched a campaign against the environmental toll of hydraulic fracturing in the United States with a new exhibition entitled “F*cking Fracking.” ... More


Quito, March 3 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The World Organization for Animal Health has announced that Ecuador has successfully eradicated foot-and-mouth disease. ... More


Baghdad, March 3 (RHC)-- Iraqi forces and militias are continuing their largest offensive to date against the so-called Islamic State as they seek to retake the city of Tikrit. ... More


Washington, March 3 (RHC)-- The U.S. Justice Department has agreed to pay $25,000 to a college student who was detained at an airport for five hours in 2009 for having Arabic-language flashcards in his pocket. ... More


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