London, December 26 (RHC)-- Former British Foreign Office Minister Baroness Sayeeda Warsi says the United Kingdom must unilaterally recognize Palestine as an independent country. In an exclusive interview with English-language newspaper daily The Independent on Thursday, Warsi said London's policy of "Israeli appeasement" is not working, and called on British ministers to openly condemn Israeli settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank. ... More
Mexico City, December 26 (RHC-teleSUR) -- Dozens of family members of the missing Mexican students, organizations and supporters protested Thursday in front of the German embassy to demand that the European country stop selling weapons to Mexico.... More
Tel Aviv, December 26 (RHC)-- The Israeli regime has approved the construction of 243 new illegal settler units in the occupied Palestinian territories, despite mounting international criticism of Israeli settlement expansion. ... More
Bogotá, December 26 (RHC-teleSUR) -- The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) will release a Colombian soldier who they have been holding since December 19th, according to a statement released by the rebel group on Thursday.... More
Tel Aviv, December 26 (RHC)-- Israel has announced the arrest of two dozen high-ranking officials for involvement in an unprecedented graft case. Israeli police announced Thursday that it has detained 24 senior officials in a corruption probe which has mostly hit Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beiteinu party. ... More
Washington, December 26 (RHC)-- The fallout of a damning U.S. Congressional report condemning CIA torture techniques continues. While the controversial report is still at the center of debates in political circles around the world, new aspects of it are making their way to the media. ... More
Caracas, December 26 (RHC-teleSUR) -- The Venezuelan parliament votes Friday for new magistrates for the Supreme Court of Justice.... More
Colombo, December 26 (RHC)-- More than 650,000 people have been displaced after days of heavy rains triggered massive floods and landslides in Sri Lanka. The Disaster Management Center (DMC) stated on Thursday that the Batticaloa district, located about 300 kilometers east of the capital, Colombo, was the worst-affected area. The center added that the number of displaced people will likely rise. ... More
Havana, December 26 (RHC)-- In a letter to Fidel and Raul Castro, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro hailed the significance of the U.S. decision to release three Cuban anti-terrorist fighters in exchange for an U.S. intelligence operative held in Havana and Cuba's release on humanitarian grounds of U.S. government subcontractor Alan Gross ... More
Moscow, December 26 (RHC-PL) -- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with Kommersant daily that his country's strategic partnership with Cuba is “unshakable,” when referring to the recent announcement of actions for normalizing Havana-Washington relations.... More
Santa Clara, December 26 (RHC-teleSUR) -- Cuban doctors successfully performed a rare and complex combined heart-lung surgery over the holidays, saving the life of a young child, according to Granma newspaper.... More
Boston, December 26 (RHC)-- Harriet R. Lewis, Vice Chair of Overseas Adventure Travel and Chairman of Grand Circle Foundation, anticipates a significant increase in travel to Cuba among older Americans in light of President Obama's announcement of a new era of relations between the United States and Cuba. Lewis' charitable Grand Circle Foundation has been operating People-to-People Programs in Cuba since late 2011.... More
Port-au-Prince, December 26 (RHC-teleSUR) -- Haitian President Michel Martelly named veteran politician Evans Paul as prime minister Thursday, as the embattled president seeks to defuse a political crisis over long-delayed elections.... More
Ernesto Miguel Pérez will turn 11 on Dec. 29 as a happy child gifted with a special talent for chess.... More
The Cuban economy will grow four percent "or more" in 2015, the Minister of Economy and Planning, Marino Murillo has said.... More
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