Paris, January 21 (RHC)-- The mayor of a Paris suburb appears to have backed down on his bid to ban screenings of an Oscar-nominated film over concerns about terrorism. ... More
San Antonio, January 21 (RHC)-- At least two people have been killed and five more injured in a shooting in the U.S. state of Texas, when gunmen opened fire on an assembly of over 100 people. ... More
Washington, January 21 (RHC-teleSUR) -- In his 2015 State of the Union speech Tuesday night, U.S. President Obama praised the new approach the United States has taken toward Cuba. The president once again recognized the failure of past policy, saying: “When what you’re doing doesn’t work for 50 years, it’s time to do something new.”... More
Havana, January 21 (RHC-teleSUR) -- The United States must remove Cuba from its list of state sponsors of terrorism, a top Cuban official said ahead of historic talks on Wednesday.... More
Mexico City, January 21 (RHC-PL) -- Cuba hopes to increase the flow of Mexican tourists and visitors to the island, this was revealed during a presentation carried out to tour-operators, travel agents and representatives of settled airlines. Xiomara Martinez, Tourism counselor at the Cuban embassy, stated that about 82,342 Mexicans visited the Caribbean island in 2014, placing this country's market as one of the major ones for Cuba in Latin America and the Caribbean. This year's hope is to reach the number of tourists from the Mexican nation, when more than 300 events, some of them dedicated to Mexico, plus other offers that include numerous Cuban cities, will take place in the Caribbean country, Martinez noted.... More
Tokyo, January 21 (RHC-PL) -- The first seminar to promote Cuba Destination 2015 in Japan was organized by the Nihonbashi Travellers Club travel agency and the embassy of Cuba in Tokyo, it was reported Tuesday. About 20 customers from Nihonbashi Travellers Club attended the workshop, where economic-commercial counselor Maylem Rivero revealed some aspects of interest linked to tourism of nature and historic interest in Cuba.... More
Quito, January 21 (RHC-teleSUR) -- Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa has compared the current economic war against the Venezuelan government to what happened in Chile in the early 1970s, which led to the toppling of socialist President Salvador Allende.... More
Havana, January 21 (RHC)-- Cuban and U.S. government delegations began talks on Wednesday aimed at restoring diplomatic ties and discussing other issues of mutual interest.... More
As the old English saying has it the Symphony Orchestra of the Higher Institute for the Arts, better known as the Cuban Art University, will be taking coal to New Castle. It has been invited to perform at the 2015 Mozart Week set for Salzburg, Austria, from January 22nd through February 1st... More
Buenos Aires, January 20 (RHC-EFE) --The death of the prosecutor who accused President Cristina Fernandez of concealing the involvement of Iran in a deadly 1994 terrorist attack on a Jewish cultural center in Buenos Aires sent shockwaves across Argentinian society on Monday.... More
United Nations, January 20 (RHC)-- The United Nations says its peacekeeping forces deployed to the occupied Golan Heights had seen drones coming from Israel before a recent airstrike by Tel Aviv that killed several Hezbollah members in Syria. ... More
La Paz, January 20 (RHC-teleSUR) -- Pope Francis has announced that he plans to visit Bolivia, Paraguay and Ecuador. The world religious leader will begin his South American tour in July. Francis ended his five day tour of the Philippines this week.... More
London, January 20 (RHC)-- Amnesty International has called on European nations to admit their involvement in operations of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency that included torture of inmates. ... More
Bogota, January 20 (RHC-EFE) -- After saying for months that fighting with the FARC guerrillas would only cease when a definitive peace accord is reached, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said Monday that a bilateral and open-ended ceasefire with the rebels could come before that.... More
Washington, January 20 (RHC)-- Protesters across the United States held more than 50 actions on Monday to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by reclaiming his radical legacy and condemning police killings of unarmed African Americans. ... More
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