United Nations, January 20 (RHC)-- Liberian Nobel peace laureate Leymah Gbowee has urged the UN Security Council to undertake reforms to better reflect the current world. The peace activist made the comments at the Council’s open meeting on Monday on the importance of “inclusive development” in advancing peace, urging reduction of inequality and promotion of inclusiveness around the world. ... More
Berlin, January 20 (RHC)-- In Germany, anti-racist demonstrators have continued to outnumber participants at anti-Islam rallies. The far-right Pegida party was banned from rallying in Dresden Monday after an assassination threat against group leaders. ... More
Guatemala City, January 20 (RHC-teleSUR) -- A Guatemalan court found Pedro Garcia Arredondo guilty Monday of murder, attempted murder, and crimes against humanity when he murdered 37 people at the Spanish embassy in Guatemala in 1980.... More
New York, January 20 (RHC)-- Fox News has apologized for broadcasting false information about Muslims in the wake of the attacks on Charlie Hebdo and a kosher market in Paris. ... More
Tegucigalpa, January 20 (RHC-teleSUR) -- The President of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernandez on Monday visited the United States for a high level security meeting to plan the next steps in the 2015 war on drugs, which is slated to include more US presence and an increased military budget.... More
Maputo, January 20 (RHC)-- Massive floods in Mozambique have claimed the lives of 71 people over the last ten days. Mozambican authorities said on Monday that the floods caused by heavy rains have affected about 80,000 people in the center and north of the country. ... More
Washington, January 20 (RHC-EFE) -- A total of 78 former politicians, businessmen and members of the Cuban-American community on Monday sent an open letter to U.S. President Barack Obama, asking him to work with Congress to move forward on normalizing relations with Cuba.... More
Washington, January 20 (RHC) -- The first U.S. government delegation to travel to Havana since the announcement of the normalization of relations is slated to arrive between January 20 and 21 for bilateral talks on the normalization of ties starting on Wednesday.... More
Havana, January 20 (RHC) –- Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez met on Monday with a group of U.S. congresspeople who visited the island over the weekend.... More
Havana, January 20 (RHC) -– Alberto Alvariño Atienza, Deputy Head of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, led a Cuban diplomatic delegation to visit Beijing and explore developments in China’s publishing industry.... More
Washington, January 20 (RHC)-- President Obama will tell members of Congress at tonight’s State of the Union he has done all he can do to normalize relations with Cuba and only they can lift the 50-year-old blockade, an official source told ABC News. ... More
Washington, January 20 (RHC) -- Six in 10 Americans say they approve of the government's recent move to provide diplomatic recognition of Cuba by the United States, according to a new NBC News/ Wall Street Journal poll. ... More
Minsk, January 20 (RHC-BelTA) – Economic partnership between Belarus and Cuba should be at the same level of our excellent political relations, Cuban Ambassador to Belarus, Gerardo Suarez Alvarez, told a press conference in Minsk on Tuesday.... More
Asuncion, January 20 (RHC-teleSUR) -- Hundreds of Paraguayan small-scale farmers began a new round of protests Monday, after they announced that talks with the government in Asuncion had collapsed.... More
Montevideo, January 20 (RHC-Xinhua) -- Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes has called for stiff penalties against police officials accused of stealing confiscated cocaine, a top official said Monday.... More
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