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


The National Arts Teaching Award for 2015 was granted to musician and pedagogue, Roberto Chorens, in recognition of his successful career as a professor in different Cuban artistic educational institutions... More


Sports News Roundup Jan. 20

Cuba will this weekend see the 2015 CAMTRI American Cup and Iberoamerican Championships contested in Havana, offering sprint, middle and long distances races for both elite and age group athletes from January 24th-25th.... More


Sports News Roundup Jan. 19

Granma added on Sunday its 8th consecutive victory in the 54th Cuban Baseball Championship to overcome current monarch Pinar del Río by 6-3, to complete the sweep in their bilateral subseries and maintained the siege of the top.... More


Buenos Aires, January 19 (RHC), -- The Argentine state prosecutor who was investigating the 1994 attack on the AMIA Jewish Center in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people, has been found dead in his apartment, local media reported on Monday. ... More


Damascus, January 19 (RHC)-- A military helicopter gunship operated by the Israeli army has struck a village in the Syrian Golan Heights. The Israeli helicopter fired two missiles into Amal Farms in the strategic southwestern city of Quneitra, situated some 60 kilometers south of the capital, Damascus, on Sunday.... More


La Paz, January 19 (RHC-EFE) -- At least 15 people died and some 10,400 families have suffered property damage as a result of the intense rains and flooding affecting Bolivia, especially six of the country's nine regions, a government official said Sunday.... More


Abuja, January 19 (RHC)-- Takfiri Boko Haram militants have attacked northern Cameroon -- abducting dozens of people as a contingent of soldiers from neighboring Chad arrived in the central African country to battle the Nigeria-based terrorists. ... More


Kabul, January 19 (RHC)-- At least three people have been killed in the latest U.S. assassination drone strike in Afghanistan's eastern province of Nangarhar. Local officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, identified one of the victims as a young boy who was watching over a herd of sheep, adding that the Saturday attack also targeted two members of the Taliban militant group. ... More


Mexico City, January 19 (RHC-EFE) --Father Alejandro Solalinde, known for his work on behalf of Central American migrants, said he has joined the search for the 43 education students who disappeared in southern Mexico last year.... More


Ramallah, January 19 (RHC)-- The Palestinian Authority says it will fully cooperate with the International Criminal Court (ICC) after The Hague-based body's announcement of an initial investigation into Israel's war crimes against Palestinians. ... More


Buenos Aires, January 19 (RHC-teleSUR) -- Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez met over the weekend with the star French economist Thomas Piketty, discussing issues related to economics and equality.... More


London, January 19 (RHC)-- In the aftermath of the recent terror attacks in Europe, concerns are rising over the emergence of a wave of anti-Muslim violence across the world. Some analysts believe that certain Western powers are already utilizing the recent events in France, Belgium and elsewhere to put Muslims under pressures. ... More


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