Mexico City, January 15 (RHC-EFE, -- Authorities in northern Mexico apprehended 22 reputed members of the Los Zetas drug cartel, including seven people wanted in connection with a triple-murder, Nuevo Leon state Gov. Rodrigo Medina said Wednesday.... More
Ramallah, January 15 (RHC)-- Israeli forces have arrested at least 18 Palestinians during an overnight raid on a number of houses in the occupied West Bank. Palestinian sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said military trucks and jeeps rolled into the town of Beit Ummar, located eleven kilometers northwest of Hebron, early on Wednesday. ... More
Bogota, January 15 (RHC-Xinhua) -- Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos Wednesday met with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in Bolivia to discuss plans to bring Internet service to the masses.... More
Rio de Janeiro, January 15 (RHC-Xinhua) -- Anvisa, Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency, announced on Wednesday that it will no longer forbid the sale of medicine containing cannabidiol, a cannabis-based substance, in the country.... More
Berlin, January 15 (RHC)-- In Germany, a record 25,000 people joined an anti-Islam rally in the city of Dresden. The far-right group Pegida has held weekly rallies against Islam, but this rally was the largest to date. ... More
Kabul, January 15 (RHC)-- At least three civilians, including a young girl, have been killed after their vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan's eastern province of Paktia. Kaftan Ikhlas, a local official, said the incident took place in Zurmat District of the province, situated more than 100 kilometers (62 miles) south of the capital, Kabul, when a remote-controlled bomb went off as the car was passing by. ... More
Montevideo, January 15 (RHC-EFE) -– An effort via social networks to organize a massive send-off for Uruguay's President Jose Mujica when he leaves office next month has been canceled in deference to the head of state's wishes, organizers said Wednesday.... More
Washington, January 15 (RHC)-- The Republican-controlled House of Representatives has voted to undo major portions of President Obama's executive action on immigration. ... More
Tegucigalpa, January 15 (RHC-teleSUR) -- A group of armed men set fire to several houses in the Garifuna community of Nueva Armenia in Atlantida, Honduras this week according to the Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras.... More
New York, January 15 (RHC)-- A U.S. federal appeals court has heard from civil rights groups seeking to reinstate a lawsuit against the New York City Police Department's secret surveillance of Muslims and Arabs in neighboring New Jersey. ... More
Washington, January 15 (RHC)-- The Barack Obama administration on Thursday announced the details of new regulations that will ease travel and trade restrictions with Cuba as part of President Obama's bid to normalize relations with Cuba for the first time in a half century. The rules, announced by the Treasury and Commerce departments, will take effect on Friday, the Hill newspaper reported. ... More
Washington, January 15 (RHC) –- U.S. companies are ready to support new regulations announced by the White House with the aim of easing restrictions on trade with Cuba, according to U.S. media reports.... More
Havana, January 15 (RHC) -– Religious leaders gathered in a joint initiative known as the Cuban Inter-religious Platform have called an International Meeting for inter-religious dialog and world peace in Havana from October 16th to the 18th. ... More
Havana, January 15 (RHC) -– Cuban doctor Felix Baez, who overcame the Ebola virus which he contracted in Sierra Leone, has returned to that Western African nation to continue fighting the disease along his comrades with the Henry Reeve international medical brigade.... More
Washington, January 15 (RHC) -– The U.S. Agriculture Coalition for Cuba, USACC, founded a year ago and grouping 25 agricultural organizations, recently held a press conference in Washington D.C. to explain the importance of lifting the U.S. blockade of Cuba and reestablishing bilateral trade relations.... More
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