Havana, May 17 (RHC), -- Miguel Barreto, Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean for the World Food Program (WFP), expressed on Thursday his satisfaction with the development of cooperation projects carried out in Cuba.... More
Havana, May 17 (RHC) With the aim of fine-tuning plans to mitigate the impact of natural phenomena and other disasters, Cubans are involved in the nationwide exercise Meteoro 2014.... More
Havana, May 17 (RHC) Cuba welcomed the most recent partial agreement reached this week between Colombia’s Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) and the government of Juan Manuel Santos on the issue of illegal drugs and crops and expressed its willingness to keep contributing to the pace process as a guarantor to the talks. ... More
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Alfredo Despaigne, Cuban player of Piratas de Campeche baseball team, has been indefinitely suspended amid doubts about the authenticity of his Dominican passport because of the avalanche of information from national and international media, the Mexican Baseball League reported. ... More
Havana, May 16 (RHC) – The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels have declared a unilateral cease-fire from May 20th to May 28th, a period including the May 25th presidential election, as the guerrillas and the government continue peace talks in Havana on Friday.... More
Brussels, May 16 (RHC)-- Members of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have not yet decided to meet Ukraine's demand for intelligence and equipment aid, the Western military alliance says. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said at a security conference in Slovakia on Thursday that such issues should be discussed with member states on a bilateral basis.... More
Guatemala City, May 16 (PL-RHC) -- The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) is discussing methods for resolving the problem of drug trafficking, recognizing that the struggle against it, led by the United States -- the world's largest drug consumer -- has failed.... More
Tel Aviv, May 16 (RHC)-- Israeli forces killed two young Palestinians in a Nakba Day protest near the West Bank city of Ramallah. The two protesters, Musaab Nuwarah, 20 years of age, and Mohammed Udeh, who was 17, were shot and fatally wounded on Thursday. Medical officials said they later died in a hospital in Ramallah.... More
Bogotá, May 16 (PL-RHC) -- Colombian Vice President Angelino Garzon said that “the country has lived in an atmosphere of pain for decades due to armed conflict and the path to reconciliation is difficult, but it can be achieved.”... More
Paris, May 16 (RHC)-- Thousands of civil servants in France have held a one-day strike over pay and working conditions. The demonstrators marched in several cities on Thursday to protest against the government’s planned spending cuts.... More
Jeddah, May 16 (RHC)-- The U.S. secretary of defense has called on the Persian Gulf Arab states to close ranks against the Islamic Republic. Chuck Hagel, who was addressing defense ministers from the [Persian] Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in Jeddah, claimed that Iran poses a “threat” to the region.... More
Berlin, May 16 (RHC)-- A major German university has approved a proposal to give U.S. surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden an honorary doctorate. Members of the philosophy faculty of Germany’s Rostock University have voted to grant Snowden the title in recognition of the “outstanding academic achievement” he made by exposing surveillance practices in the digital age. ... More
Havana, May 16 (RHC) – Honduran Foreign Minister Mireya Agüero held talks yesterday with Cuban Vice President Ulises Rosales del Toro and Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez, aimed at advancing the normalization of diplomatic relations.... More
Washington, May 16 (RHC) -- The U.S. Undersecretary of State for Latin America, Roberta Jacobson, has met in Washington with the Director for North America of the Cuban Foreign Ministry, Josefina Vidal.... More
Havana, May 16 (RHC) – The film ‘Justice in London’ which covers the wide range of events held in London during the International Commission of Inquiry into the case of the Cuban Five in March 2014, has been made available, the Voices for the Five group announced.... More
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