New York, November 20 (RHC-USNewswire) -– Cuba Travel Services, a leading authorized carrier service provider with offices in California and Florida, will now be offering direct flights from New York's JFK Airport to Havana, Cuba. ... More


Cuban Delegation Visits Japan

Tokyo, November 20 (RHC-PL) -- Representatives of the Public Health and Foreign Trade Ministries of Cuba just concluded a working visit to Japan, invited by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).... More


Wuzhen, November 20 (RHC-PL) -- Cuba denounced today aggressions using information and communications technologies, and called to create mechanisms to protect, confront and mitigate its consequences.... More


Ramallah, November 20 (RHC)-- The Israeli government has resumed destroying the homes of Palestinians accused of involvement in recent attacks on Israelis. On Wednesday, Israeli forces demolished a home in occupied East Jerusalem belonging to the extended family of a driver who killed a three-month-old baby girl and a woman from Ecuador last month when he rammed his vehicle into a crowd of people in Jerusalem.... More


Sports News Roundup Nov. 20

At the 22nd Central American and Caribbean Games in the Mexican port city of Veracruz, Mexico's delegation has won 22 gold medals, with Cuban athletes taking 11 gold medals so far.... More


Havana, November 20 (RHC)-- The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) has agreed to release an army general captured by its Western command over the weekend, a move that may lead to a resumption of peace talks and defuse a crisis that threatened to extend five decades of war.... More


Damascus, November 20 (RHC)-- The United States has carried out new airstrikes on the Syrian border with Turkey. A Pentagon statement claims the attack killed two militants from the Nusra Front, in the fourth such strike on the al-Qaeda group since September. ... More


St. Louis, November 20 (RHC)-- Protests continue in Ferguson, Missouri, ahead of the grand jury’s decision on whether to indict Officer Darren Wilson for the killing of Michael Brown. On Wednesday, demonstrators braved sub-zero temperatures to rally outside the Ferguson Police Department. ... More


Caracas, November 20 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s executive powers granted to him by decree 12 months ago by the country’s National Assembly expired Wednesday, a day after he signed 28 new laws to improve the nation’s economy and benefit the working class. He was provided the discretionary authority to approve urgent and crucial structural reforms.... More


New York, November 20 (RHC)-- A leading U.S. nursing group has come out in support of a Navy medical officer at Guantánamo Bay who this year became the first known prison official to refuse to force-feed hunger-striking detainees. ... More


Mexico City, November 20 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Tens of thousands of Mexicans are expected to join three marches to demand justice for the 43 missing Ayotzinapa students in the capital’s main square.... More


Freetown, November 20 (RHC-AP) -— The spread of Ebola remains "intense" in most of Sierra Leone, even as things have improved somewhat in the two other countries hardest hit, the World Health Organization says.... More


Santiago, November 20 (teleSUR-RHC)-- A Chilean court has ordered the government to pay $7.5 million to 30 former political prisoners who were imprisoned and tortured under the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in the 1970's.... More


London, November 20 (RHC)-- A recent report shows there are around 90,000 homeless children in Britain, the equivalent of three in every school. The report, published by housing and homelessness charity group Shelter, was complied in accordance with analysis of the latest government figures on homelessness in the UK. ... More


Tegucigalpa, November 20 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Honduras is the world’s most violent country with an average rate of 91 people violently murdered for every 100,000 inhabitants. In this dangerous environment, women are the most vulnerable, based on official figures and women rights groups. And in fact, Honduras has an actual rate of one women violently killed every 14 hours.... More


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