La Paz, March 6 (RHC) -– The Bolivian government says 70 people have died, most of them in car accidents, during carnival festivities in the Andean country. Interior Minister Carlos Romero said on Wednesday that police reported 70 deaths, including 37 in traffic accidents.... More


Washington, March 6 (RHC)-- The oil giant Chevron has won a major victory in a lawsuit it brought against victims of its pollution in Ecuador. A group of indigenous plaintiffs won a landmark $9 billion judgment in 2011 for widespread contamination resulting from toxic dumping by Texaco, which Chevron later bought. ... More


Bogotá, March 6 (RHC) -– Five people were killed Wednesday by an armed group that invaded a farm in northern Colombia, the public defenders office said in a statement.... More


Houston, March 6 (RHC)-- A U.S. appeals court has rejected the oil giant BP’s attempt to limit payouts stemming from its 2010 oil spill in the Gulf.... More


Washington, March 6 (RHC)-- The CIA has launched an investigation of its own employees over a dispute with a u.s. Senate panel probing the agency’s torture and rendition program. ... More


Gaza City, March 6 (RHC)-- Israel is facing condemnation over the killing of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. Over the past several days, Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian woman in the Gaza strip. ... More


Los Angeles, March 6 (RHC)-- U.S. border agents are facing new scrutiny for killing migrants, with 21 civilian deaths reported since 2010. ... More


Havana, March 6 (RHC) -– Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez reiterated his country's position against recent unrest stirred up by right-wing forces in Venezuela and Ukraine. ... More


Havana, March 6 (RHC)-- Cuba's Council of Ministers has approved a number of measures that will lead to monetary unification, as was established by the guidelines of the political, economic and social policies approved at the 6th Congress of Cuba's Communist Party. ... More


Havana, March 6 (RHC)-- Cuban President Raul Castro has returned to Havana after rendering tribute in Venezuela to Bolivarian leader Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias on the first anniversary of his death. ... More


Havana, March 6 (RHC)-- With the 9th Congress of the Federation of Cuban Women, the FMC, just around the corner -- to be held on March 7th and 8th -- the organization issued a postal stamp, which represents the role played by women in society. ... More


Islamabad, March 6 (RHC) -– Some 295 young students from Pakistan received their degrees in Medical Sciences in the first graduation of Pakistani doctors in Cuba, the Pakistan Observer reported on Thursday.... More


Havana, March 6 (RHC) -– Breaking a record in visitor numbers for the month and growing a hefty 9.3 percent from January 2013, 320,032 tourists visited Cuba in January this year, the National Statistics Office (ONE) reported.... More


Sport News Ruund Up March 5th

Industriales decimated the hopes of Artemisa to give it an almost fatal blow to its aspirations for the playoffs at the 53rd Cuban Baseball Championship, after winning the game by 6-5 in extra innings.... More


Caracas, March 5 (RHC) -– Tens of thousands of Venezuelans participated Wednesday in commemorations to mark one year since the death of Bolivarian leader Hugo Chavez Frías.... More


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