Baghdad, June 11 (RHC)-- An estimated 500,000 people have fled Iraq’s second-largest city following its capture by Al Qaeda militants. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant — ISIL — seized Mosul on Tuesday with a sweeping attack on the city’s airport, TV stations, government buildings, and prisons, setting over 2,000 inmates free. ... More
Brasilia, June 11 (NNN-RHC) -- Brazil's political parties launched their primaries to elect candidates for the upcoming general elections in October.... More
Portland, June 11 (RHC)-- A high school student has been killed and a teacher wounded in a school shooting in the U.S. state of Oregon that also left the gunman dead.... More
Asunción, June 11 (PL-RHC) -- More than 50,000 people were forced to leave their homes in Paraguay's capital Asunción, faced with increased floods due to the overflow of the river Paraguay.... More
Washington, June 11 (RHC)-- A top official at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency has been removed amid accusations of failing to investigate abuses and deadly shootings by agents on the Mexican border.... More
Damascus, June 11 (RHC) -- Cuban President Raul Castro sent a message of congratulations to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for his victory in the recent presidential elections.... More
Washington, June 11 (RHC)-- U.S. private prisons with over 25,000 inmates violate human rights by subjecting prisoners to systematic abuse, according to a report issued on Tuesday.... More
Washington, June 11 (RHC) -- The struggle for the release of the three members of the Cuban Five who are still serving long sentences in U.S. jails received a new impetus with a day of solidarity actions this Tuesday in Washington, DC, where activists and personalities have gathered for a week to give their support to the cause.... More
Havana, June 11 (RHC) -- The risk of getting infected by a blood transfusion in Cuba is less than one percent, a rate similar to that of developed nations, an expert said Tuesday in Havana.... More
Santiago de Cuba, June 11 (RHC) – British ambassador to Cuba Tim Cole met with local authorities in eastern Santiago de Cuba and expressed his interest in learning more about the cultural traditions of the region.... More
Tokyo, June 11 (RHC) –- Cuba’s ambassador to Japan, Marcos Rodríguez Costa, met in Tokyo on Tuesday with Deputy Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, Midori Matsushima, to assess the current state of bilateral relations in those sectors,” Prensa Latina news agency reported.... More
Over the weekend, Cuban Yuliesky Gourriel, debuted in style in the first division of Japanese professional baseball batting for his team, the Yokohama DeNA Baystars. They beat the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles by a score of 5 to one.... More
Brussels, June 10 (RHC)-- The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO, has commenced war games near Russia's border as tensions rise between the West and Moscow over Ukraine. ... More
Quito, June 10 (PL-RHC) -- Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño is in Caracas, the Venezuelan capital, for a meeting of the Political Committee of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), during which he will express interest in knowing more about the nationwide Government-opposition peace dialogue in Venezuela.... More
Kabul, June 10 (RHC)-- Five U.S. soldiers and at least one Afghan soldier have been killed in what appears to be one of the deadliest instances of friendly fire of the war in Afghanistan. The soldiers were mistakenly killed by an airstrike that was called in by U.S. troops to beat back a Taliban ambush. ... More
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