Washington, May 17 (RHC)-- Less than a quarter of voters in the United States say congressional incumbents deserve reelection, according to a Gallup poll released earlier this week. The poll found only 22 percent of voters say most members of Congress deserve reelection. The latest results are up slightly from the 17 percent Gallup measured in January.... More
Havana, May 17 (RHC), -- Cuba and New Zealand agreed to strengthen bilateral cooperation relations during the visit to Havana on Friday by Murray Stuart McCully, Foreign Trade and Investment minister of that country.... More
Havana, May 17 (RHC), -- Cuban vice-president, Salvador Valdes Mesa, met in Havana with Saleh Rafat, Defense and Security Chief of the Organization for the Liberation of Palestine, PLO, and vice-secretary general of the Palestinian Democratic Union.... More
Havana, May 17 (RHC), -- Cuban Health minister, Roberto Morales, is in Geneva to preside over the 67th World Health Assembly to take place May 19-24 at the Palace of Nations.... 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 peace process as a guarantor to the talks.... More
Havana, May 16 (Xinhua-RHC), -- The Cuban Baseball Federation (FCB) has disclaimed any liability associated with the case of baseball outfielder, Alfredo Despaigne, who reportedly used a fake Dominican passport to travel to Mexico and register for the Mexican Baseball League (LMB).... More
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
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
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