Caracas, March 17 (RHC-AVN) -- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has proposed the establishment of a commission for "peace and mutual respect of sovereignty" between the United States and the South American country to start a dialogue to re-establish diplomatic ties.... More


Gaza, March 17 (RHC-WAFA) -- Palestinian political and popular powers and factions on Sunday called on Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas not to surrender to any pressure exerted on him during his Monday's meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama scheduled for the White House.... More


Gaza, March 17 (RHC-Xinhua) -- Israel reopened its commercial crossing with Gaza on Sunday after a three-day halt to allow fuel into the enclave, a Palestinian official said.... More


Damascus, March 17 (RHC-Xinhua) -- On Sunday, Syrian Defense Minister Fahed Jassem al-Fraij visited Yabroud city, north of the capital Damascus, hours after the military forces recaptured the town from the armed rebels, the official SANA news agency reported.... More


Tehran, March 17 (RHC-Xinhua) -- UN-Arab League joint special representative to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi arrived in the Iranian capital of Tehran on Sunday. He is there to hold talks with a number of Iranian officials on the Syrian crisis, the state IRIB TV reported.... More


New York, March 17 (RHC-UN) -- Latin America's trade with China will surpass that with Europe in the next two years, according to a United Nations study. There are also predictiions that it will eventually eclipse its trade with the United States.... More


Lima, March 17 (RHC-ANDINA) -- Peruvian President Ollanta Humala travelled to the eastern part of Lima region on the weekend to inaugurate a maternal and child health center in the rural district of San Antonio in Huarochirí province.... More


Havana, March 17, (RHC), -- Some 1 684 Cuban doctors made up the seventh medical contingent to offer services in Brazil, making it up for a total of 11 thousand 430 physicians as agreed to between Cuba and the Brazilian government as part of the program known More Doctors.... More


Havana, March 17, (RHC), -- As part of the legislative process of the Cuban Parliament, lawmakers in different territories are discussing a new foreign investment draft law prior to its submission for analysis at the upcoming session of the National Assembly.... More


Havana, March 17 (RHC) -- The Second Secretary of Cuba’s Communist Party, Jose Ramon Machado Ventura, acknowledged the efforts of sugar workers in central-eastern Ciego de Avila province in the current sugar cane campaign and called for stable production in the province and a sugar cane yield of 100, 000 tons.... More


Havana, March 17, (RHC), -- The Cuban Workers’ Confederation (CTC) called a huge March to mark May Day in support of the current update of Cuban economy aimed at making the socialist system more prosperous.... More


Young Cuban sax player, Michel Herrera, is set to premier its second and most recent album on Monday at the opening concert of the Casa de las Américas Musicology Prize Festival in Havana.... More


Moscú, 16 mar (bbc).- El jefe de la Comisión Electoral de Crimea, Mykhaylo Malayshev, afirma que 44% de los electores han depositado sus votos en el referendo para decidir si la península debe separarse de Ucrania y unirse a Rusia... More


Sport News Round Up March 15

The Terry Fox Marathon of Hope, in its 14th edition, kicks off today March 15th throughout Cuba, with the special motivation of promoting the fight against cancer through exercise.... More


Caracas, March 15 ( RHC-Agencies) -- Venezuela's top prosecutor on Friday accused the U.S. government of attempting to finance the ongoing violent actions by the right-wing opposition.... More


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