The new U.S. Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, made his first visit to Afghanistan, where he met with the high command of the occupying army and local authorities, and repeated the old litany that his country is seeking a "responsible" solution to the war.... More
We are still immersed in the most difficult stage of a health crisis that in little more than one year has caused almost 122 million infections and 2.68 million deaths, and there are already alarming signs that show the post-pandemic world will not be any better than it was before.... More
European political and social forces have conveyed messages of support to Cuba, which faces difficult times, while right-wing regional sectors intensify their destabilizing plans.... More
The World Health Organization has highlighted that Brazil presents an alarming situation, and remains the second country in the world with the highest number of deaths due to COVID-19 and the third regarding the amount of infected people. For several weeks, this country has shown critical records, with an average death toll of 1,500 per day.... More
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, ICC, recently reported from the city of The Hague, Netherlands, the opening of an investigation into the war crimes committed by the Zionist regime of Israel against the Palestinian people.... More
Those who did everything possible to discredit and prevent Cuban medical cooperation during Donald Trump's administration, must have been surprised to hear the information provided by Dr. Jorge Delgado Bustillo, Director of Cuba's Central Unit for Medical Cooperation when he said that 25 brigades with some 2 500 Cuban collaborators are still fighting Covid-19 around the world. Dr. Jorge assured that in the last six decades, and in spite of the U.S. blockade, Cuban health professionals have assisted nearly one third of the global population. ... More
Radio Havana Cuba celebrates the 60th anniversary of its creation as an experimental shortwave radio station, on the air in 1961. Those were difficult times, and it was intended to fill the gaps in the information battle that the young Cuban Revolution was waging against a virulent campaign of slander unleashed against our country by the press responding to the U.S. imperialism. Two years earlier, Prensa Latina, another achievement of the Revolution, had been founded to this end.... More
Due to an excessive drive for profit and comfort, much of the world is failing to meet most of its commitments to protect the environment, prevent global warming and curb extreme natural phenomena, the UN recently warned.... More
Seldom has humanity been affected in such a global way by a pandemic as this one of COVID-19, which has spread to the entire planet and, at the same time, there has been a fragmented, scattered and clearly insufficient response given the significance of the challenge.... More
Over the last few weeks, Haiti has made the headlines due to the protests organized by political parties and other social sectors to demand the removal from power of President Jovenel Moïse -- who has the support of the United States and the Organization of American States, OAS.... More
World Health Organization researchers are conducting an investigation in the city of Wuhan, China, to track down the origins of the coronavirus. Thus far, they have determined that the virus came from an animal source, therefore it was not designed in or escaped from any laboratory at all.... More
Even though uncertainty, pain and death are spreading throughout the world due to the uncontrollable pandemic of COVID-19 -- with millions of infections -- someone always finds the opportunity to make juicy business out of this tragedy and others will simply consider it normal behavior of our species to maintain a selfish attitude before adversities.... More
The global economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has reached such proportions that -- for the first time since World War II -- the global public debt at the end of 2020 was the equivalent to the 98% of the Gross Domestic Product, GDP. That means that for every dollar earned in the world, 98 cents are owed and only two cents are left to meet all daily needs. Seems absurd... but true.... More
News recently broke of the death of Chilean judge Juan Guzmán Tapia, the first lawyer in that country to lead investigations and prosecute dictator Augusto Pinochet, although some judicial mechanisms failed to enforce the regulations in this case.... More
The discovery of new strains of SARS-CoV-2 poses a real concern to the entire world, since they hinder the fight against the pandemic that has already caused more than 96 million infections and two million deaths, according to the latest reports.... More
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