Havana, March 27 (ACN) -- With an almost perfect performance of 6.5 points in seven rounds, Cuban Carlos Daniel Albornoz won the Easter blitz chess tournament in Tajamar, Spain.... More
Havana, March 27 (ACN) - Cuba will seek to improve its position in the world ranking (RM) for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in the Saquarema Beach Volleyball World Pro Tour Challenge, to be held from Thursday until Sunday in that Brazilian city. ... More
Analysts say UK court ruling opens way for Julian Assange to be extradited to the United States soon
London, March 27 (RHC)-- A UK court on Tuesday ruled that Julian Assange should have the chance to appeal an order to extradite him to the United States. The High Court in London said that the WikiLeaks founder must have the right to challenge the British government’s June 2022 extradition order, unless the United States provides within three weeks "assurances" that he would receive a fair trial and would not face the death penalty.... More
United Nations, March 27 (RHC)-- Dozens of diplomats have thrown their weight behind the UN Special Rapporteur, who said there are “reasonable grounds” to believe that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.... More
New York, March 27 (RHC)-- A New York Times report has confirmed that its report claiming that Hamas resistance fighters have sexually assaulted Israeli women was false. One of the key witnesses who was interviewed by the author of the report, Jeffrey Gettleman, regarding Hamas’s sexual violence of women, “falsely claimed to have seen evidence that two females suffered sexual violence at Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7th.”... More
Ramallah, March 26 (RHC)-- Pro-Palestine social media users are mobilizing to boycott the popular fundraising platform GoFundMe, accusing it of discriminatory practices against fundraisers for Gaza and putting the lives of Palestinians at risk by withholding funds from “genocide escape” campaigns.... More
Brasilia, March 26 (RHC)-- A magistrate of the Supreme Federal Court (STF) of Brazil, Alexandre de Moraes, gave this Tuesday 48 hours for the former president of that country, Jair Bolsonaro, to explain his stay at the Hungarian Embassy in Brasilia.... More
Matanzas, March 26 (RHC) -- Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel today toured the Jovellanos municipality in this western province to maintain direct contact with the people, and in dialogue with producers, workers and peasants.... More
Geneva, March 26 (RHC)-- The UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women and Girls, Reem al-Salem, has expressed her deep concern about the increasing cases of rape committed by Israeli soldiers against Palestinian women at the al-Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip.... More
Geneva, March 26 (RHC)-- A UN rights expert says there are reasonable grounds to determine that Israel has committed acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing in its onslaught on Gaza. Francesca Albanese, the UN Human Rights Council special rapporteur, presented her report to the council on Tuesday. The report, titled “Anatomy of a Genocide,” was leaked to the public on Monday by a pro-Israeli group.... More
Caracas, March 26 (RHC)-- Venezuelan authorities have detained three individuals in Caracas as they attempted to sabotage popular mobilizations in support of President Nicolas Maduro's candidacy registration for the presidential elections on July 28th.... More
Sanaa, March 26 (RHC)-- U.S. occupation forces have carried out a series of airstrikes against targets in eastern Syria, near the border with Iraq. American warplanes carried out 10 simultaneous strikes on residential neighborhoods and military installations in Dayr al-Zawr province, including the cities of Dayr al-Zawr, al-Mayadin and Al-Bukamal, on Tuesday morning, according to reports.... More
Havana, March 26 (RHC) - Cuba's men's volleyball team, the only team on the island with options to qualify for Paris-2024, will play two friendly matches against Argentina in view of the Nations League (VNL), the last qualifying round for the Olympic qualification.... More
London, March 26 (RHC)-- A British court ruled Tuesday that Julian Assange can’t be extradited to the United States on espionage charges unless U.S. authorities guarantee he won’t get the death penalty, giving the WikiLeaks founder a partial victory in his long legal battle over the site’s publication of classified American documents.... More
London, March 26 (RHC)-- The London High Court will rule on Tuesday whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will be able to appeal the UK’s extradition to the US, in what could be his last legal challenge in British courts.... More
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