Havana, January 30 (RHC-Granma)-- Following two days of work, the Regional Congress of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) concluded Monday in Havana.... More


Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos (Photo: Reuters)

Bogota, January 30 (RHC)-- Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has announced that the fifth cycle of talks with the National Liberation Army... More


Palestinian protesters demonstrate in Gaza City on January 29, 2018 against the US move to freeze funding for a UN agency rendering aid to refugees (Photo: AFP)

Gaza City, January 30 (RHC)-- Thousands of the United Nations employees have staged a mass strike in the besieged Gaza Strip over Washington's plans to cut annual aid to a relief agency that renders aid to Palestinian refugees. ... More


Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (Photo: Press TV)

Tehran, January 30 (RHC)-- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says U.S. President Donald Trump is resorting to "fake evidence" to spread Iranophobia. ... More


Empty beds are seen in the Gaza strip’s Beit Hanoun Hospital, as it suspended it services due to the lack of fuel (Photo: Beit Hanoun Hospital)

Gaza City, January 30 (RHC)-- A hospital in the besieged Gaza Strip has halted its services after it ran out of fuel for its electric generators, the health ministry says, as a dire power shortage continues to worsen the humanitarian situation in the Palestinian enclave. ... More


 FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe resigns (File photo)

Washington, January 30 (RHC)-- In the United States, another shakeup at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the FBI, has claimed the agency’s second-highest official. ... More


Roger Torrent, Speaker of Catalonia's regional Parliament, chairs a meeting at parliament in Barcelona, Spain, January 30, 2018. (Reuters)

Madrid, January 30 (RHC-Agencies)-- Catalonia on Tuesday postponed the election of a new regional president until further notice after Spain’s highest court said the sole nominee, separatist leader Carles Puigdemont, was ineligible while he remains a fugitive from justice in Belgium.... More


Image of the National Police Headquarters, in the northern Pacific province of Esmeraldas (Internet Photo)

Havana, January 30 (RHC) Cuba´s Foreign Ministry has condemned the terrorist attack perpetrated last Saturday in Esmeraldas, Ecuador and expressed its solidarity with the government and the people of the South American nation.... More


Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (Reuters-File Photo)

Mexico City, January 30 (RHC)--Leftist contender Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is leading the race to win Mexico’s July presidential election with the support of 32 percent of the voters, a survey by polling firm Buendia & Laredo showed on Monday.... More


Havana, January 29 (RHC)-- The plenary meeting of the National Council of the Confederation of Cuban Workers (CTC), concluded over the weekend with a call to hold the 21st national labor congress, set for January 2019.... More


Demonstrations across Honduras to protest inauguration of Juan Orlando Hernandez (Photo: AP)

Tegucigalpa, January 29 (RHC)-- In Honduras, U.S.-backed President Juan Orlando Hernández was inaugurated for a second term over the weekend amid massive protests denouncing widespread alleged voter fraud in the November 26th election. ... More


Suicide attack kills more than 100 in Kabul (Photo: AFP)

Kabul, January 29 (RHC)-- Afghanistan has declared a national day of mourning after more than 100 people were killed in a suicide attack in the capital Kabul over the weekend. ... More


Jose Arturo Sierra, a retired lawyer and judge, was murdered by unknown assailants while travelling in his car through Guatemala City (Photo: AP)

Guatemala City, January 29 (RHC)-- Jose Arturo Sierra, the 72-year-old former president of Guatemala's Supreme Court, has been assassinated in the country's capital city. ... More


Bolivian President Evo Morales announces decision to revise his 13-point goal to include the middle class groups (Photo: Twitter @evoespueblo)

La Paz, January 29 (RHC)-- Bolivian President Evo Morales will be revising the Patriotic Agenda for 2020-2025, the country's long-term national goals, to address the needs of the growing middle-class sectors in Bolivia. ... More


 Honduran Police Chief Jose David Aguilar Moran (Photo: AP)

Tegucigalpa, January 29 (RHC)-- In news from Honduras, an explosive new investigation by the Associated Press says Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández’s new National Police chief personally helped facilitate a massive cocaine delivery to a drug cartel boss in 2013. ... More


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