Havana, December 28 (RHC-Granma)-- The defense of national identity, patriotism and anti-imperialism will be the fundamental issues that delegates will debate at the Ninth Congress of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR), which begins its initial phase on February 3rd.... More


Havana, December 28 (RHC)-- The traditional military ceremony at the San Carlos de la Cabaña fortress in Havana will take place on December 31st at midnight to salute the 59th anniversary of the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. ... More


Havana, December 28 (RHC)-- The National Ballet of Cuba will celebrate the 59th anniversary of the triumph of the Revolution with the ballet Don Quixote, one of the main classics of both the universal repertoire and the dance company.... More


Havana, December 28 (RHC)-- The slate committees of the National Assembly of People's Power, the Cuban parliament, are preparing the way for the second stage of next year's elections.... More


Permanent Representative of Cuba to the United Nations, Anayansi Rodríguez (File Photo)

Havana, December 28 (RHC-Granma)-- The Permanent Representative of Cuba to the United Nations, Anayansi Rodríguez, said that the island has the support of the international community in its just demand that the U.S. blockade be lifted, and thanked those countries who have expressed their condemnation of Washington's policy.... More


Department of Homeland Security (Photo: Democracy Now)

New York, December 28 (RHC)-- A new investigation reveals that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is increasingly going global, with thousands of ICE agents and TSA officials deployed to more than 70 countries around the world. ... More


Afghan bombing kills 40 (Photo: Democracy Now)

Kabul, December 28 (RHC)-- In Afghanistan, at least 40 people have been killed and dozens more wounded in a suicide bomb attack in the capital Kabul. ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack, which targeted a Shia cultural center and the Afghan Voice news agency. ... More


Honduran opposition rally (AFP Photo)

Tegucigalpa, December 28 (RHC)-- In Honduras, the opposition party, the Alliance Against the Dictatorship, has filed an appeal with election officials demanding incumbent President Juan Orlando Hernández’s re-election be annulled because of fraud in the November 26 election. ... More


Moscow, December 28 (RHC-Agencies) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin said a bomb blast in a St Petersburg supermarket on Wednesday was an act of terrorism.... More


A man walks past a destroyed house at the site of air strikes in Sanaa, Yemen December 26, 2017. (Reuters)

Geneva (RHC-Agencies)-- A Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen has killed 109 civilians in air strikes in the past 10 days, including 54 at a crowded market and 14 members of one family in a farm, the top U.N. official in the country said on Thursday.... More


Buenos Aires, December 28 (RHC)--The Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, the Argentine human rights organization searching for kidnapped babies during the 1970s dictatorship, announced Wednesday that they have found the 127th grandchild.... More


Seattle, December 27 (RHC)-- A U.S. federal judge has partially lifted President Donald Trump’s latest travel ban, after the ACLU and the Jewish Family Service argued the ban causes irreparable harm and prevents people from Muslim-majority countries from reuniting with family members living in the United States. ... More


Haitian Community Protests (Photo: International Action Center)

New York, December 27 (RHC)-- The New York Times reports that U.S. President Trump made derogatory and false claims about a number of different immigrant groups during an Oval Office meeting in June. ... More


Havana, December 27 (RHC/Juventud Rebelde)-- Cuba and Russia are planning the installation, commissioning and joint exploitation on the island of two earth stations devoted to spacial observation. ... More


Inaugural day of the Greek Orthodox Church in Havana on January 25, 2004 (File Photo)

Athens, December 27 (RHC-Minrex)-- Representatives of the Ecumenical Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Archbishop Athenagoras, praised Cuba as an example of religious freedom, during a meeting held at the Club of Athens, with the presence of numerous Greek businessmen and political figures, and attended by the Ambassador of Cuba, Zelmys María Domínguez Cortina.... More


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