Tehran, May 12 (RHC) – A political commenter says the United States is providing arms to the “terrorist organizations” that attempt to fuel the political unrest gripping Venezuela.... More


Washington, May 12 (RHC)-- The Nigerian government has faced criticism for a delayed response to the girls’ kidnapping. Both the U.S. and British governments are now accusing President Goodluck Jonathan of being slow to accept their offers of assistance. ... More


Mexico City, May 12 (RHC) – Mexico's rural police force is recruiting members of self-defence vigilante groups that have been established to fight local drug cartels in the western state of Michoacan.... More


United Nations, May 12 (RHC)-- A United Nations official has urged organizations and companies around the world to boycott products from Israel’s illegal settlements.... More


La Paz, May 12 (RHC-NNN) -- A group of Costa Rican business leaders want Bolivia to ship $500,000 worth of natural gas annually to the Central American country, Bolivian President Evo Morales said.... More


Sanaa, May 12 (RHC)-- The U.S. State Department says U.S. operatives in Yemen have killed two people in a failed kidnap attempt. A Special Operations commander and a CIA officer were apparently getting haircuts in the capital Sanaa last month when two armed militants tried to take them into captivity. It is unclear what the American operatives were doing in Yemen, but they’ve since left the country. ... More


Caracas, May 12 (RHC-ITAR-TASS) -- Venezuela “does not recognize and will not recognize as legal a government that emerged as a result of a state coup,” the Bolivarian Republic’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement over the weekend.... More


Quito, May 12 (RHC)-- A major Washington D.C. law firm has dropped out of a lawsuit against the oil giant Chevron for pollution in Ecuador’s Amazon rain forest. ... More


Bloomington, May 12 (RHC) -- The Association of Illinois Corn Growers wants U.S. President Barack Obama to expand trade opportunities between Washington and Havana.... More


Canberra, May 12 (RHC) -- An exhibition of paintings by Cuban anti-terrorist Antonio Guerrero opened last Saturday in Sydney, as part of a new solidarity initiative of the Australian Association of Friendship with Cuba.... More


London, May 12 (RHC) – Cuban Botanist Luis Torres has won a Whitley Award for building a national movement to protect Cuba’s amazing plant life.... More


Mango Harvest Begins in Camagüey

Havana, May 12 (RHC) – Camagüey's mango harvest will begin during the second half of May. Some production centers, however, have already started the so-called trimming process to help the industry reach the 6,000 tons of fruit this year.... More


Ya son cerca de 500 los casos detectados en A. Saudita. No hay un tratamiento antiviral efectivo.

Ryad, 11 may (BBC).- Arabia Saudita lanzó este domingo su advertencia más severa hasta ahora sobre el posible vínculo entre los camellos y un virus que ha causado más de cien muertes en el país árabe.... More


Sport News Roundup May 10

Cuban female pole vaulter Yarisley Silva had a modest day and finished 2nd in the first leg of the Athletics Diamond League, held in Doha, Dakar, won by Greek athlete Nikoleta Kyriakopoulou.... More


Sport News Roundup May 9

Alfonso Urquiola was appointed as director of the Cuban baseball team, which is formed with local college athletes whose age does not exceed 25 years, for the bilateral top against the United States scheduled for July 23rd to 27th in Cuban territory. ... More


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