Tehran, March 13 (RHC)-- Cuba and Venezuela participated as extra regional guest countries in the 1st Meeting of Parliamentary Leaders of of the Friends of Syria Countries, held earlier this week in the Iranian capital, Cuban diplomatic sources reported. ... More


Havana, March 13 (RHC)-- Foreign diplomats accredited in Cuba signed the condolence book created on the passing of Cuban Heroine Melba Hernández. ... More


Santiago, March 13 (RHC) -- South American foreign ministers have decided to dispatch a commission to Venezuela to oversee the political dialog toward peace in the country. ... More


Geneva, March 13 (RHC)-- The United Nations says the number of civilian casualties from U.S. drone strikes in Afghanistan has tripled in the past year. UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-terrorism Ben Emmerson warned on Wednesday that civilian deaths resulting from U.S. drone attacks are intensifying in Afghanistan.... More


Caracas, March 13 (RHC) -- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday announced a ban on violent anti-government demonstrations which have roiled the capital Caracas for a month.... More


Cairo, March 13 (RHC)-- Egypt has demolished 1,370 underground tunnels between the country and the besieged Gaza Strip, according to the Egyptian military. Army spokesmen did not say when the tunnels were demolished. ... More


La Paz, March 13 (RHC) -- United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will attend an upcoming summit of the Group of 77 developing countries plus China (G-77 + China) in Santa Cruz, Bolivia in June, Bolivian President Evo Morales announced Wednesday. ... More


London, March 13 (RHC)-- Britain’s Scotland Yard police have been accused of covering up "institutionalized sexism" in a bid to block claims by women deceived into relationships with undercover officers. ... More


Santiago de Chile, March 13 (RHC) – Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet will travel to Argentina in April for what will be her first official visit since being re-elected, Foreign Minister Heraldo Muñoz confirmed on Wednesday. ... More


Madison, March 13 (RHC)-- Revelations by the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden on the massive U.S. surveillance programs show that Washington still has the Cold War-era mentality, a political analyst says.... More


Six Dead in Colombian Plane Crash

Bogotá, March 13 (RHC) -– At least six people have been killed in an ambulance aircraft crash in the central Colombian province of Meta. Authorities say that the aircraft crashed around 6:30 a.m. local time (1130 GMT) Wednesday near Vanguardia airport in Villavicencio, leaving no survivors. ... More


Washington, March 13 (RHC)-- A hunger-striking Guantánamo prisoner has filed the first-ever legal challenge to force-feeding at the prison in U.S. federal courts. Emad Hassan is said to have been force-fed over 5,000 times since his first hunger strike in 2005. ... More


New Orleans, March 13 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Louisiana, a prisoner has been freed after 30 years on death row. Glenn Ford walked out of the Angola penitentiary on Tuesday after a judge vacated his murder conviction and death sentence. ... More


Seattle, March 13 (RHC)-- At least 750 prisoners at a Washington state immigration jail have launched a hunger strike. The strikers at the Northwest Detention Center are protesting the Barack Obama administration’s record deportations as well as poor conditions that include wages of just one dollar a day for prison labor. ... More


Literature, cuisine, music, films, visual arts and theater will top the agenda of the French Culture Festival -Francofonia 2014-, set for the Cuban capital from March 15 through 23, with the eastern city of Santiago of Cuba as a sub-venue.... More


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