Moscow, March 4 (RHC)-- Russian President Vladimir Putin has denounced Ukrainian opposition’s power grab as a coup, noting that Victor Yanukovych remains legal president of Ukraine. Speaking to media in a news conference at his residence outside the capital Moscow, the Russian president censured recent developments in neighboring Ukraine as unconstitutional and a coup.... More
Caracas, March 4 (RHC) -- Venezuela's Ombudswoman, Gabriela Ramirez, said that she has not received any report of cases of torture during violent incidents in the country.... More
Geneva, March 4 (RHC)-- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has criticized the threats of “sanctions and boycotts” against the country over its alleged role in Ukraine’s ongoing crisis. ... More
Islamabad, March 4 (RHC)-- Pakistani officials say gunmen have opened fire on a NATO supply convoy in the country’s northwest. Local administration officials said the convoy of four vehicles came under fire on Tuesday in the tribal Jamrud region, located 40 kilometers northwest of the city of Peshawar.... More
Kabul, March 4 (RHC)-- In news from Afghanistan, a radio station owner who airs ads paid for by U.S. forces says those same forces raided his station, beat him and threatened to kill him last week, before releasing him the next day without charge. ... More
Bogotá, March 4 (RHC) -- Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos is presenting his formal application to register for the country's upcoming presidential elections next May 25th, which will allow him to officially launch his candidacy and campaign for re-election.... More
Kabul, March 4 (RHC)-- Afghan President Hamid Karzai says the United States and its Western allies launched the war in Afghanistan for their own interests. “Afghans died in a war that’s not ours,” Karzai said in an interview with the Washington Post. He said that the 12-year-old war was “for U.S. security and for Western interests.”... More
Sao Paulo, March 4 (RHC) -- Amid carnival celebrations in Brazil, several groups of protesters belonging to the Landless Peasants Movement (MST) occupied 17 estates in the southeastern province of Sao Paulo.... More
London, March 4 (RHC)-- A former Guantánamo Bay prisoner who spent three years in U.S. custody without charge or trial has been ordered to remain in detention in Britain following his arrest on terrorism charges related to the conflict in Syria. ... More
Islamabad, March 4 (RHC)-- In Pakistan, the latest attack on a polio vaccination team killed at least 13 people in the country’s northwest. ... More
Gaza City, March 4 (RHC)-- Israel is facing condemnation over the killing of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. Over the weekend, Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian woman in the Gaza strip. ... More
Washington, March 4 (RHC)-- The leader of the U.S. Baptist Alliance Carol Blythe urged U.S. President Barack Obama to release the three Cuban prisoners who are still serving unfair prison sentences for having monitored U.S.-based terrorist organizations. ... More
Havana, March 4 (RHC)-- Cuban and foreign medical students in the central-eastern province of Ciego de Avila produced a multimedia work to pay homage to Bolivarian leader Hugo Chavez on the first anniversary of his death. ... More
Mayabeque, March 4 (RHC)-- In an effort to boost preventive actions against the outbreak of diseases with the upcoming rainy season in May, community organizations and the Health Ministry will implement an island-wide campaign to educate people in the application of sanitation and hygienic measures. ... More
Havana, March 4 (RHC)-- Cuban doctors in East Timor are drawing up a comprehensive strategy to fight cancer based on records of the disease collected by the medical brigade in that country and with the contribution of human resources trained in Cuba.... More
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