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
Caracas, March 3 (RHC) -– Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elias Jaua will meet on Tuesday with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to discuss the current crisis in Venezuela, instigated by violent opposition sectors in a bid to overthrow the socialist government of President Nicolas Maduro.... More
Moscow, March 3 (RHC)-- Russia's Federal Border Guard Service reported that Moscow is concerned about a “humanitarian catastrophe” in Ukraine as new figures show that an estimated 675,000 Ukrainian citizens have arrived in Russia in January and February this year.... More
Geneva, March 3 (RHC) -- A demonstration in support of Venezuela and the government of President Nicolas Maduro will take place Wednesday in front of the Place des Nations in the Swiss city of Geneva. ... More
Washington, March 3 (RHC)-- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says Russia could be ousted from the Group of Eight (G-8) over its deployment of troops in the restive Ukrainian region, warning that Moscow will suffer a loss of trade and investment if it does not retreat. ... More
La Paz, March 3 (RHC) -- Four people were killed and 60 more injured when a footbridge collapsed during the opening of the Carnival of Oruro on Saturday. According to an official report on Sunday, three of the four killed were musicians and the other one was a female fan.... More
Tripoli, March 3 (RHC)-- Dozens of protesters have stormed Libya's interim parliament building in Tripoli, with some of them rampaging through the building. According to witnesses, the demonstrators entered the General National Congress (GNC) on Sunday and called for its dissolution, AFP reported.... More
Bogota, March 3 (RHC) -- The military leader of the criminal gang Los Urabeños, Heriberto Zafra (aka Diego Montoya), was arrested in the northern Colombian department of Santander, in a rural area of Lebrija.... More
Washington, March 3 (RHC)-- The co-founder of CODEPINK, a peace and social justice movement, says hundreds of anti-war protesters called for peace with Iran outside the venue of the annual policy conference of American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in Washington, DC.... More
Tel Aviv, March 3 (RHC)-- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he will maintain a tough line against heavy international pressure to make concessions to Palestinians. The Israeli prime minister made the remarks on Sunday shortly before heading to Washington for a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama.... More
Havana, March 3 (RHC)-- Cuban President Raul Castro insisted in the need to critically and constructively analyze the ongoing process aimed at updating the country’s economic model, which must involve the active participation of all officials and leaders from the base to the top government levels. ... More
Washington, March 3 (RHC)-- Nearly 400 opponents of the Keystone XL oil pipeline were arrested Sunday in front of the White House, marking what could be the largest youth sit-in on the environment in a generation.... More
Havana, March 3 (RHC)-- The traditional humidor auction that closed the 16th Habano Cigar Festival in Havana collected more than 798,000 Euros -- some one million, 100,000 dollars, which were dedicated to the Cuban health system. ... More
Havana, March 3 (RHC)-- Fernando Gonzalez, one of the five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters imprisoned in 1998 in the United States and who was the second of them to return home on Friday, thanked Cuban young people for their support of their cause. Fernando spoke to a huge crowd at a music concert Saturday evening on the stairs of the University of Havana.... More
Kingston, March 3 (RHC)-- Jamaica will host the Second Higher Education Conference of the Caribbean, a forum that will focus on pending needs to improve the sector in the region, according to local media.... More
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