Tehran, Mar 3, (RHC), – An Iranian parliamentary team has embarked on a six-day trip to Cuba and Venezuela despite attempts by the US to disrupt the visits by denying its airspace to the Russian plane carrying the lawmakers, Press TV news channel reported.... More
Kingston, March 2 (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
Havana, March 2, (RHC) Fernando Gonzalez, one of the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters imprisoned in 1998 in the United States, and who was the second of them to return home on Friday, thanked the Cuban youths for their permanent support of their cause, during a music concert launched Saturday evening at the stairs of the University of Havana.... More
Havana, March 2, (RHC) The traditional humidor auction that closed the 16 Habano Cigar Festival in Havana collected over 1.1 dollars, which were dedicated to the Cuban health system. One of the humidors auctioned and dedicated to the Romeo and Juliet cigar brand, appears on the picture ... More
The semi-weight Julio Cesar La Cruz sealed today the 3-2 credit with which Cuba's Los Domadores edged out Azerbaijan's Baku Fires to access 27 points and hold comfortably on top of Group B of the World Boxing Series.... More
Caracas, March 1 (RHC) -- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro opened another session of a National Conference for Peace on Friday, seeking to put an end to the country's weeks-long violence. At the meeting, Maduro proposed turning the event into a "permanent" forum.... More
Beijing, March 1 (RHC)-- China has released a report on human rights in the United States, slamming the country for its overseas drone attacks, state-sponsored spying and gun crime.... More
Caracas, March 1 (RHC) -– Meanwhile, the death toll from almost three weeks of violence in Venezuela has risen to 17. Venezuelan Attorney General Luisa Ortega said on Friday that the death toll from the street violence organized by fascist opposition groups has injured more than 260 others. ... More
Baghdad, March 1 (RHC)-- In Iraq, at least 42 people were killed when a motorcycle rigged with explosives blew up near a secondhand market in Sadr City, Baghdad. At least 51 people were injured. ... More
London, March 1 (RHC)-- In the latest disclosure based on the leaks of Edward Snowden, The Guardian reports Britain’s spy agency GCHQ intercepted millions of people’s Yahoo webcam chats and stored still images of them. ... More
Quito, March 1 (RHC) -- Ecuador has rejected as "biased" an annual U.S. human rights report which accuses the government of President Rafael Correa of stifling freedom of expression.... More
Ramallah, March 1 (RHC)-- Israeli forces opened fire and killed a Palestinian man in the West Bank after he had barricaded himself inside his house to avoid arrest. ... More
Havana, March 1 (RHC) -– The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the South American country's largest guerrilla group, announced on Friday that three new members have joined their delegation to the ongoing peace talks with the government in Havana.... More
Port-au-Prince, March 1 (RHC)-- In Haiti, some 2,000 people marched in Port-au-Prince to mark the 10th anniversary of the U.S.-backed coup that ousted Haiti’s first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. ... More
Denver, March 1 (RHC)-- Solitary Watch is reporting eight to nine prisoners held at a supermax prison in the U.S. city of Florence, Colorado are on hunger strike and are being force-fed. ... More
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