Beirut, February 27 (RHC)-- The Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah has confirmed that Israel targeted one of its bases in a recent airstrike, vowing to retaliate against the attack. Hezbollah on Wednesday condemned the act of violence, saying it would respond to the Israeli airstrike near the village of Janta, which hit a base on the Lebanon-Syria border on February 24th.... More
Buenos Aires, February 27 (RHC)-– Argentina praised some of the “positive and favorable comments” by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Bank regarding the country’s social and economic agenda, regretting that certain media downplay such news, Mercopress News reported on Thursday.... More
Nassau, February 27 (RHC) -- Bahamanian authorities said Wednesday they had rescued a group of 170 Haitian and two Dominican migrants after their boat capsized in territorial waters.... More
Washington, February 27 (RHC)-- Noam Chomsky, a prominent U.S. linguist and political scientist, says Washington’s constant threat of war against Iran is a violation of the United Nations Charter. ... More
Brasilia, February 27 (RHC) -- Brazil may regain its self-sufficiency in oil production in 2015, Brazilian oil giant Petrobras CEO, Maria das Gracas Foster, said on Wednesday.... More
Washington, February 27 (RHC)-- The Barack Obama administration is increasing pressure on Afghan President Hamid Karzai to sign a deal to keep U.S. troops in Afghanistan beyond this year. ... More
United Nations, February 27 (RHC)-- A senior expert at the United Nations says Israel’s policies in the occupied West Bank and besieged Gaza Strip appear to amount to “apartheid.” Richard Falk, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, made the remarks in a searing 22-page report to the world body’s Human Rights Council.... More
Kabul, February 27 (RHC)-- According to the latest tally from the Associated Press, 2,174 members of the U.S. military have died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion. ... More
Paris, February 27 (RHC)-- Lawmakers in France have voted to indefinitely extend the country’s military intervention in Central African Republic. Troops from France and the African Union have so far been unable to staunch sectarian bloodshed between Muslim rebels and Christian vigilantes. ... More
Lagos, February 27 (RHC)-- In Nigeria, officials say 59 students died in an attack by Islamist militants on a boarding school in the northeast. ... More
Havana, February 27 (RHC)-- The historic stairs of the University of Havana, scenario of student demonstrations in support of revolutionary causes, will be the scene on Saturday evening of a music concert dedicated to the Cuban Five.... More
Ciego de Avila, February 27 (RHC)-- Former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva visited the central-eastern Cuban province of Ciego de Avila as part of efforts to strengthen collaboration with the island in the agricultural sector. ... More
Porto Alegre, February 27 (RHC)-- The work of Cuban doctors in Brazil and their impact on the medical sector and the population was the focus of a report published by the Zero Hora daily of Brazilian state of Porto Alegre.... More
Havana, February 27 (RHC)-- Namibian Prime Minister Hage Gottfried Geingob said in Havana that his country will always be grateful to Cuba for its support during the independence struggle.... More
Pretoria, February 27 (RHC)-- A group of 23 Cuban doctors arrived in the South African province of Eastern Cape as part of the bilateral medical cooperation agreement between the two countries.... More
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