Havana, January 11 (RHC) Cuban president Raul Castro met on Friday with visiting Japanese minister Keiji Furuya, who heads the Japan-Cuba Friendship Parliamentary League. ... More
Havana, January 10 (RHC) The triumph of the Revolution has been the most significant event for the Cuban people over the past 55 years, said first vice-president Miguel Diaz-Canel as he recalled the victorious entrance in Havana, in 1959, of the Rebel Army headed by Fidel Castro. ... More
Brussels, January 10 (RHC)-- A draft investigative report presented to the European Parliament legislative committee charged with investigating the scope and scale of surveillance by the U.S. National Security Agency and the British GCHQ states that the activities of the controversial spy agencies were "illegal" and have "profoundly shaken" the trust between nations on both sides of the Atlantic. ... More
Havana, January 10 (RHC)-- A tremor was felt Thursday afternoon in the provinces of Havana and Matanzas, while a similar phenomenon was registered in Central Villa Clara. No human or material damage was reported. ... More
Havana, January 10 (RHC)-- Cuba has reiterated that the U.S. government must abolish the 1966 Cuban Adjustment Act as a first step to reach a legal, safe and orderly migratory flow between the two countries.... More
Ramallah, January 10 (RHC)-- Israeli forces have destroyed an entire village of Palestinian Bedouins in the Jordan Valley region of the occupied West Bank, Press TV reports. ... More
Damascus, January 9 (RHC)-- The United Nations has begun moving Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile out of the country as part of the disarmament program agreed to last year. ... More
Baghdad, January 9 (RHC)-- Nearly 100 people were killed in Iraq amid clashes between government forces and al-Qaeda-linked militants for control of two major cities. ... More
Havana, January 9 (RHC)-- The historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, attended the inauguration of an Art Studio in a Havana neighborhood that has been revived and is now a flourishing cultural area, with restored and painted homes, paved streets and their boulevards filled with flowers. ... More
New York, January 9 (RHC)-- The Inter-religious Foundation for Community Organization, IFCO -- the parent organization of Pastors for Peace -- is reporting that it is under attack by the U.S. government tax-collection agency, the Internal Revenue Service. ... More
Tehran, January 8 (RHC)-- Iran has warned against imposition of new sanctions, saying fresh U.S. sanctions against the Islamic Republic will destroy the Geneva nuclear talks and the ensuing deal. Iran Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Marzieh Afkham, said: “Approval of any new sanctions will be tantamount to terminating the ongoing talks.” ... More
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