Washington, January 18 (RHC)-- U.S. President Barack Obama says the United States will not apologize for the National Security Agency’s controversial spying programs at home and abroad, but promises modest changes. During a major policy speech on Friday, Obama ordered changes to U.S. intelligence-gathering practices, but the changes fall short of the drastic cutbacks demanded by privacy activists.... More
Caracas, January 18 (RHC)-– Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says he plans to pay an official visit to Iran in the near future to strengthen mutual relations and discuss avenues for further improving cooperation.... More
Cairo, January 18 (RHC)-- Five people have been killed and several others wounded after Egyptian police used excessive force against anti-government protesters in the capital, Cairo, and the city of Alexandria.... More
Brasilia, January 18 (RHC)-- Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff Friday said federal funds should be distributed to all states, irrespective of their political affiliations.... More
Kabul, January 18 (RHC)-- An Afghan fact-finding mission has found that a recent U.S. airstrike has killed at least 13 civilians in the country’s northeastern province of Parwan. A member of a fact-finding mission said on Friday that 13 civilians, most of them women and children, were killed in the U.S. airstrike in Parwan Province on Wednesday. Initial reports had put the death toll at eight.... More
Kabul, January 18 (RHC)-- The death toll from a bombing and shooting attack at a Lebanese restaurant in central Kabul has reached 21. The Lebanese restaurant in Kabul's central district of Wazir Akbar Khan came under attack on Friday. A bomber blew up his explosives near the entrance of the restaurant and then two gunmen stormed in to spray diners with bullets.... More
Brussels, January 18 (RHC)-- A first round of negotiations for a Multiparty Trade Agreement between the European Union (EU) and Ecuador concluded successfully on Friday in Brussels, said officials with the European Commission (EC).... More
Havana, January 18 (RHC)-- Cuban First Vice President Miguel Díaz-Canel has welcomed the Deputy Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China, Chen Changzhi, who is paying an official visit to the Caribbean island.... More
Tegucigalpa, January 18 (RHC)-– Honduran lawmakers have passed legislation that allows the government to shoot down planes suspected of trafficking illegal drugs through the impoverished country. ... More
Gaza City, January 18 (RHC)-- Three Palestinian youths have been injured by Israeli soldiers who fired live rounds and tear gas at protesters near the border fence in the Gaza Strip. ... More
London, January 18 (RHC)-- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange sharply criticized U.S. President Barack Obama’s proposed surveillance reforms Friday, calling them “small” and saying it is “embarrassing for a head of state to go on like that for 45 minutes and say almost nothing.”... More
Columbus, January 18 (RHC)-- In the United States, the family of an Ohio man whose “agonizing” execution took nearly 25 minutes is to sue the state, saying the way he was executed was in violation of his constitutional rights.... More
Moscow, January 18 (RHC)-- Russia has criticized the European Union for portraying itself as a human rights champion while facing serious problems concerning violation of rights. The Russian Foreign Ministry published a report this week, evaluating the human rights situation in EU member states in 2013.... More
Quito, January 18 (RHC)-- A second group of Ecuadorian soldiers arrived in Santiago de Cuba on Thursday to join the support mission set up by the army of that Andean country to help relief efforts in that eastern city, devastated by Hurricane Sandy in 2012.... More
Havana, January 18 (RHC)-– Cuba continues to make progress in the leasing of State-owned land to small farmers, who since 2008 have received over a million hectares of what was previously idle land. One of the main reforms promoted by President Raúl Castro to promote domestic food production and help cut the huge imported food bill that conditions Cuban international reserves.... More
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