Washington, July 15 (RHC)—Four Democratic congresswomen targeted by US President Donald Trump in a series of tweets on Sunday say his remarks are an example of "racism" and argued that the comments are "stoking white nationalism."... More
Havana, July 15 (RHC)-- Residents of Santa Clara are celebrating the 330th anniversary of that Cuban central city this Monday, July 15th.... More
Havana, July 15 (RHC)-- The 28th contingent of the "Juan Rius Rivera" solidarity Brigade hailing from Puerto Rico is starting Monday its official activities.... More
Havana, July 15 (RHC)-- The first train using new equipment from China pulled out of Havana on Saturday, hauling excited passengers on the start of a 915km journey to the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba.... More
Caracas, July 15 (RHC)-- Venezuelan Minister of Communications Jorge Rodriguez reports that two security guards of the self-declared interim president, Juan Guaido have been captured for trying to sell weapons stolen from the National Guard in the run up to Guaido’s failed coup d'état attempt of the government April 30th.... More
Brasilia, July 15 (RHC)-- Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro announced he will appoint his son, 35-year-old Eduardo Bolsonaro, ambassador to the United States. Speaking to reporters Saturday, Bolsonaro Jr. said the decision is still being discussed between his father and the foreign minister, Ernesto Araujo, however: “If it is a mission given by the president, I would accept.”... More
Madrid, July 15 (RHC)-- By the year 2060, the United States will become the second most numerous Spanish-speaking country after Mexico, according to a study released by the Cervantes Institute in Madrid, Spain.... More
Caracas, July 14 (RHC)-- Thousands of people took to the streets of the Venezuelan capital of Caracas to protest against a recent United Nations report on the country’s human rights situation. The mass rally, held in defense of the government of President Nicolas Maduro on Saturday, came after the UN high commissioner of human rights, Michelle Bachelet, published a report on the state of human rights in the Latin American country.... More
Tehran, July 14 (RHC)-- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says the United States has failed on every path it has taken against Iran. President Rouhani told a large crowd of people in the northeastern city of Shirvan, in North Khorasan Province, on Sunday that whatever Washington had tried against Iran -- including “the harshest of sanctions” -- had wound up in failure.... More
Havana, July 13 (RHC)-- Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel delivered the closing remarks to the 3rd ordinary session of the National Parliament, which passed three laws this Saturday, and elected the National Electoral Council, among other items on its agenda, after an intense week of work for lawmakers.... More
Caracas, July 14 (RHC)-- Venezuela’s Vice President of Planning Ricardo Menendez says the government rejects the report presented by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet because it omits several major successes by the Nicolas Maduro administration and fails to mention the simultaneous economic war being thrust upon the country by the United States administration.... More
Washington, July 14 (RHC)-- Hundreds of thousands of protesters gathered for rallies and vigils in different parts of the United States, Mexico, Australia and Costa Rica to demand U.S. President Donald Trump close the immigrant detention centers.... More
New York, July 14 (RHC)-- In New York City, serial child sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein asked a federal judge to release him on bail while he awaits trial on sex trafficking charges. Epstein, who has been held at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Lower Manhattan since his arrest last Saturday, July 6, offered to put up his $77 million New York City mansion and private jet as collateral. The multi-billionaire also offered to pay for security guards in his home and to pay for electronic monitoring. ... More
Tehran, July 14 (RHC)-- “The UK government must immediately adopt required measures to end the illegal seizure of the Iranian oil tanker,” said Zarif in a phone conversation with his British counterpart Jeremy Hunt on Saturday. The top Iranian diplomat said that Britain was supposed to continue to defy extra-territorial sanctions imposed by the United States on Iran as a matter of conformity with other members of European Union.... More
McAllen, July 14 (RHC)-- U.S. Vice President Mike Pence has visited two foul-smelling and over-crowded detention centers in the state of Texas near the US-Mexico border where migrants were being kept in dire conditions.... More
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