Britain's Home Secretary Sajid Javid (L) talks with UK Border Force staff onboard of Border Force cutter, HMC Searcher, on the Dover Strait off the coast of Dov

London, January 4 (RHC)-- Britain’s Home Office (Interior Ministry) has demanded the country’s military to deploy its vessels to the English Channel to contain a surge in refugee crossings in the waterway.... More


Brazilian president slashes minimum wage with Executive Order.  Photo:  teleSUR

Brasilia, January 4 (RHC)-- Brazil’s new far-right President Jair Bolsonaro has lowered the minimum wage.  In one of his first acts as president, he signed a decree that sets the minimum wage to 998 Brazilian reais (approximately $257) from 1,006 Brazilian reais (around $267).... More


Miami, January 4 (RHC)--  U.S. airfreight company FedEx has dropped plans to start a five-times-a-week cargo service between Miami and Varadero,  in the province of Matanzas, Cuba.... More


Jair Bolnosaro

Rio de Janeiro, January 3 (RHC)-- Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro  says he does not rule out discussing with Washington the establishment of a U.S. military base on Brazilian territory.... More


Vivian Herrera during the presentation of VUCE in the 36th International Fair of Havana (FIHAV 2018). (Photo: Marcelino Vázquez / ACN).

Havana, January 3 (RHC)-- Cuba will develop an integrated digital platform this year in order to facilitate foreign trade operations, aiming to  simplify procedures for the export and import of goods.... More


Havana, January 3 (RHC)-- Cuba's Pedro Kouri Tropical Medicine Institute (IPK) has announced that the 16th International Workshop on Dengue, Zika and other Emerging Arbo-viruses, will be held from August 12 to 23, 2019. ... More


Havana, January 3 (RHC)-- Pope Francis enjoyed a performance by Cuban circus artists during his Wednesday General Audience in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall. ... More


Havana, January 3 (RHC)-- The leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Un, sent a message to Communist Party first secretary, Raul Castro; President Miguel Diaz-Canel, and the Cuban people, on the 60th anniversary of the triumph of the Revolution.... More


Managua, January 3 (RHC)-- Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Denis Moncada has issued a open letter in Managua, addressing his Latin American counterparts and calling on them to not give in to new actions taken by the secretary general of the Organization of American States, the OAS.... More


Ramallah, January 3 (RHC)-- The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) says Israeli officials approved plans for the construction of more than 10,000 homes in the West Bank last year, despite the international outcry against the Tel Aviv regime’s land expropriation and settlement expansion policies in the occupied Palestinian territories.... More


Caracas, January 3 (RHC)-- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says that the international sanctions applied by the United States and its allies against his country have caused multi-million dollar losses in 2018 in an effort to suffocate the Venezuelan economy.... More


Mexico City, January 3 (RHC)-- Just an hour and a half after being officially sworn in on Tuesday, the new mayor of Tlaxiaco, in Mexico's southern state of Oaxaca, has been shot dead on the street.... More


Mexico City, January 3 (RHC)-- In Mexico, in the 25 years since the 1994 uprising, the National Liberation Zapatista Army has been a global reference for revolutionary movements.... More


The newly inaugurated Packard Hotel will be the venue of Gastrocul 2019.

Havana, January 3 (RHC)-- Specialists from five countries will interact in Havana, from January 8 through 10 in the Gastrocult 2019 academic program, which will be dedicated to India. ... More


Havana, January 2 (RHC)-- Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel commented on Wednesday about some of the concepts presented Tuesday by leader Raul Castro at the main event to mark the 60th anniversary of the triumph of the Revolution.... More


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