Havana, December 20 (RHC)-- In the presence of the Minister of Construction of Cuba, René Mesa Villafaña, the Italian group T.O.MA. signed a contract worth 80 million dollars for the construction of a new IBEROSTAR Hotel in Trinidad.... More
Valparaiso, December 20 (RHC)-- After a month of strikes and protests by workers in Chile's main coastal port city of Valparaiso, street protests turned violent as the country’s anti-riot police, "Carabineros," cracked down on demonstrators and raided a port union building throwing tear gas and entering the offices by force.... More
United Nations, December 20 (RHC)-- The United Nations' World Food Program (WFP) says it would cut food aid to around 190,000 impoverished Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank -- half of all its recipients there -- due to funding shortages.... More
Brasilia, December 20 (RHC)-- Brazil’s President-elect Jair Bolsonaro held his first cabinet meeting Wednesday. ... More
San Diego, December 20 (RHC)-- A Honduran mother photographed last month fleeing tear gas fired by U.S. border guards near the port of entry between Tijuana, Mexico, and San Diego, California, has applied for asylum in the United States. ... More
Washington, December 20 (RHC)-- U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered the withdrawal of all 2,000 U.S. troops in Syria, in a move that surprised many in Washington and around the world.... More
San Francisco, December 20 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of California, the Yemeni mother of a dying 2-year-old child was granted a State Department waiver from President Donald Trump’s travel ban and will see her son one last time before her boy is expected to die. ... More
Washington, December 20 (RHC)-- U.S. President Donald Trump’s charitable foundation will be dissolved under court supervision, the result of an agreement reached with New York state’s attorney general, who says the Trump family used the charity as a virtual piggy bank for self-dealing. ... More
Beijing, December 20 (RHC)-- China has opposed the "weaponization" of space by the United States, a day after President Donald Trump ordered the creation of a new command center for controlling military space operations.... More
Mexico City, December 20 (RHC)-- The United States will spend billions of dollars in Central America and Mexico, as part of a plan to officially strengthen economic growth in the region... More
Havana, December 20 (RHC)-- Deputies to the Cuban Parliament are continuing on Thursday the study of the Draft Constitution which was enriched by the popular consultation held between August 13 and November 15.... More
Pyongyang, December 20 (RHC)-- North Korea has rejected U.S. calls for it to unilaterally denuclearize, and said Washington should give up its ambition to force Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear weapons by "high-handed practices and pressure.” according to a statement by KCNA news agency.... More
Havana, December 20 (RHC)--An historic agreement signed Wednesday between the Cuban Baseball Federation and Major League Baseball (MLB) and its players’ association will allow players from the island who play in national series to sign big league contracts.... More
Havana, December 19 (RHC)-- Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel met Tuesday in Havana with the president of the Japan-Cuba Friendship Parliamentary League Keiji Furuya. ... More
Havana, December 19 (RHC)-- “The brotherhood shared by Cuba and Timor Leste is consolidated with every passing day,” the country’s ambassador in Havana, Maubere Lorosae da Silva Horta, told Granma International.... More
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