Havana, January 18 (RHC)-- Students and professors of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, California, are here in Cuba, touring educational, cultural and scientific institutions.... More


Washington, January 18 (RHC)-- The United States government has announced the release of Oscar Lopez Rivera, who has been imprisoned for more than 35 years for his struggle to free Puerto Rico from U.S. colonial rule.... More


Washington, January 18 (RHC)-- U.S. President Barack Obama has commuted the sentence of Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning as part of more than 200 presidential commutations issued Tuesday. ... More


Gao, January 18 (RHC)-- A car bomb explosion has killed dozens of people and injured many others in a military camp in northern Mali. ... More


Rome, January 18 (RHC)-- The death toll from the January 14 capsizing of a refugee ship in the Mediterranean stands at four, with some 180 missing, presumed dead, survivors have said. ... More


Damascus, January 18 (RHC)-- The United States is increasing airdrops of weapons, ammunition and other equipment to foreign-backed militant forces in the northeastern Syrian city of Raqqah, according to a report.... More


UN Commissioner Rupert Colville

Manama, January 18 (RHC)-- The United Nations has expressed distress at the execution of three Shia Muslim activists in Bahrain over their alleged role in killing policemen during a pro-democracy demonstration.... More


Athens, January 18 (RHC)-- Several members of a far-right Greek party headed by a prominent MP have raided a primary school in Athens to prevent the staff from admitting refugee children in classrooms.... More


Berlin, January 18 (RHC)-- A German court ruled against banning the country's far-right National Democratic Party, the NPD, although the group has frequently been called anti-constitutional.... More


Rome, January 18 (RHC)-- A court in Rome has handed down life sentences to eight former military officers from Bolivia, Chile, Peru and Uruguay ... More


Washington, January 18 (RHC)-- U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will begin his term in office on Friday with an approval rating of just 40 percent, the lowest of any recent president, according to a new poll.... More


Havana, January 17 (RHC)-- The governments of Cuba and the United States have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, providing for law enforcement cooperation in areas related to both countries' national security. ... More


Havana, January 17 (RHC)-- On January 12th and 13th, the United States fined a U.S. non-profit organization and a Canadian bank for alleged violations of regulations under Washington's nearly six decades-old blockade of Cuba. ... More


Havana, January 17 (RHC/ACN)-- The ground shook in the eastern part of the island early Tuesday morning in what some described as a very strong tremor. ... More


Havana, January 17 (RHC/Seatrade Cruise News)-- In what is being described as a Cuba-U.S. cruise industry first, an Italian-based global logistics giant has been cleared by the U.S. government for the transporting of U.S. agricultural products to Cuba to supply cruise operations here. ... More


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