A book released by the NGO CooperAccion titled, "Water Governance in Mining Areas of Peru," shows how farmers have increasingly seen their access to water recourses reduced due to mining activities.... More


A Haitian woman who gave birth with the help of Venezuelan doctors named her newborn little girl ‘Venezuela,’ to thank them for the support they are giving the country after Hurricane Matthew devastated the island. ... More


This morning's edition of the daily newspaper Granma carries a special section entitled "Normalization is Not Synonymous with Blockade." ... More


Nations around the world are already lining up to express their support for a Cuban resolution at the United Nations General Assembly next week to end the U.S. blockade against Cuba. ... More


Cuba will seek to attract foreign investment with a new business portfolio to be unveiled at the International Trade Fair of Havana (FIHAV 2016) scheduled for October 31st to November 4th. ... More


Barbados' Health Minister John Boyce

Barbados' Health Minister John Boyce is on a visit to Cuba, to promote relations and meet with his local counterpart, the Cuban Foreign Ministry’s website has announced. ... More


Former Right-wing Brazilian Congressman Eduardo Cunha

Brazilian federal police arrested Eduardo Cunha, the controversial former head of the lower house of Congress and chief architect behind the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, at his apartment in Brasilia Wednesday. ... More


Russian President Vladimir Putin in Berlin

Russian President Vladimir Putin says Moscow is prepared to extend a humanitarian ceasefire in Syria’s Aleppo. ... More


Venezuelan right-wing councilman José Vicente García has been apprehended by the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service and caught with grenades and military uniforms in his car in the state of Tachira. ... More


Honduras' Prominent Rural Leader Jose Angel Flores

Honduras' prominent rural leader and head of the Unified Campesinos Movement of the Aguan Valley, or MUCA, Jose Angel Flores was assassinated in Tocoa, in the northern department of Colon. ... More


Palestinian UN Ambassador Riyad Mansour

The Palestinian UN ambassador has called for a harsh UN Security Council resolution against Israel’s illegal settlement activities.... More


Brazilians have become more dissatisfied with the way President Michel Temer is running their country, a new poll says, as his policy of fiscal discipline continues to generate more public discontent. ... More


Tobias Ellwood, British Minister for the Middle East

The British minister for the Middle East says the early October attack by Saudi forces on a funeral in Yemen was a “deliberate error.” ... More


In Paris, a court has rejected a bid to stop the French government from demolishing the refugee camp in Calais known as "The Jungle." ... More


Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and wife Rosario Murillo have 64.2 percent support among voters ahead of the general election on November 6, according to a poll published Tuesday. ... More


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