Washington, October 30 (RHC)-- The Pentagon has awarded Northrop Grumman a more than $20 billion contract to build new long-range stealth bombers capable of carrying nuclear weapons. ... More


Copenhagen, October 30 (RHC)-- Several thousand Danish protesters have marched on the parliament in the capital, Copenhagen, and other cities across the country to protest the government's decision to apply remarkable budget cuts to the education sector. ... More


London, October 30 (RHC)-- British resident Shaker Aamer has been freed from Guantánamo after more than 13 years behind bars. He was the last British resident imprisoned at the U.S. prison at Guantánamo, located on illegally occupied territory in eastern Cuba. ... More


Caracas, October 30 (RHC)-- The governments of Cuba and Venezuela presented Friday in Caracas the bilateral cooperation plan through 2030, a continuation of the comprehensive program signed 15 years ago between then Cuban President Fidel Castro and Bolivarian leader, the late Hugo Chavez.... More


Cartagena de Indias, October 30 (RHC)-- Anti-terrorist fighter and Hero of the Republic of Cuba, René González -- one of the Cuban Five -- said Thursday in Colombia that the ongoing process towards the normalization of relations between the United States and Cuba is the logical outcome of the Cuban people's firm resistance against Washington's failed hostile policy.... More


Havana, October 30 (RHC)-- The German airline Eurowings, belonging to the Lufthansa Group, will begin to operate flights to Cuba on November 2nd, sources of the Cuban Tourism Ministry said.... More


New York, October 30 (RHC)-- A new poll in the United States shows retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson has pulled ahead of business mogul Donald Trump in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. ... More


Berlin, October 30 (RHC)-- Germany’s biggest lender, Deutsche Bank, has announced that it will cut 35,000 jobs through redundancies and the sale of businesses. ... More


Washington, October 30 (RHC)-- More than five million U.S. children under 18 have at least one parent in prison and children in these situations suffer from low self esteem, poor mental and physical health, and other problems, according to a new report. ... More


Sports News Roundup October 30

Cuba’s Omara Durand smashed her own 100m T12 world record in style as she was one of three athletes on Wednesday to seal a hat-trick of titles at the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha, Qatar.... More


Mexico City, October 30 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The army unit of Iguala in the Mexican state of Guerrero have been accused working with the Guerreros Unidos (United Warriors) drug cartel that is allegedly responsible for disappearing the 43 Ayotzinapa students in complicity with local police, La Jornada reported Thursday.... More


Bogotá, October 30 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Colombia’s October 25th elections were the first since the historic meeting between Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and the head of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Timoleon Jimenez; they served as important test of support for the government's strategy of pursuing a peace deal to end the five-decade-long armed conflict.... More


Tegucigalpa, October 30 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The International Federation for Human Rights spoke up on Thursday for victims of the 2009 military coup in Honduras, calling for investigations into abuses to continue despite the case being dropped by the International Criminal Court. ... More


Rio de Janeiro, October 30 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Thousands of people gathered in Rio de Janeiro and other cities of the country in order to protest against a bill restricting women's reproductive rights. ... More


Asunción, October 30 (teleSUR-RHC)-- As farmers from all across the country arrive in the Paraguayan capital on Thursday morning, rural indigenous women are actively leading the mobilizations against the soy-export economic model, which uses agrochemicals that are destroying the lives and the crops of farmers families living nearby. ... More


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