Havana, October 17 (RHC)-- Cuban civil society ratified Friday their condemnation of Washington's blockade policy against Cuba, according to the final declaration of the 12th National Forum against the US blockade held Friday.... More
Santiago de Chile, October 17 (RHC)-- The 23rd Solidarity with Cuba Conference in Chile began sessions Friday with a special tribute to anti-terrorist fighter and Hero of the Republic of Cuba Fernando González, who is participating as a special guest.... More
Beirut, October 17 (RHC-PL)-- The Cuban Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment Rodrigo Malmierca asserted Friday that his country would not depend again on just one market, not even when the US economic blockade is lifted. ... More
Guantanamo, October 17 (RHC)-- Cuban and US researchers are on a 20-day joint scientific expedition to study local wildlife and biodiversity in the eastern region of the island.... More
Havana, October 17 (RHC)-- A group of business people from the US State of Ohio are in Cuba looking for opportunities to foster bilateral trade in the event that the US economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba is lifted.... More
Havana, October 17 (RHC-PL)-- "The Bayer company is one of the foreign companies with strongest ties to the development of Cuba, where the agricultural industry is key for the economy", Omar Fernandez, secretary general of the Chamber of Commerce said Friday. ... More
Brussels, October 17 (RHC-PL)-- "The lifting of the US economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba is essential in the process of achieving a real normalization of the relations between the two countries". ... More
Moscow, October 17 (RHC)-- Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has criticized Washington’s refusal to meet a high-profile Russian delegation for talks on the crisis in Syria, and called it a “foolish behavior." Speaking in an interview with state-owned Rossiya 1 television channel on Friday, the Russian premier said that with such decisions and refusals to negotiate, the Americans were only revealing their weakness.... More
Caracas, Oct. 17 (teleSUR-RHC) Grassroots groups, aimed at boosting political mobilization in the Venezuelan state of Yaracuy, will activate their patrols supporting the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) on Sunday for a trial run of the forthcoming national parliamentary elections.... More
Milan, October 17 (RHC)-- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has called Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to express concern over violent clashes between Israel and Palestine, a US official says. Kerry, who is in Milan, Italy as part of a European tour, talked to Netanyahu on Friday to discuss "how best to end the recent wave of violence, and to offer U.S. support for efforts to restore calm as soon as possible," the State Department official said.... More
United Nations, October 17 (RHC)-- The Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations has called for the Security Council to intervene and put an end to the Israeli acts of aggression in the occupied territories.... More
Gaza City, October 17 (RHC)-- At least one Palestinian has lost his life and more than a dozen others sustained injuries after Israeli forces opened fire at a group of Palestinian protesters in the northeastern part of the blockaded Gaza Strip.... More
Kabul, October 17 (RHC)-- Doctors Without Borders says a U.S. tank has forced its way into the Afghan hospital destroyed by a U.S. airstrike, sparking concern the U.S. military may have destroyed evidence in a potential war crimes investigation. ... More
Berlin, October 17 (RHC)-- The German interior minister says his department has registered 493 attacks on refugee shelters so far this year, three times more than the assaults recorded in 2014. Thomas de Maiziere released the figure in an interview with the Funke media group, Germany's third largest newspaper and magazine publisher. De Maiziere said that the "massive rise in xenophobic attacks against asylum seekers," ranging from arson to racist graffiti, is a "disgrace for Germany."... More
New York, October 17 (RHC)-- U.S. Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump has maintained his spot atop the 2016 Republican presidential field, a new poll suggests. According to the new poll by the CBS News, the real-estate mogul leads the pack with 27 percent support, showing no changes since one month ago, when the previous edition of the survey was carried out. Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon, followed Trump with 21 percent support, down two points from the last poll.... More
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