U.S presidential candidate Donald Trump has questioned why President Barack Obama didn't mention the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor during his trip this week to Japan.... More


Thousands of Puerto Ricans are demanding the release of political prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera, who has been in the empire's prisons for 35 years -- marching through the streets of San Juan on Sunday. ... More


An Argentinean court has found 15 military officials guilty for crimes committed under Plan Condor, a program launched in the 1970s designed to eliminate all opposition to right-wing dictatorships in South America. ... More


The United States has reportedly suspended the transfer of cluster bombs to Saudi Arabia amid growing concerns that the kingdom has used the weapons in its bombing campaign in Yemen. Reports say that the move follows rising criticism by members of the U.S. Congress of Washington’s support for its ally in the year-long aggression, which has killed more than 9,400 people. ... More


U.S. forces stationed on Japan’s Okinawa island will be put under a month-long curfew following the rape and murder of a Japanese woman by a former U.S. Marine. Lawrence Nicholson, the head of U.S. military forces on the island of Okinawa, said that a night-time curfew and some other regulations will come into effect for a month beginning on Monday.... More


Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says he will not hold a debate with Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, an event that would have become a potentially high-ratings television spectacle. ... More


The ranking of countries according to their GDP growth is ineffective in understanding inequality while bolstering South-South cooperation instead could better help Latin America overcome its obstacles.... More


The Israeli regime is set to demolish more homes belonging to Palestinians in the occupied West Bank despite international condemnation against the regime’s demolition campaign against Palestinian homes and properties. ... More


Cuba has called for Latin American and Caribbean vision in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, approved by the General Assembly of the United Nations.... More


The 1st Ibero-Latin American Convention on Basic Biomedical Sciences began Friday in Havana with the participation of 150 delegates from the United States, Spain and Cuba.... More


Bolivian Interior Minister Carlos Romero has described as "extraordinary" the work of Cuban doctors who treated him for Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever.... More


Officials from Cuba and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) discussed issues of common interest in the context of the Council of the institution which is meeting in Geneva until June 2nd.... More


U.S. airlines are still awaiting a response from the federal authorities to begin direct flights to Cuba, Cuban ambassador in the United States, Jose Ramon Cabañas said Thursday.... More


Air Berlin, the second largest German airline, has begun operations to Havana with two new weekly flights between Dusseldorf and Havana, according to the Cuban Ministry of Tourism (MINTUR). The new service started up this morning.... More


Cuba is currently implementing a soil improvement program the main priorities of which are to prevent erosion, acidity, alkalinity, salinity and low fertility.... More


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