Former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said on Friday that his wife Xiomara Castro will run for the left-wing Libre Party in the 2017 presidential elections. ... More


A U.S. drone attack has killed 22 Afghan soldiers held by Taliban militants in the southern province of Helmand, while Taliban have overrun a strategic district elsewhere. ... More


A U.S. federal appeals court in New York has upheld the United Nation's claim of immunity in a lawsuit brought by Haitians seeking compensation for a cholera epidemic that killed more than 9,000 people. ... More


In the U.S. state of Louisiana, more than 100,000 people have applied for federal assistance, as cleanup begins from recent historic flooding.... More


A Honduran mother and her young son have filed a lawsuit against U.S. authorities, claiming they were mistreated in detention facilities after they entered the country seeking asylum.... More


Richard Becker, from the ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism), located in San Francisco, says that the peace accord reached between Colombia's government and the rebel Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia has foiled Washington's plans for the South American country. ... More


In Rio de Janeiro, the Olympic Games have come to an end, but a new study is out showing that climate change may affect future athletic gatherings.... More


A recent poll in the United Stats found that five percent of Americans voters would cast their ballot for Harambe, a dead gorilla, if he ran as a presidential candidate in the 2016 elections. ... More


In the United States, IFCO (the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization) and Pastors for Peace, which have been organizing friendship caravans to Cuba in opposition to the U.S. blockade since 1992, has been informed by the Internal Revenue Service, the IRS, it is being stripped of its tax-exempt status. ... More


Angel Vidal, director of the National Company of Educational Supplies and Distribution, said that books and materials are ready of the upcoming school year, which gets started on Monday, September 5th. ... More


Cuba's ambassador in Ecuador, Rafael Dausa, gave a lecture Friday at the Technical University Luis Vargas, in the province of Esmeraldas, on the current state of relations between Cuba and the United States. ... More


The U.S. airline JetBlue will make the first direct commercial flight between the United States and Cuba in more than half a century next Wednesday.... More


The short story A quién pueda interesar (To whom it may concern), by Cuban writer Marilyn Bobes, won the 15th Julio Cortázar Ibero American Award... More


Bolivia’s deputy minister of the interior who was kidnapped Thursday morning has been killed, according to the government of Bolivia in a press conference Thursday night.... More


Israeli military forces have fatally shot a Palestinian man at a military check post near the illegal Ofra settlement in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.... More


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