New York, April 23 (RHC)-- New York City's Columbia University canceled in-person classes on Monday as campus protests over Tel Aviv's genocidal war on Gaza entered a sixth day. Classes were held online as the campus remains largely locked down. ... More
Los Angeles, April 23 (RHC)-- Officials at the University of Southern California, USC, have canceled all outside speakers at this year’s graduation ceremonies, including Jon Chu, the director of “Crazy Rich Asians,” and tennis legend Billie Jean King.... More
Washington, April 22 (RHC)-- The U.S. military has announced it will withdraw troops from Niger and close down a major drone base that it had built six years ago. ... More
Chattanooga, April 22 (RHC)-- In the U.S., Volkswagen employees at a Chattanooga, Tennessee, factory have overwhelmingly voted to join the United Auto Workers union. The plant will become the first foreign-owned car factory in the South to unionize. ... More
United Nations, April 22 (RHC)-- Israel has not presented credible evidence to support its claims that UNRWA staff were members of so-called “terrorist” groups, an independent review for the United Nations led by a former French foreign minister has concluded.... More
Rafah, April 22 (RHC)-- The official death toll in Gaza has now topped 34,000, including more than 14,000 children -- as the barbaric and genocidali Israel war machine grinds on.... More
Tel Aviv, April 22 (RHC)-- Israel’s chief of military intelligence, Major General Aharon Haliva, has resigned. Haliva is the first senior Israeli official to resign over Hamas’s October 7th attack on Israel. ... More
With a mixture of joy and calm at seeing their relatives back home, Cubans reacted -- regretting the presence of relatives in Haiti, where a wave of violence made staying there risky.... More
Six months after electing Daniel Noboa as the new president of Ecuador, in early elections, Ecuadorians returned to the polls in a referendum and popular consultation on security, justice, employment and international arbitration for investments and commercial matters, questioned by various sectors of society and in the midst of a difficult situation.... More
The United States House of Representatives approved with unusual speed a bulky military aid bill for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, which was held up for almost a year in the twists and turns of legislative negotiations between Democrats and Republicans.... More
Havana, April 22 (RHC)-- Cuba will begin today the 63rd National Bivalent Oral Antipolio Vaccination Campaign to keep this disease eliminated in the country, the Ministry of Public Health (Minsap) reported on its X social network account.... More
Havana, April 22 (RHC)-- The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez, remembered today through his account in X, the martyrs of revolutionary diplomacy Adriana Corcho and Efrén Monteagudo, victims of terrorism 48 years ago.... More
Bogota, April 22 RHC-- Tens of thousands of Colombians have taken to the streets in several cities to protest against President Gustavo Petro’s social reform agenda. About 70,000 people demonstrated in Bogota on Sunday, according to estimates provided by the city government. Large rallies also took place in other cities across the country in opposition to Petro’s proposed economic and social reforms.... More
Tehran, April 22 (RHC)-- Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman has strongly condemned the massacre and mass burial of civilians in the besieged Gaza Strip by Israeli forces as a clear examples of genocide and war crimes.... More
Santa Clara, April 22 (PL)-- Outfielder Mailon Tomás was the hero in Villa Clara's baseball victory against Santiago de Cuba 5-3, as the RBI hitter and saving pitcher in a Sunday challenge in this central city of Cuba.... More
