More than 100 Palestinians have been killed so far due to the ongoing Israeli military offensive targeting the Gaza Strip. Meanwhile the Palestinian leadership has asked for international intervention to end the escalating Israeli aggression against Palestinians.
Read MoreAlthough no independent environmental impact study has been made, the Chinese company HKND led consortium, announced on Monday the proposed route for a private canal to cross Nicaragua from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Read MoreRussian President Vladimir Putin will arrive in Havana on Friday as part of a Latin American tour that will culminate with his participation in the VI BRICS summit to be held in the Brazilian city of Fortaleza, reported EFE.
Read MoreThe prestigious London Globe Theatre company will present two functions in Havana on August 7th, the 450th anniversary of the birth of English writer William Shakespeare. A rendition of the classic “Hamlet” will be premiered in the Teatro Mella.
Read MoreIn a Democracy Now! exclusive, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange joins us from Ecuador’s Embassy in London. It is the first time a U.S. news program has gone inside Assange’s place of refuge where he has entered his third year in political asylum while he faces investigations in both Sweden and the United States.
Read MoreWelcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for June 28th to July 4th, 2014.
Read MoreThe Cuban government has condemned the record fine that the United States applied on the French bank BNP Paribas for conducting transactions with the island and criticized European laws for being powerless before the US embargo on Cuba, DPA reported.
Read MoreRepublican Senator Marco Rubio is looking for ways to hasten the voting process surrounding a US Senate bill aimed at applying sanctions on Venezuelan officials presumably implicated in the repression of protesters, after the measure was blocked by one of the senators in his party, DPA reported.
Read MoreChinese President Xi Jinping will travel to Cuba as part of a tour of Latin American countries in July, when he will also attend the Brics Summit (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) in Fortaleza, Brazil, scheduled for July 15.
Read MoreThousands of people marched in Brazil on Wednesday in one of the largest protests of the 2014 World Cup. Members of the Homeless Workers Movement blocked a major freeway in São Paulo to protest massive spending on the tournament and to call for more affordable housing.
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