Five years after the ethnic civil war in Sri Lanka was won by the Sinhalese government, with thousands of Tamil civilians killed in the final weeks, the UN Human Rights Council authorized its High Commissioner to investigate if human rights abuse occurred. Cuba was in the minority opposing the investigation.
Read MoreFollowing declarations by Nicolas Maduro alleging that three Air Force generals had attempted to stage a coup the Venezuelan Armed Forces declared on Wednesday that they remain strongly united, DPA reported.
Read MoreThe mayor of the Venezuelan city of San Cristobal, Daniel Ceballos, was dismissed from his post and sentenced to a year in prison after a summary trial on charges of disobeying a direct order to contain anti-government protests.
Read MoreThe Guantánamo detainees accepted by Uruguay “are not dangerous,” the nation’s Interior Minister, Eduardo Bonomi, told reporters in Montevideo on Monday (March 24), referring to the five Syrians and one Palestinian that President José Mujica agreed to take in as refugees.
Read MoreThe president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, reported today before a mission of foreign ministers of the Union of South American Nations (Unsaur) that his government had foiled a coup plot, with the arrest last night of three air force generals.
Read MoreThe Venezuelan government put in practice today a new currency exchange rate that represents significant de-facto devaluation; the largest in history, analysts told dpa news. The rate was pegged at 51.86 Bolivars to the US dollar.
Read MoreThe Venezuelan government dismissed on March 21 its ambassador to Cuba, a key post in the country of the Maduro government’s chief ally, at a time of political turmoil at home.
Read MoreUruguayan President Jose Mujica revealed on Friday that, in exchange for granting shelter to detainees from the US Navy base, he asked the Obama administration to release three Cuban intelligence agents (Part of the Cuban Five) who have been in US prisons since their arrest in 1998.
Read MorePalestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas meet this week US President Barak Obama, with no progress made on the peace talks, meanwhile Israeli attacks targeting Palestinians left one youth killed this week.
Read MoreI recently had access to horrifying testimonies about the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki offered by a group hibakushas (“survivors”). Though I had read dozens of articles and news pieces on these incidents, I had never come across such harrowing accounts.
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