Three hundred rabbis asked President Barack Obama today to negotiate with the Cuban authorities for the “immediate release” of Alan Gross, the US agent sentenced in Cuba to 15 years in prison for endangering the island’s security.
Read MoreTropical Storm Bertha continued on its course to the west-northwest and is expected to touch ground or very close to the southwestern part of Puerto Rico on Saturday afternoon, reports the National Hurricane Center in Miami.
Read MoreWelcome to this Week in Palestine – Gaza Special Coverage, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for July 26th, to the August 1st, 2014. This week Israeli attacks cased a Humanitarian ceasefire to collapse. The death toll in Gaza has reached over 1,493 with no end in sight to Israeli attacks on the coastal region.
Read MoreArgentina has reached the last stretch of a decisive economic and political road, facing the end of the term established for the payment of an international debt and a thorny litigation in the United States, DPA reported on Sunday.
Read MoreWelcome to this Week in Palestine – Gaza Special Coverage, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for July 19th, to the 25th, 2014.
Read MoreAn open letter authored by Yael Even Or titled “We are Israeli reservists. We refuse to serve,” announcing that more than 50 former Israeli soldiers have signed a petition declaring their refusal to be part of the Israeli military reserves.”This petition, long in the making, has a special urgency because of the brutal military operation now taking place in our name.”
Read MoreThus far 267 Palestinians killed, hundreds more injured as the Israeli military offensive targeting the Gaza Strip enters its 11th day. In the meantime all effectors to reach a ceasefire have not been successful.
Read MoreRussian President Vladimir Putin declared Thursday that the Ukraine is to be held accountable for the crash of the Malaysia Airlines plane that resulted in the death of its 295 passengers and crew, DPA reported.
Read MoreA Florida judge today slapped William Potts with 20 years in prison for hijacking a plane to Cuba in 1984. Potts had asked the court for leniency, saying he already spent 13 1/2 years in prison in Cuba for the hijacking.
Read MoreVladimir Putin, has denied widespread reports that Russia and Cuba have agreed to reopen the Lourdes spying center dating back to the Soviet period, which was closed in 2001. In a press conference held at the end of the BRICS summit in Brazil, Putin stressed that the issue of reopening the radio-electronic intelligence military base in Cuba has not been addressed.
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