The 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.
Read MoreVenezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced the removal of Planning Minister Jorge Giordani, who was the main driver of economic controls imposed a decade ago by the late President Hugo Chavez.
Read MoreCuban President Raul Castro arrived in Bolivia on Friday to attend a two-day Summit of the G-77+China nations that begins Saturday in the city of Santa Cruz.
Read MoreWelcome to this Week in Palestine for June 7th to the 13th, 2014.This week Israeli attacks left two Palestinians killed, meanwhile the Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas says he is willing to resume peace talks with Israel.
Read MoreIraq is on the brink of disintegration as Sunni militants seize more towns and now set their sights on the capital Baghdad. See more.
Read MoreI think that encouraging this type of debate within what I call “Cuba’s unconventional dissident community” (the new Left and anarchist groups) can be an interesting experience, because Podemos is giving the traditional Left a number of lessons, not only in Europe and Spain, but also at the international level.
Read MoreOne year after revealing the vast network of US government surveillance being conducted by the National Security Agency at home and around the globe, Edward Snowden, residing in exile in Russia, wrote a letter to supporters of the American Civil Liberties Union.
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