A court in Canada has ruled Ecuadorean farmers and fishermen can try to seize the assets of oil giant Chevron based on a 2011 decision in an Ecuadorean court found it liable for nearly three decades of soil and water pollution near oil wells, and said it had ruined the health and livelihoods of people living in nearby areas of the Amazon rainforest.
Read MoreThe United Nations is warning Syria has become the most dangerous crisis for global peace and security since World War II. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said that the situation in Syria has “deteriorated beyond all imagination,” while António Guterres, head of the U.N. refugee agency, has described it as “the most dangerous crisis for global peace and security since the Second World War.”
Read MoreThe movie “Heli”, a controversial love story between a young girl and a young policeman set in a background of violence and drug trafficking in Mexico, won first prize for fiction at the this year’s Havana Film Festival. “I try to film what bothers me or catches my attention,” said the director Amat Escalante. “It’s the reality around me that I see, I touch ,” he added .
Read MoreWelcome to This Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for December 7 to 13, 2013.
Read MoreWe look back at the pivotal role Cuba played in ending apartheid and why Castro was one of only five world leaders invited to speak at Nelson Mandela’s memorial. Historian Piero Gleijeses argues that it was Cuba’s victory in Angola in 1988 that forced Pretoria to set Namibia free and helped break the back of apartheid South Africa.
Read MoreFew times has a US president and a Castro shaken hands, thus the greeting between Barack Obama and Raul Castro today at the Nelson Mandela funeral in Johannesburg was considered big news, despite any real indication of change in the Cold War relic relationship. Here is the CNN video of the encounter.
Read MorePresidents Raul Castro and Barack Obama are two of the 90 plus leaders expected at the funeral of Nelson Mandela on Tuesday in Johannesburg. Castro is traveling with Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla. Former US presidents Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton will also be attending.
Read MoreVenezuelans go to the polls on Sunday to vote for mayors and city council members throughout the country. The vote is the first since Nicolas Maduro won a surprisingly close victory over Henrique Capriles for the presidency back in August of this year in a special election to replace the deceased Hugo Chavez.
Read MoreA new report details how corporations are increasingly spying on nonprofit groups they regard as potential threats. The corporate watchdog organization Essential Information found a diverse groups of nonprofits have been targeted with espionage, including environmental, antiwar, public interest, consumer safety, pesticide reform, gun control, social justice, animal rights and arms control groups.
Read MoreGovernment authorities of Guatemala will receive 122 nurses from Cuba today, adding to another 24 that arrived last August to work in the Central American nation.
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