Ukraine is in a state of crisis two days after the country’s democratically elected president was ousted following months of street protests that left at least 82 people dead. On Saturday, Ukraine’s Parliament voted to remove President Viktor Yanukovych, a move Yanukovych described as a coup.
Read MorePopular Panamanian recording artist and politician Ruben Blades has had an exchange of words with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on the situation facing this South American country. Here is the latest, Blades’ response to Maduro, and below, Maduro’s remarks to Blades in a video.
Read MoreWe bring you part two of our interview with Isidro Estrada, a Cuban who has spent the last 15 years living in China. He gives us insight on the country often looked on as a model by the Cuban government, trying to kick-start a stagnated economy while at the same time maintain power.
Read MoreWelcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for February 15th to the 21st, 2014. As deadlock in the peace talks between Palestinians and Israelis continues, Israeli attacks targeting Palestinians this week leave 12 injured civilians.
Read MoreIn Venezuela, at least six people have died in recent days during a series of anti-government protests. The latest casualty was a local beauty queen died of a gunshot wound. The protests come less than a year after the death of Hugo Chávez and present the biggest challenge to Venezuela’s new president Nicolás Maduro.
Read MoreVenezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, said today that opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez, who surrendered Tuesday to authorities after being blamed for the recent violence in the country, will be held in a imprisoned outside Caracas, claiming it is to “save” his life.
Read MoreFour journalists who revealed the National Security Agency’s vast web of spying have been awarded the 2013 George Polk Awards in Journalism. Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, Ewen MacAskill of The Guardian and Barton Gellman of the Washington Post were among the winners announced on Sunday.
Read MoreAs the country marks Presidents’ Day, we turn to an aspect of U.S. history that is often missed: the complicity of American presidents with slavery. “More than one-in-four U.S. presidents were involved in human trafficking and slavery. These presidents bought, sold and bred enslaved people for profit.
Read MoreThe North Korean cargo ship “Chong Chon Gang”, released after paying a fine of $693,333 to the Panama Canal Authority, sailed today at 13:30 GMT from Colon City, in the Panamanian Caribbean, bound for Cuba.
Read MoreThe Palestinian leadership retreated is rejection to recognize Israeli as a Jewish state, meanwhile the Israeli army boarded the Gaza Strip this week killing a Palestinian civilian. These stories and more, coming up.
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