As the prison-wide hunger strike at Guantánamo enters its 133rd day, a group of top U.S. doctors and public health specialists are calling on their colleagues in the military to boycott the mass force-feeding of prisoners.
Read MoreUS Diplomats and Cuba resume talks on Tuesday and Wednesday in Washington, aimed at reopening direct mail service between the two countries, reported AP.
Read MoreUS President Barack Obama chose a Washington lawyer as special envoy of the Department of State for the closure of the prison located on occupied Cuban territory at Guantanamo Bay.
Read MoreIn what is being hailed as a victory for reform and moderation inside Iran, the cleric Hassan Rouhani has won the Iranian presidential election. A former nuclear negotiator, Rouhani has called for greater engagement with Western countries, while urging respect for Iran’s right to nuclear energy.
Read MoreEcuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño reiterated today his country’s providing asylum to Julian Assange, founder of the website Wikileaks, while insisting that the British authorities grant him safe conduct to leave the United Kingdom, reported DPA news.
Read MoreA Canadian court heard a guilty plea on Friday from James McTurk, 78, a retired postal worker accused by Toronto police for child sex tourism crimes committed in Cuba. He now faces a possible life sentence.
Read MoreVeteran foreign correspondent Patrick Cockburn of The Independent joins us to discuss the Obama administration’s decision to begin directly arming Syrian rebels after concluding the regime of President Bashar al-Assad has used chemical weapons.
Read MoreAs NSA director General Keith Alexander blasts the leaks that exposed widespread surveillance of Americans, we’re joined by Chris Pyle, a former military instructor who exposed the CIA and Army’s monitoring of millions of Americans in the 1970s.
Read MoreCuracao granted residence to 40 Cubans who were in legal limbo on the Caribbean island for several years, said Café Fuerte on Wednesday. They have been in Curacao for between three and eight years, and since 2009 they began to organize, appealing to the Dutch authorities and the United Nations.
Read MoreThe High Representative for Foreign Policy of the European Union (EU), Catherine Ashton, said today that Cuba has made “positive changes” and others “not so positive” and that European Union continues to explore the possibilities of modifying its common position on the island.
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