The daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro, sexologist Mariela Castro Espín, has obtained permission to travel to Philadelphia to participate in a forum on equality for lesbians and receive an award for her efforts in favor of transsexuals in Cuba, announced the event’s organizers on Tuesday.
Read MoreThe best-selling Chilean novelist Isabel Allende is out with a new book, “Maya’s Notebook: A Novel.” It tells the story of a teenager named Maya Vidal and her struggles with drug addiction, grief and history. Although fiction, the story is rooted in real-life tragedy.
Read MoreThe U.S. military has acknowledged for the first time the number of prisoners on hunger strike at the military prison has topped 100. About a fifth of the hunger strikers are now being force-fed. Lawyers for the prisoners say more than 130 men are taking part in the hunger strike, which began in February.
Read MoreWelcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for April 20th to the 26th 2013.
Read MoreVenezuelan President Nicolas Maduro traveled to Havana on Friday evening to be at the opening of a joint commission that will ratify “the strategic alliance” between Cuba and Venezuela, reported dpa news.
Read MoreThe Obama administration denied today any involvement in an alleged attempt to destabilize Venezuela denounced by the government in Caracas and said it is seeking consular access to a US citizen arrested in the South American country this week for plotting against the government of Nicolas Maduro.
Read MoreIn a broadcast exclusive, we air excerpts from a new documentary that examines the struggle Muhammad Ali faced in his conversion to Islam, his refusal to fight in Vietnam, and the years of exile that followed before his eventual return to the ring. Ali is considered the greatest boxer in the history of sports.
Read MoreVenezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles said Thursday that he will not participate in an audit of the April 14 presidential elections because he did not receive sufficient guarantees of transparency from the National Electoral Council (CNE). Instead, he announced that he will contest the elections that gave a narrow victory to President Nicolas Maduro.
Read MoreSpeaking at the first-ever public congressional hearing on Obama’s secret drone and targeted killing program, journalist Farea al-Muslimi offered a rare first-hand account of the suffering that drone warfare wreaks on ordinary people’s lives.
Read MoreThe following is an extensive analysis and on-the-scene account by the Center for Democracy in the Americs of the recent Venezuelan elections that gave Nicolas Maduro a slight victory over challenger Henrique Capriles and the lingering controversy in the aftermath.
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