Angola prisoner Herman Wallace is dying of liver cancer after 42 years in solitary confinement. A member of the so-called Angola Three, Wallace and two others were in jail for armed robbery, then accused in 1972 of murdering a prison guard at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, known as Angola prison.
Read MoreCuba sent off its second group of doctors to work in Brazil in the controversial new health program of the government of Dilma Rousseff. The group is part of the 4,000 Cuban doctors recruited to work in the poorest areas of Brazil in the “More Doctors” program.
Read MoreVenezuelan President Nicolas Maduro called on Sunday for actions to be taken against the country’s independent media for reporting of mass shortages of consumer goods. He warned that continuing the “economic war” against the people would bring on a new stage in the country’s revolution.
Read MoreJulian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, criticized on Thursday the ongoing half-century US blockade against Cuba during a video conference held in Havana and London.
Read MoreAn Ecuadorean court has ordered the oil giant Chevron to pay $19 billion to indigenous and rural Ecuadoreans for the dumping of as much as 18.5 billion gallons of highly toxic waste sludge into the rainforest. But Chevron has refused, winning a partial victory last week when an international arbitration panel based in the Hague
Read MoreOne killed and dozens wounded this week in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, meanwhile, the Palestinian Authority voices concern about the ongoing settlement activities in Jerusalem, these stories and more, coming up.
Read MoreThe United States government said today that after an “extraordinary effort,” it granted last night the authorization of the plane carrying Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to fly over a portion of its airspace, despite claiming that Caracas failing to meet the requirements for this type of permit.
Read MoreThe president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, arrives in Havana on Friday for a working visit, reported the Cuban government media. During his stay, the Ecuadorian president will hold official talks with Cuban President Raul Castro .
Read MoreVenezuelan President Nicolas Maduro reported today that the US government denied him permission to fly over the airspace of Puerto Rico in his flight tomorrow to China, where he will carry out an official visit. The prohibition from Washington brings renewed tension to the rocky relationship between the two governments.
Read MoreThirty-three years ago to the day, the United States narrowly missed a nuclear holocaust on its soil. The so-called “Damascus Accident” involved a Titan II intercontinental ballistic missile mishap at a launch complex outside Damascus, Arkansas.
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