United Nations General Secretary Ban Ki-moon received Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs Bruno Rodriguez in New York on Saturday while the island’s head diplomat was attending the annual debate of the General Assembly of the international organization.
Read MoreDirecting their message at President Chavez, opposition crowds chanted “you’ve got one week left” and “you can smell and feel Capriles as president.” The event was the closing in Caracas of the campaign of opposition candidate Henrique Capriles. Chavez will close his campaign on Thursday. (72 photos)
Read MoreThe Palestinian leadership submits an application of a non-member state to the United Nations, meanwhile, Israeli military abduct around 20 Palestinians in the West Bank, these stories and more, read on
Read MoreDemocracy Now speaks with the legendary poet, author and activist, Alice Walker, who has also been a longtime advocate for the rights of Palestinians.
Read MoreSpeaking via videolink from the Ecuadorean embassy in London, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange addressed a side meeting of the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday evening.
Read MoreThousands of people surrounded the Spanish Parliament in Madrid on Tuesday to protest austerity measures and the loss of public confidence in elected leaders. The “Occupy Congress” protest came as the conservative administration of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy prepares to unveil further austerity measures on Thursday.
Read MoreAt a time of heated and divisive debate over immigration, the new feature-length documentary, “Harvest of Empire,” examines the direct connection between the long history of U.S. intervention in Latin America and the immigration crisis we face today.
Read MoreSometimes he’s dressed up like a woman, others times he’s placed naked with blacks eager to “sodomize” him. They dress him in butterfly wings or feature him half-naked and stunted under the legs of a muscular and almighty Chavez.
Read MoreThree members of the Russian band Pussy Riot have spent the last six months in prison for staging a protest against Russian leader Vladimir Putin inside an Orthodox cathedral. On Friday, the group was awarded the Lennon Ono Grant for Peace award by the artist and activist Yoko Ono.
Read MoreBolivian President Evo Morales arrived in Havana on Sunday for an unannounced meeting with Cuban leader Raul Castro. Morales is in route to New York for the UN General Assembly Session on Sept. 24-25.
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