Facebook secretly paid hundreds of contractors to transcribe audio clips shared by users in private messages. The practice rattled the contract workers, who were often subjected to vulgar and intrusive recordings and were not told whose conversations they were transcribing or why.
Read MoreFormer political prisoner Byron Estrada and La Prensa journalist Emiliano Chamorro were illegally detained for more than two hours at the Penas Blancas border, on Monday night, when they returned from Costa Rica to Nicaragua after attending the “March of Unity” in San Jose.
Read MorePresident Daniel Ortega announced on Tuesday that new environmental projects are being carried out to resume the megaproject of the construction of the interoceanic canal through Nicaragua, a construction work whose investment was initially estimated at US $50 billion.
Read MoreRussian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu expressed support on Thursday for oil-rich Venezuela’s efforts to counter “attempts by the United States to change the legally elected government,” reported dpa news.
Read MoreThe intense heat will continue, with high temperatures at 32 and 33° C (90 and 91 F), and low temperatures around 25° C (77 F). The sea surface temperature will remain at 30° C (86 F).
Read MoreToday’s featured band is La Perla from Colombia with the song “El Sancocho” from the album “Paren la Bulla”. (2016)
Read MoreWaiting on the wall, Camaguey, Cuba. By Yosbel Lezcano (Cuba). Camera: Nikon Coolpix L810.
Read MoreToday’s featured band is Sexteto Habanero from Cuba with the song “El Bongo del Habanero” (studio recorded in 1928), which was featured in the US movie “Hell Harbor”(1930). Submitted by Hector Capote from Twin Cities, Minnesota.
Read MoreFan of Che Guevara and Pink Floyd, Havana, Cuba. By Alan P. (USA). Camera: Nikon D610
Read MoreMembers of an organized crime group reportedly intended to kidnap Cuban migrants in exchange for ransom, when the shelter director, Aarón Méndez, was taken after trying to protect the migrants in his care.
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