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Cuban officials bolster relations with Vietnam
Cuba's foreign minister, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, arrived in Hanoi this week on a three-day official visit, invited by Vietnam's foreign minister, Pham Binh Minh.
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Cardinal Ortega is Pope’s envoy to Canadian fête
Cardinal Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, Archbishop of Havana, will be Pope Francis' special envoy to the celebration of the 350th anniversary of the parish of Notre-Dame de Québec,…
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Israel’s new favorite christians
This is not the first time, of course, that Israel has glommed onto regional Christian communities in the anti-Arab struggle.
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Palestinian Authority says rebuild could take at least five years
The Palestinian Authority announced on Thursday that the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, devastated by the most recent Israeli bombing campaign, will cost nearly $8 billion and would…
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Over a million somalis in critical danger as food crisis expected to worsen
The number of Somalians who need urgent lifesaving humanitarian assistance has increased by 20 percent since January of this year.
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Russia buoyed by Latin American support
The Russian media are giving prime display to the statements given this week by Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro and Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in support of Russia and…
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ISIS: Questions from neophytes
To those of us who are not specialists in the problems of the Middle East, the appearance of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) was a real surprise.
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Earth sliding into ‘ecological debt’ earlier and earlier, campaigners warn
World has already exhausted a year’s supply of natural resources in less than eight months, Global Footprint Network says
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Lavrov: Latin America is a pillar of the new world order
Latin America will be one of the pillars of the new world order, and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) is an important part of that structure, Russian Foreign…
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The UN’s new report on global warming is the most terrifying yet
The New York Times and Bloomberg News got a look at a draft of a new UN report on climate change. It’s bleak, to say the least.
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