On 17 February, 2017, the then-US chargé d'affaires in Havana sent a complaint to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MINREX) about alleged "attacks" against his staff, which had theoretically...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) yesterday raised its travel warning level for Israel and the occupied Palestinian Territories due to the rising number of COVID-19...

US authorities today returned Abdul Latif Nasser to Morocco after releasing him from Guantanamo Bay, 19 years after holding him there without charge or trial, rights group Reprieve has said. "Abdul...

One of Haiti's most powerful gang leaders has threatened to instigate violent protests over the recent assassination of the island's President Jovenel Moise who was killed at his residence earlier this month,...

The Caribbean Against Apartheid in Palestine (CAAP) on Saturday continued its condemnation of Israel's occupation of Palestine and aggression against its people. The organisation staged its protest action outside...

Cuba has celebrated the 58th anniversary of sending its first medical mission to Algeria on 23 May 1963. The then President Fidel Castro had called on Cubans to contribute...

The government of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines has issued a communique calling on Israel to end its aggression against the Palestinians. Dated on Friday the statement urged Israel...

Cruise operator Royal Caribbean is cancelling a new line that had been scheduled to run from Israel to Greece and Cyprus from next month, citing regional security concerns, reports...

"The Palestinian cause is a trickling genocide, slow but relentless"

Caribbean Against Apartheid in Palestine (CAAP) has issued a press statement condemning the on-going attacks on Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip. This is part of...

Covid-19 has been a lengthy wake-up call. It is a loud and costly reminder of our lack of preparedness. One of many crucial questions this deadly pandemic is confronting...

The Syrian People's Assembly yesterday agreed to invite friendly Arab and foreign parliaments to observe the presidential elections scheduled in May, local media reported. SANA news agency said the parliaments...

Mohamedou Ould Slahi, 50, faced beatings, electrocution mock executions and sexual humiliation in America’s notorious Guantanamo Bay prison

Turkey and Cuba have signed an agreement to bolster cooperation and reduce bureaucracy in the maritime field, Turkish authorities revealed on Friday. The agreement was signed by Selim Dursun,...

In recent years, Cuba has been forced to diversify its sources of financing to guarantee its collaboration and the survival of the Cuban health system itself, one of the great social gains of the Revolution.

A former Guantanamo Bay inmate, Mullah Muhammad Nabi Omari, recently appeared in the Taliban delegation scheduled to meet with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Fayez Al-Kandari claimed on...

A senior Hamas delegation headed by its chief in Lebanon, Ahmed Abdul-Hadi, met on Wednesday with Cuba's Ambassador to Lebanon Alexander Moraga, a statement disclosed. The meeting took place in...

Unique in the modern era, there have been 11 presidents in Latin America with Arab origins (ten plus one President-elect), a result of more than a century of Arab...

State violence against indigenous populations is arguably the most visible of human rights violations and, conversely, of the least concern to the international community. After the military coup in...

Today, the 5th August marks 57 years since President Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela's arrest near Howick, KwaZulu Natal, in 1962. The Apartheid regime was in cahoots with the CIA and...

Imagine an Atlantic region where Canada, Mexico, Cuba and Venezuela teamed up to sign a new landmark NAFTA-like agreement, distributing amongst themselves the oil and natural gas reserves off...

The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) called for the lifting of unilateral economic sanctions, Sunday. This came in a statement adopted at a ministerial meeting in Caracas, in which the speakers...

The United States has tightly restricted the travel of more than a dozen Iranian diplomats and their families living in New York, according to a US diplomatic note to...

In 1947, Cuba was one of the few countries opposing the UN Partition Plan, which laid the groundwork for Israel's colonisation of Palestine. At the time, the Cuban envoy...

Saudi Arabia, Russia, and 35 other states have written to the United Nations supporting China's policies in its western region of Xinjiang, according to a copy of the letter...

The government of Barbados, which froze its recognition of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic in 2013, decided on Friday to withdraw its recognition. According to a joint statement signed...

Palestinian Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PDFLP) condemned, Monday, renewed US sanctions on Cuba, Safan news agency reported. In a statement reported by Safa, the PDFLP said...

For nearly a week, the international media and social media have been talking about an interview between Al-Sisi and the famous American corresponded, Scott Pelly, on CBS's 60 Minutes....

Caribbean Against Apartheid in Palestine and the Cuban Embassy will take part in a joint ceremony marking 70 years since the Palestinian Nakba today. A flower laying ceremony...

Iraq's Foreign Minister, Ibrahim Al-Jaafari, has called on Cuba to cooperate in tackling its debt to Baghdad, not least because his country is experiencing exceptional circumstances due to low...

Algeria is set to receive more doctors from Cuba in return for suppling crude oil in helping to offset a steep decline in oil shipments from Cuba's key ally...

Delegates from some of the largest grassroots organisations in Latin America have "condemned the refusal of certain Caribbean countries to recognise the legitimate right of the people of Palestine...