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US Embassy in Havana: Washington’s “Cuba Gambit”

December 24, 2014October 20, 2016 Global AuthorBarack Obama, Cuba, Havana, Hillary Clinton, Raul Castro, US, US Politics

The lame duck, Obama, extending a conciliatory hand to Cuba by opening an embassy in Havana, by reopening, after 54 years of a criminal and crippling embargo, diplomatic relations? – At the same time Obama is making not a single concession in terms of lifting the blockade. This smells like a trap. Imagine – a US Embassy in Havana –… Read More

UN Arms Trade Treaty to take effect in December

September 27, 2014 Global AuthorArms Trade Treaty, Ban Ki-Moon, Control Arms, Ratification, United nations, Vision-GRAM International

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — An ambitious treaty designed to regulate the multibillion-dollar global arms trade will take effect on Dec. 24 after it was ratified Thursday by five more countries. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said in a statement that more than 50 countries have now ratified the treaty, meaning it will soon take force. “Today marks a milestone,” Ban said,… Read More

Cuba joins international response to Ebola

September 13, 2014 Global AuthorCuba, Ebola, Margarat Chan, Roberto Morales, UN, WHO

After meeting in Geneva with World Health Organization director general Margaret Chan, Cuban Health Minister Roberto Morales said that given the history of Cuban international collaboration, particularly in healthcare, Cuba has been asked to join the group of countries which will provide an initial response to the Ebola epidemic in Africa. . Read More

Hillary Clinton finally addresses Ferguson, blaming inequities between Blacks and Whites

August 31, 2014October 20, 2016 Global AuthorAl Sharpeton, Barack Obama, Ferguson, Hillary Clinton, Martin Luther King, Michael Brown, US, US Politics

After being implored by Al Sharpeton and many others in the Black Community, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made her first public comments Thursday on the shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., calling for the country to address “inequities” in the criminal-justice system. . Read More

Ukraine Claims ‘Thousands’ of Russian Troops Invaded, Offers No Evidence

August 31, 2014 Global AuthorCNN, NATO, Russia, Ukraine, US

Ukrainian officials are now claiming a Russian invasion of four to five thousand ground troops backed by columns of tanks and other armored vehicles, a dramatic escalation from yesterday’s claims of about 1,000 such troops. As with yesterday’s allegations, Ukraine is offering no evidence to back up the claims, and the reports coming out of the region suggest such a massive invasion... Read More

Vladimir Putin warns the West: Don’t mess with nuclear-armed Russia

August 30, 2014 Global AuthorBarack Obama, NATO, pro-Kremlin, Russia, Ukraine, Vladmir Putin

Russia's president, speaking at a pro-Kremlin youth camp at a lake near Moscow, said "it's best not to mess with us," adding "I want to remind you that Russia is one of the leading nuclear powers" Vladimir Putin raised the spectre of nuclear war with the West on Friday as he defied international condemnation over his decision to send thousands... Read More

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas asks UN for international protection in Gaza as hostilities with Israel continue

July 14, 2014 Global AuthorGaza strip, Isreal, Mahmoud Abbas, MIddle East, Palestine, United nations

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has asked the United Nations to put the state of Palestine under “international protection” due to the worsening violence in the Gaza Strip. The ABC’s Matt Brown in Jerusalem Rockets are still streaking out of Gaza into the sky and heading north into Israel, but notably there’s a more low-key feel around the border… Read More

BBC condemns Ethiopian broadcast Jamming

May 30, 2014 Global Author

30 May 2014. Liliane Landor, acting Director of the BBC World Service Group, has called on the Ethiopian authorities to stop jamming BBC broadcasts in the Middle East and North Africa. She joined directors from Deutsche Welle, France 24, and the US Broadcasting Board of Directors which oversees the Voice of America, in condemning the flagrant violation of the clearly established... Read More

Revelations about U.S. operations in Cuba corroborate President Raúl Castro’s assertions

April 7, 2014October 20, 2016 Global AuthorBarack Obama, Cuba, Hillary Clinton, Obama, Raul Castro, US, US Politics, USAID

President Raul Castro's denunciations of the United States government's attempts to destabilize Cuba were corroborated by the April 3 revelation of a plan to draw Cuban youth toward counter-revolution, with the participation of a U.S. government agency. To undermine Cuban authorities, Washington planned the creation of a "Cuban Twitter," promoted by USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development), through a network... Read More

Cuban Parliament Passes New Foreign Investment Law

April 3, 2014 Global AuthorCuba, Fernando Gonzalez, Marino Murillo, President Raul Castro, Rafael Ramon Santiesteban, Rodrigo Malmierca

CUBA, April 1st, 2014. The Cuban Parliament unanimously adopted last March 29 a new Foreign Investment Law, crucial to updating the country’s economic model and building a prosperous and sustainable socialist system. The law was adopted with modifications submitted by the parliamentary commissions on Economic, and Constitutional and Legal Issues. . Read More

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