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HAVANA — Until recently, the space was the one-car garage of a private home in Cuba’s capital, Havana. Today, it is a well-stocked, if small, grocery store whose big board at the gate entices shoppers with such offerings as cooking oil, tomato sauce, Hershey’s cocoa powder, Nutella, shampoo, cookies, and jam — a treasure trove in a country that is short […]
Yemen’s Houthis, an Iran-backed rebel group, seized a cargo ship in the southern Red Sea and say they have taken it to a Yemeni port. “We are treating the ship’s crew in accordance with Islamic principles and values,” a spokesperson of the group’s military said in a statement. The group said the ship was an Israeli vessel. The Israeli military […]
The Inter-American Development Bank said yesterday that remittances received by Latin American and Caribbean countries are projected to reach a record US$155 billion in 2023. The Washington-based financial institution in a new report said the record revenue would be achieved if the current trends continue. According to the IDB, the 2023 figure would be an increase of 9.5 percent compared […]
Congress has passed a temporary funding measure that will keep federal agencies operating until the new year, days before the US faced a government shutdown. The Senate passed the stopgap bill by a vote of 87-11 Wednesday night after the House passed it earlier this week. President Joe Biden is expected to sign the bill before Friday’s deadline. This is […]
TEHRAN, IRAN — Iran on Thursday rejected a G7 statement that called on Tehran to stop supporting Hamas militants and taking actions that “destabilize” the Middle East. Tehran’s comment came a day after foreign ministers from the G7 group of advanced economies, meeting in Tokyo, expressed support for “humanitarian pauses and corridors” in the Israeli-Hamas war. Israeli airstrikes have pounded the […]
SEOUL — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken condemned what he said was the “growing and dangerous” military cooperation between North Korea and Russia, following reports that Pyongyang is supplying weapons for Moscow’s war in Ukraine. “This is a matter of deep concern for both of us, as well as for other countries around the world,” Blinken said at a press […]
Jailed Iranian rights activist Narges Mohammadi, who went on a hunger strike earlier this week, has been admitted to a hospital, the husband of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate told VOA. Taghi Rahmani revealed that Mohammadi had been moved from Tehran’s Evin Prison to the hospital for medical evaluation. Mohammadi, 51, had gone on a hunger strike after being blocked […]
MEXICO — A caravan of at least hundreds of migrants left from the southern Mexican city of Tapachula on Sunday heading for the U.S. southern border. The smaller caravan plans to join a larger one that left six days ago and is currently stopped about 40 kilometers north of the town of Huixtla. Organizers said the first had swelled to some […]
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis made an urgent plea for a halt to the conflict in Gaza on Sunday, calling for humanitarian aid and help for those injured in order to ease the “very grave” situation. “I keep thinking about the grave situation in Palestine and Israel where many people have lost their lives. I pray you to stop in the […]
The British Defense Ministry said Sunday that Russian soldiers in Ukraine are suffering from an “age-old battle against the elements.” The daily British intelligence report said that soldiers at a military affairs conference in Moscow complained earlier this month about being “wet from head to toe” for weeks on the front line and unable to light a fire for “a […]
