Venezuela on Thursday announced the release of 24 prisoners jailed for political reasons, shortly after its election to the UN Human Rights Council sparked criticism because of the country's poor human rights record. The post Venezuela Releases Two Dozen of its Hundreds of Political Prisoners appeared first on Havana Times .
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to Extinction Rebellion’s official website, the angry commuters who attacked the protestors holding up their train reacted violently to the protest because ... Read more
Striking General Motors workers will stay on the picket lines for at least another week until they vote on a tentative contract with the company. Read more
President Donald Trump toured a new Louis Vuitton leather workshop in Texas on Thursday before headlining a campaign rally in Dallas. (Oct. 17) Read more
The UAE is pumping millions of dollars into "vast and influential" lobbying efforts in the US, using a range of public relations companies to help shape foreign policy issues, a report by a Washington ... Read more
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[Vanguard] Following three days of negotiations by Government and the Organised Labour on the consequential adjustments of the implementation of the new minimum wage of N30,000, both parties have fina ... Read more
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) attempted to push former U.S. Special Envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker to testify during his secret deposition early this month in favor of the allegation that President Donald Tru ... Read more
Up until now, Mattis has been reluctant to criticize Trump publicly. The post After Trump Calls His Former Defense Secretary ‘The World’s Most Overrated General,’ Mattis Smacks Back at Al ... Read more
A Tesco security guard was called a 'f****** monkey n***** c***' outside Portsmouth's Tesco, in clip shared on Saturday. Abuser's girlfriend said 'he is not racist' and the filmer says 'put him to sle ... Read more
Kurdish forces accuse Turkey of attacking its fighters and civilians despite US-brokered agreement with Erdogan for halt in operation to allow Kurds to withdraw Read more
Johnson & Johnson said on Friday that it would recall a single lot of its baby powder in the United States after the Food and Drug Administration found trace amounts of asbestos in samples taken from ... Read more
Thousands of protesters filled the streets of downtown Beirut as part of nation-wide demonstrations over deteriorating economic conditions and new austerity measures. CNN's Ben Wedeman reports. Read more
White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney is furious with the media after he said in a press conference that President Donald Trump held funds from the Ukraine until they agreed to investigate corrupti ... Read more
The royal sisters, aged 13 and 12 respectively, joined their parents at a reception with the winners of the Princess of Asturias Awards in Oviedo, Northern Spain. Read more
It was revealed Thursday morning that longtime Democrat Congressman Elijah Cummings (MD) died at the age of 68 on Wednesday. Cummings was the Chairman of the very powerful House Oversight Committee an ... Read more