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FILE – United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres speak during a Security Council meeting at the United Nations headquarters, April 18, 2024. U.N. Secretary General António Guterres called Wednesday, June 5, 2024, for a “windfall” tax on profits of fossil fuel companies to help pay for the fight against global warming, decrying them as the “godfathers of climate chaos.” (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)

Forthcoming UN report will describe Israel and Hamas as violating children’s rights in armed conflict

June 7, 2024 at 5:05 p.m.

In his annual report to the U.N. Security Council, the body's secretary-general will list Israel and Hamas as violating the rights of children in armed conflict.

In this March 14, 2020 file photo, a Venezuelan woman is carried across a river to Colombia from Venezuela, near the Simon Bolivar International Bridge in La Parada near Cucuta, Colombia. Colombian President Ivan Duque ordered the nation's border with Venezuela closed as a coronavirus containment measure.

Coronavirus hits rich and poor unequally in Latin America

March 31, 2020 at 2:47 p.m.

From Mexico City to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and Santiago, Chile, the coronavirus is taking root in the world's most unequal region, where many of Latin America's first cases arrived with members...

El equipo cubano de Los Leones de las Tunas escuchan el himno nacional previo a un juego de la pasada Serie del Caribe en Panamá.

EEUU frustra acuerdo entre las Grandes Ligas y Cuba

April 9, 2019 at 4:21 p.m.

El gobierno de Donald Trump deshizo el lunes un acuerdo que habría permitido a los jugadores de la Federación Cubana de Béisbol ser contratados en equipos de las Grandes Ligas...

Además de en sus viviendas, funcionarios dijeron que los estadounidenses fueron atacados en al menos un hotel, el recién renovado Hotel Capri, a unos pasos del Malecón, el emblemático paseo marítimo de La Habana.

Se agudiza el misterio de ataques a diplomáticos en Cuba

May 15, 2019 at 4:03 p.m.

El estruendoso ruido hizo que un diplomático estadounidense saltara de su cama en un hotel de La Habana. Se movió apenas unos metros y solo halló silencio. Volvió a la...

FILE - In this Nov. 1, 2001, file photo, the first passengers of the first flight of Continental Airlines from Miami Florida, arrives at the Jose Marti Airport of Havana, Cuba. The United States and Cuba have reached an understanding on restoring regularly scheduled commercial flights, Cuban and American officials said Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2016 on the eve of the anniversary of detente between the Cold War foes.

US, Cuba reach understanding on restoring commercial flights

June 24, 2019 at 1:55 a.m.

The United States and Cuba have reached an understanding on restoring regularly scheduled commercial flights, Cuban and American officials said Wednesday on the eve of the anniversary of detente between...

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