2010-07-27

Those hoping for announcements of change at Cuba’s Revolution Day ceremony in front of the Che Guevara monument on 26 July were disappointed

Euronews interviewed Carmelo Mesa-Lago, originally Cuban but now a US citizen and Professor Emeritus of Economics and Latin American Studies at the

Cuba has much more than an economic crisis. Its state-controlled, centrally-planned economy is frozen and badly in need of modernisation. It can’t

On July 13, seven freed Cuban dissidents arrived at Madrid airport in Spain. They were part of a group of 75 people who were given long prison

A breathtaking mountain backdrop and the big stars of classical music – that’s the Verbier Festival. Emerging talents and a who’s who of the

Here are some extra excerpts from our interviews with the Chinese pianist Yuja Wang and the conductor Charles Dutoit. They talk to us more about the

BP’s outgoing chief Tony Hayward insisted in May the firm was in for the long-haul after its deep water horizon rig blew in the Gulf of Mexico

Paris says it is ‘at war’ with al Qaeda after a 78-year-old French hostage was put to death by the group’s North African wing. Seized in Niger in

Pressure is mounting on the mayor of Duisburg to quit after 20 people were crushed to death at the city’s Love Parade over the weekend. Adolf

Amid growing tensions in the peninsula, North and South Korea have marked the 57th anniversary of the armistice ending the Korean war. In a show

Iceland has officially begun talks on EU membership just as Icelanders themselves seem to be going off the idea. Launching formal negotiations, the

These nuns are some of the world’s finest female singers of the Gregorian Chant. The nuns of the Abbaye de Notre Dame de l’Annonciation in Provence

Two electric autonomous orange vans are on their way from Italy to China. They will brave the traffic of Moscow, the intense summer heat of Siberia

Julianne Moore and Annette Bening play a long-term lesbian couple in The Kids Are All Right, whose lives are turned upside down when their teenage

Ethnic clashes erupted in southeastern Turkey on Tuesday (July 27) a day after a deadly attack on police. Unknown gunmen in a van shot four Turkish

On the second day of a Shi’ite pilgrimage in the Iraqi holy city of Kerbala, security has been stepped up after a series of deadly bomb

Anti-North Korean protests and pro-peace South-Korean rallies marked the 57th anniversary of the end of the Korean War.

South Korean and U.S. warships conduct anti-submarine exercises as part of joint military drills.

Britain is vowing to fight for Turkey to join the European Union, in the face of resistance from other EU states. Prime Minister David Cameron made

Greenpeace claimed to have closed down all of BP ‘s petrol stations in London on Tuesday. The activist group said it had shut down all the oil

Raging flood waters left two fishermen stranded in the middle of a river on Monday (July 26) near the Devari dam in India’s central Madhya Pradesh

Residents of Duisburg pay their respects to the victims of a deadly stampede at a dance festival as prosecutors opened a criminal investigation into

The US has played down the release of secret military documents by the WikiLeaks website. State Department spokesman PJ Crowley said the

Clean up operations continued across parts of Chongqing on Tuesday after serious flooding affected low lying areas of the city.

The West, for him is an idea, an idea of liberty and democracy a concept that Germany failed to grasp until almost too late. Heinrich August Winkler

Going on a spacewalk is difficult enough, but holding on to objects while floating in such a cumbersome outfit is something else entirely. Two

France has said it will step up its fight against terrorism after the killing of 78-year-old hostage Michel Germaneau in Mali. French Prime

From BP chief in London, to a job in Siberia. That is reported to be the fate of Tony Hayward, with the oil giant confirming he will step down on

It is confirmation of his emergence from four years of seclusion. The former Cuban leader Fidel Castro has made a public appearance at ceremonies in

2010 Tour de France winner Alberto Contador arrives in Madrid to a hero’s welcome.