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Cuba begins releasing prisoners under scrutiny of rights groups, US government

The decision to release the prisoners on the island comes after Washington's most intense pressure campaign in decades, although Havana denies any decision-making under US coercion.

Regla Yolanda Gonzalez poses for a photograph following her son's release from prison, part of a deal brokered by the Vatican that saw the Biden administration loosen sanctions on Cuba, in Havana, Cuba January 21, 2025.
IRAN’S CROWN Prince Reza Pahlavi meets with Iranian former left-wing political prisoners in Paris. Many who formerly would never would have the son of the shah have now backed his post-regime plan for Iran. Iraj Mesdaghi is second from left, next to Pahlavi, and bottom right is Mahshid Sepehri.

From revolutionaries to royalists? Why some of Iran's former leftists now back Reza Pahlavi

The US flag flutters at the US embassy in Caracas on March 14, 2026, ten days after the restoration of diplomatic relations following the capture of ousted leader Nicolas Maduro in a US military raid.

US push for Western Hemisphere dominance could extend to Cuba and Nicaragua, experts say

New York City mayoral candidates Zohran Mamdani, left, and Andrew Cuomo.

Anti-Mamdani super PAC evokes ‘communist’ label as Cuomo seeks GOP voters in NYC mayoral race


South African anti-apartheid activist Denis Goldberg dies at age 87

Despite recieving help from the Israeli government in the negotiated release of his 22-year imprisonment, Goldberg remained a vocal critic of Israel and avid supporter of the BDS movement.

Denis Goldberg, South African anti-apartheid activist, speaking at the launch of the Edinburgh World Justice Festival, 12 October 2013 in the Grassmarket Community Centre.

Chinese businessman missing after criticizing Xi's handling of coronavirus

Ren Zhiqiang, a member of China's ruling Communist Party, has not been heard from since March 12, friends say.

A screen shows a CCTV state media broadcast of Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to Wuhan at a shopping centre in Beijing as the country is hit by the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, China, March 10, 2020

Hebrew-speaking Chinese reporter sways Israeli ‘hearts and minds’

In an opinion piece on the Begin Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, an Israeli academic warns that Israelis respond a little too well to Hebrew speaking Chinese media stars.

A man wears a mask as he walks past a mural showing a modified image of the Chinese Communist Party emblem in Shanghai, China after the country is hit by an outbreak of the new coronavirus, January 28, 2020

Chinese court sentences Early Rain Church pastor to nine years for subversion

Wang Yi, pastor of the Early Rain Covenant Church, was among dozens of the church's members and leaders detained by police in December 2018, most of whom were subsequently released.

Chinese President Xi Jinping (front row, center) and fellow delegates raise their hands as they take a vote at the closing session of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, in Beijing, China October 24, 2017

The Holocaust in the Soviet Union in Real Time

‘Pravda,’ the Communist Party’s main newspaper, wrote about the estimated six million Jews murdered in December 1944 – before ‘The New York Times’ acknowledged this number.

MEMBERS OF the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee.

U.S. envoy blasts German minister for comparing U.S. with communist China

The comparison is “an insult to the thousands of American troops who help ensure Germany’s security and to the millions of Americans committed to a strong Western alliance.”

German Chancellor Angela Merkel receives the ambassador of U.S. to Germany, Richard Grenell, in Meseberg, Germany July 6, 2018

Anniversary of fall of Berlin Wall poses fresh challenges for German Jews

Although the fall of communism liberated Jewry, the striving for freedom continues

A SECTION of the Berlin Wall in Berlin. It was one of the iconic symbols of the Cold War

Mike Pompeo says U.S. must confront China's Communist Party

Pompeo said the United States had long cherished its friendship with the Chinese people, adding the Communist government was not the same thing as the people of China.

Secretary Mike Pompeo in Jerusalem

For the love of justice

In For the Love of Justice, my father incisively comments on many of these tumultuous events, bringing to them the personal experiences and emotions of one who lived through most of them.

Leo Lovell in a contemplative mood

Newly discovered account of 1933 Reichstag fire casts doubt on Nazi narrative

The seat of the German parliament was burned down on February 27, 1933. Dutch Communist Marinus van der Lubbe was convicted of arson and executed.

The Reichstag building burns, February 27 1933