
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton offered an unwavering defense Wednesday of the Obama administration's response to the 2012 assaults on U.S. government posts in Benghazi, Libya.
Mrs. Clinton again took responsibility for any security lapses in Benghazi but praised the response from her department and other government agencies.

Chávez en su intemperancia, lleva a Venezuela como "luz, aroma y un cuatro en el corazón"
El TSJ decretó una orden política. Cierto. Saltarse el 231-C fue saltarse el Derecho y convalidar el secretismo sobre la condición de salud y vida del Primer mandatario.

Malian and French forces were reported to be in control of two important central Malian towns on Tuesday after the French Defense Ministry said they recaptured them on Monday, pushing back an advance by Islamist militants who have overrun the country’s northern half.

Un grupo de 22 escritores procedentes de 13 países latinoamericanos más Francia comenzó hoy las jornadas de lecturas de la edición 54 del Premio Literario Casa de las Américas, el más antiguo de las letras en la región.
Por duodécimo año en sucesión la ciudad de Cienfuegos, 250 kilómetros al sudeste de La Habana, acoge en su emblemático hotel Jagua, al comité de selección de los lauros.

A high-speed fibre-optic cable connecting Cuba to the global internet appears to have finally been activated, monitoring experts have said.
Cubans currently rely on satellite connections - which are expensive and slow - to get online.
But the cable, which has been in place since 2011, has shown the first signs of activity, Renesys said.

Cyber-attacks on Iran are turning it into a "force to be reckoned with" America's top cyber-soldier has warned.
Since 2010, Iran has come under attack many times by malicious viruses written specifically to target key industrial installations in the country.
The repeated attacks have provoked Iran to improve its cyber-capabilities, said Gen William Shelton who oversees US cyber-operations.

The trial of five men over the gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman has begun at a specially convened fast-track court in India's capital, Delhi.
If convicted, the men could face the death penalty. A sixth suspect, who is thought to be 17, is expected to be tried by a juvenile court.

Las conversaciones de paz entre las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia-Ejército del Pueblo (FARC-EP) y el gobierno de ese país tienen hoy su segundo día de receso, tras el reinicio del diálogo el 14 de enero.
La mesa que tiene como sede permanente el habanero Palacio de Convenciones continúa centrada en el primer punto de la agenda referido al desarrollo rural, considerado la causa fundamental del conflicto armado en Colombia.

At least 48 hostages are now thought to have died in a four-day siege at an Algerian gas plant, as reports say that 25 bodies found at the complex on Sunday were all those of captives.
It had initially been unclear whether the bodies found were those of hostage-takers or staff at the facility.

Tehran's latest propaganda offensive shows Barack Obama on a huge mural side by side with a seventh-century Shia villain.
For connoisseurs of political symbolism, Tehran – a city whose best billboard real estate is devoted to Islamist ideology – is a feast.