Pretoria, December 17 (RHC)-- The President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of South Africa, Mtho Xulu, and his Cuban counterpart, Antonio Luis Carricarte, signed virtually an important cooperation agreement between both entities.... More
Havana, December 17 (RHC)-- One million 700 thousand Cuban retirees start receiving as Thursday an advance on their pensions, which will be increased as part of the monetary reform that will come into effect on January 1.... More
Havana, December 17 (RHC)-- The most immediate goal of the Ordering Task is the study and analysis of all the opinions voiced by the population, which are being collected thanks to the early announcement of the measures. "Everything is being reviewed, including the electricity tariff.... More
Havana, December 17 (RHC)-- President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez highlighted the epic that the Cuban people have lived through 2020. "We have lived through this year of pandemic perhaps, the hardest year of the Revolution in the last decades."... More
Kansas City, December 17 (RHC)-- In the U.S., Major League Baseball (MLB) has elevated the so-called “Negro Leagues” of 1920 through 1948 to “Major League” status, MLB said on Wednesday, calling the move a correction of “a longtime oversight.”... More
London, December 16 (RHC)-- The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is launching a domestic emergency to feed those British children most badly affected by the coronavirus pandemic. This is the first time since its foundation in 1946 that the UN agency tasked with the provision of humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide is intervening to feed starving children in the UK.... More
Washington, December 16 (RHC)-- The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on companies based in China and the United Arab Emirates, accusing them of supporting the sale of Iranian petrochemicals as Washington increases pressure on Tehran in the closing days of President Donald Trump’s term.... More
Sacramento, December 16 (RHC)-- The U.S. state of California has ordered thousands of body bags and mobile morgues amid the increasing number of COVID-19 cases. The “Mass Fatality Program" was announced by the state's governor, Gavin Newsom. ... More
Berlin, December 16 (RHC)-- Europe has tightened coronavirus restrictions ahead of Christmas, with a number of countries entering weeks of lockdown, amid a surge in infections in recent weeks.... More
Matanzas, December 16 (RHC)-- The Canadian company Sunwing Airlines has resumed flights to the Juan Gualberto Gómez International Airport, in the western Cuban province of Matanzas.... More
Havana, December 16 (RHC)-- The Prime Minister of Cuba, Manuel Marrero, is encouraging the sale of agricultural products to Tourism, as one of the main problems to resolve in order to reduce food imports for this sector.... More
Kabul, December 16 (RHC)-- At least 13 Afghan policemen have been killed when Taliban militants attacked two checkpoints overnight in the north of the country, officials say. The militants stormed and briefly held the checkpoints on the outskirts of Pule Khumri, capital of northern Baghlan province, officials said Wednesday.... More
Washington, December 16 (RHC)-- In the U.S., a new rule is set to go into effect which would send some asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border to El Salvador, instead of letting them receive humanitarian protection in the United States.... More
Washington, December 16 (RHC)-- Hundreds of U.S. immigrant rights activists participated in a car caravan Tuesday to Joe Biden’s hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, urging him to implement immigration reform, criminal justice reform and cancel Puerto Rico’s debt within his first 100 days in office. ... More
Washington, December 16 (RHC)-- U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has finally acknowledged that Joe Biden won the November election — six weeks after voting ended. McConnell also urged Republican senators not to join a House Republican effort to try to overturn the Electoral College. ... More
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