Washington, December 9 (RHC)-- The Food and Drug Administration of the United States (FDA) confirmed, in informative documents published before the next meeting of the advisory committee of vaccines and biological products, that six people died during the trial of the coronavirus vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech.... More
Gaza City, December 9 (RHC)-- Health officials in Gaza City that they could no longer carry out coronavirus tests in the Gaza Strip because of a lack of kits amid a spike in cases in the besieged Palestinian territory. The health ministry called for urgent action “to provide the necessary equipment” to screen the population for the virus.... More
Madrid, December 10 (RHC)-- The president of the Virgin Voyages company, Tom McAlpin, declared at the recently concluded International Cruise Summit, held in Madrid, Spain, that the arrival of such ships in Cuba, prohibited by the U.S. blockade, could increase in 2021 when a new administration takes over the White House.... More
Cuban ambassador in Rabat, Javier Domokos, and the Moroccan Minister of Tourism, Air Transport, Crafts and Social Economy, Nadia Fettah, evaluated possible areas of cooperation in the tourism sector.... More
Havana, December 9 (RHC)-- Nearly 150 graduates of the Faculty of Tourism of the University of Havana in the 2019-2020 school year received their degrees last Monday in the Aula Magna of the almost three-hundred-year-old house of higher learning, the oldest in Cuba.... More
Havana, December 9 (RHC)-- The Prime Minister of Cuba, Manuel Marrero Cruz, toured the tourist facilities of Cayo Largo del Sur, as part of the governmental visit that the country's authorities made to the special municipality of Isla de la Juventud, led by Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel.... More
Tehran, December 9 (RHC)-- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump is obstructing the Iranian people’s access to basic needs, particularly at the time of the coronavirus pandemic.... More
Washington, December 9 (RHC)-- In U.S. environmental news, the Donald Trump administration has rejected setting tougher standards on industrial soot emissions despite evidence linking the deadly air pollutant to increasing COVID-19 deaths and other respiratory illnesses. ... More
Washington, December 9 (RHC)-- Nearly 1,500 lawyers from around the United States have signed an open letter to the American Bar Association condemning Rudy Giuliani and other Trump campaign lawyers for subverting democracy.... More
Washington, December 9 (RHC)-- A U.S. district judge has dismissed the case against US President Donald Trump’s former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn as “moot,” citing a presidential pardon issued by Trump. The U.S. president pardoned Flynn, who had pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI during the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, on November 25th.... More
London, December 9 (RHC)-- A new report has found that as much as 90 percent of the population in dozens of poorer countries will miss out on the coronavirus vaccine next year because most of the supply has already been taken by rich nations.... More
Havana, December 9 (RHC)-- The National Assembly of the Popular Power (Parliament) of Cuba regretted today the position of the Belgian Eurodeputy Maria Arena on the recent provocations against the Caribbean country.... More
Havana, December 9 (RHC)-- The Council of State of the Republic of Cuba met Tuesday afternoon, in a meeting chaired by Esteban Lazo Hernández, with the participation of Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz.... More
Havana, December 9 (RHC)-- Cuba's new Business Opportunities Portfolio has 503 foreign investment projects, 43 more than the previous one, and an estimated investment of 12,070 million dollars, according to Rodrigo Malmierca Díaz, Minister of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment.... More
Havana, December 9 (RHC)-- The 7th Cuba-CARICOM Summit ended with a pronouncement against the blockade and the United States' financial persecution against the largest island of the Caribbean.... More
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