Havana, September 9 (RHC)-- The Temporary Working Group of the Government for the control of COVID-19, headed by President Miguel Díaz-Canel, decided on Tuesday to declare the municipality of Ciego de Ávila in the phase of limited autochthonous transmission, following a spike of cases.... More


London, September 8 (RHC)-- In Britain, the extradition hearing of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange resumed this week, after being delayed for months amid the COVID-19 pandemic. ... More


Caracas, September 8 (RHC)-- The judicial decisions that disqualified the electoral candidacies of the former presidents of Bolivia, Evo Morales, and Ecuador, Rafael Correa, were criticized by political leaders in the region, who considered them a blow to democracy.... More


Havana, September 8 (RHC)—Cuba reported 25 new cases of Covid-19 and 2 deaths in the last 24 hours.... More


Havana, September 8 (RHC)-- Cuba celebrates Tuesday World Literacy Day with an acknowledgment of its educational achievements, particularly the campaign that in 1961 made the country the first territory free of illiteracy in the region.... More


Havana, Sep 7 (RHC) Cuban president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, ratified this Monday the importance of an effective screening to detect asymptomatic patients of Covid-19, at a time when the disease is spreading through the west and center of the country.... More


Sao Paulo, September 8 (RHC)-- Critics of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro are again speaking out against the leader’s stance on the coronavirus pandemic, this time rejecting his view that vaccination for the virus shouldn’t be mandatory.... More


Beirut, September 8 (RHC)-- Palestinian factions have announced a unified stance against attempts by Israel, the United States and some Arab countries to undermine the Palestinian cause, denouncing any form of normalization with the occupying regime as “a stab in the back” of not only the Palestinians but the entire Muslim world.... More


Havana, September 7 (RHC)—The National Director of Epidemiology of Cuba, Dr. Francisco Duran, informed that the island continued increasing the number of samples to detect COVID-19. It reached a new record of 7164 on Sunday.... More


Havana, September 7 (RHC)—This Monday, Cuba recalled with gratitude the U.S Reverend Lucius Walker (1930-2010), founder of the organization Pastors for Peace, on the 10th anniversary of his death.... More


The Virgin of Regla is the Patron Saint of the namesake town in front of the Bay of Havana. Dressed all in blue, she identifies with Yemayá, the owner of the sea in the Yoruba religion.... More


Castries, September 5 (RHC) Outstanding Caribbean diplomat and academics Ronald Sanders called CARICOM member States to duly exercise their right to decided their friends, and criticized US attacks on Cuban international cooperation, according to Prensa Latina news agency.... More


Ramallah, September 6 (RHC)-- Israeli forces have shot and injured two Palestinians during a search-and-arrest operation in the occupied West Bank before taking them into custody.... More


Washington, September 6 (RHC)-- U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders has raised concern that President Donald Trump will refuse to leave office if he loses reelection in November 2020.   In an interview, Sanders called on Congress and the media to make preparations for when Trump refuses to leave the White House.... More


Havana, Sep 6 (RHC) Cuban health authorities informed Sunday that 11 persons were diagnosed in the last 24 hours with Covid-19, which brings to 4 309 the total of confirmed cases with the disease in this country.... More


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