Havana, July 23 (RHC)-- The President of the Republic of Cuba, at the request of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), has awarded the Medal of Friendship to US musician, actor, social activist and friend of Cuba, Harry Belafonte, the Cuban Ambassador to the United States, Jose Ramon Cabañas, said on Twitter.... More
Tehran, July 23 (RHC)-- A U.S. warplane has conducted some “dangerous” maneuvering at an appallingly close distance from a Beirut-bound Iranian airliner as passenger plane was flying over the Syrian capital Damascus, injuring some of the passengers.... More
Beijing, July 23 (RHC)-- The Chinese government announced this Thursday, during a virtual meeting with Latin American and Caribbean foreign ministers, that the vaccine developed in their country against COVID-19 disease will be public property with universal access.... More
Pretoria, July 23 (RHC)-- The South African anti-apartheid activist Andrew Mlangeni has died at the age of 95. ... More
Washington, July 23 (RHC)-- The Democratic-controlled House has approved a $740 billion military spending package — a $2 billion increase from the previous year. A group of antiwar Democrats had pushed for a 10% Pentagon budget cut, but 139 House Democrats joined with Republicans to defeat the measure. ... More
Washington, July 23 (RHC)-- The number of U.S. military personnel infected with COVID-19 has topped 20,000, raising growing concerns in Japan, South Korea, Germany and other countries housing U.S. military bases, as well as in the war zones of Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria. ... More
Ramallah, July 23 (RHC)-- In the occupied West Bank, Israeli authorities have demolished a coronavirus testing center in the city of Hebron. ... More
San Francisco, July 23 (RHC)-- The coronavirus death toll at San Quentin State Prison in the U.S. state of California has now reached 12. More than 2,000 men held at the prison have tested positive in one of the nation’s worst outbreaks. ... More
Havana, July 23 (RHC)-- The Cuban Foreign Ministry announced that the Cuban Government, without renouncing the ownership of its Clinica del Colabolador in La Paz, is authorizing the use of the facility by the brotherly Bolivian people to assist the patients of the COVID-19 while the crisis generated by the pandemic lasts.... More
Lincoln, July 23 (RHC)-- A new study by the University of Nebraska suggests that COVID-19 can spread through normal speaking and breathing, and travel further than two metres, according to a report by AFP. The findings have not yet been peer reviewed.... More
Geneva, July 23 (RHC)-- The World Health Organization, the WHO, is working to ensure fair vaccine distribution, but in the meantime it is key to suppress the virus's spread, said Mike Ryan, head of WHO's emergencies program, as daily new cases around the globe are at near-record levels.... More
Los Angeles, July 23 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of California, Los Angeles is on the brink of shutting down again as coronavirus cases continue to soar. This comes as California has overtaken New York as the state with the most coronavirus cases with just over 409,000 confirmed cases. The death toll in New York, however, is four times higher than in California. ... More
Havana, July 23 (RHC)-- The National Director of Epidemiology of the Cuban Ministry of Public Health, Dr. Francisco Duran, reported four new cases detected of COVID-19, for a total of 2,466 positive cases across the island. ... More
Baltimore, July 23 (RHC)-- The number of novel coronavirus cases worldwide exceeded 15 million, according to a running tally by U.S.-based Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.... More
Havana, July 22 (RHC)—The president of CIMEX Corporation, Hector Oroza Busutil, announced on Wednesday that beginning in September, wholesale markets will operate island-wide as part of the newly announced strategy to boost the economy and face the world crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.... More
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