National Theater Award winner Rubén Darío Salazar

Havana, July 9 (RHC) -- Cuba’s National Performing Arts Council has granted the 2020 National Theater Award to children's theater director Rubén Darío Salazar and designer Zenén Calero... More


Havana, July 9 (RHC)-- The National Director of Epidemiology of the Cuban Ministry of Public Health, Dr. Francisco Duran, reported that there were four new cases detected of COVID-19, for a total of 2,403 positive cases across the island.  ... More


Quito, July 9 (RHC)-- Correlationism is grouped together in a platform, called "Union por la Esperanza" (Union for Hope), UNES, to participate in the next general elections of 2021.... More


Havana, July 9 (RHC)-- At the meeting of the temporary working group for the prevention and control of COVID-19 -- led daily by Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel and Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz -- Deputy Governor Yanet Hernández Pérez said that two events of local transmission of the disease remain open in Havana: one in Centro Habana and another in Cerro.  In the latter, a new case was confirmed on Wednesday, bringing the total to 20.... More


 Photo released by the Venezuelan shows the remains of the aircraft shot down by Strategic Command Operations of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (CEOFANB)-

Caracas, July 9 (RHC)-- The Venezuelan Air Force says it has “neutralized” an unidentified U.S.-registered aircraft used for drug trafficking after it violated the country’s airspace.... More


Washington, July 9 (RHC)-- U.S. President Donald Trump, who has been pushing states to open American schools in the fall, threatened to cut off federal funding to those that did not open.... More


Ramallah, July 8 (RHC)-- The Palestinian Authority has extended a lockdown in the West Bank for another five days in hopes of slowing a new outbreak of the coronavirus.... More


Belgrade, July 8 (RHC)-- A group of opposition supporters stormed the Serbian parliament building in Belgrade on Tuesday night in a protest against a lockdown planned for the capital this weekend to halt the spread of the coronavirus.... More


(Photo: Arelys María Echevarría, ACN.)

Santa Clara, July 8 (RHC)-- The Cuban Minister of Education Ena Elsa Velázquez confirmed this Wednesday the preparations for the resumption of the school year in the central province of Villa Clara, according to the three stages of recovery imposed by the pandemic of the new coronavirus, which marks new ways of acting with the aim of preserving the health of students, teachers and communities of residence.... More


Washington, July 8 (RHC)-- U.S. director of the National Institute of Allergy and Diseases Dr Anthony Fauci said the United States is in a resurgence of coronavirus cases, with daily cases nearly double the country's previously high baseline, and spoke in favour of government requirements for masks in public.... More


Washington, July 8 (RHC)-- In the United States, more than 60,000 new coronavirus cases were reported Tuesday — a new record, shattering the previous high.  Nearly three million people have now tested positive for the virus. The U.S. death toll has topped 131,000. ... More


Washington, July 8 (RHC)-- More than 25,000 signatures have been collected as of Tuesday in the campaign launched in the United States to call for awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Cuban doctors of the Henry Reeve contingent.... More


United Nations, July 8 (RHC)-- A senior UN human rights investigator says the United States’ assassination of top Iranian commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad was an “unlawful” killing in violation of the international law.... More


​​​​​​​Washington, July 8 (RHC)-- In a major victory for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and Indigenous and environmental activists, a judge has ordered the Dakota Access Pipeline be shut down and emptied of all oil in the next 30 days, pending an environmental review. ... More


Washington, July 8 (RHC)-- Thousands of international students enrolled at universities in the United States could face deportation if their schools switch to on-line-only courses in the fall due to the coronavirus pandemic. ... More


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