Paris, June 22 (RHC)-- The Coordination of Cubans Residing in France has repudiated the intention of three U.S. senators to affect the island's medical cooperation with other countries, a position it called "unseemly and political."... More


Beijing, June 21 (RHC)-- China banned imports from a top U.S. poultry producer and ordered a Beijing Pepsi factory to close Sunday as authorites clamped down on food production and distribution amid a new coronavirus cluster in the capital.... More


Geneva, June 21 (RHC)-- The World Health Organization has reported the largest single-day increase in coronavirus cases by its count, at more than 183,000 new cases in the latest 24 hours.... More


Washington, June 21 (RHC)-- The U.S. Air Force inspector general has launched a probe into the use of military surveillance airplanes to monitor protesters in Washington, D.C., and Minneapolis. ... More


Washington, June 21 (RHC)-- One of the highest-ranking African Americans in the Trump administration has resigned in protest.  On Thursday, Mary Elizabeth Taylor submitted her resignation as the assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs. ... More


New York, June 21 (RHC)-- In the U.S., another 1.5 million people filed unemployment claims last week, bringing the total to over 45 million since the coronavirus crisis began.  This marks the 13th week in a row in which more than a million people filed for unemployment. ... More


Brasilia, June 21 (RHC)-- Iconic Amazon Indigenous Kayapó Chief Paulinho Paiakan has died of COVID-19 at the age of 66.  Paiakan was a lifelong defender of the Amazon rainforest who in the 1980s led the resistance against the Belo Monte hydroelectric project, an environmentally destructive massive complex of dams planned to be built on the Xingu River in the heart of the Amazon. ... More


Montevideo, June 21 (RHC)-- The president of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), Fernando González, thanked the Uruguayan people today for their solidarity and their spirit of struggle and unity, in a letter addressed to the Cuban Solidarity Movement, during a meeting at the diplomatic headquarters in Uruguay.... More


San Salvador, June 21 (RHC)-- Caribbean diplomat Ronald Sanders today criticized the growing hostility of the United States against Cuba's medical cooperation, aggravated at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.... More


Beijing, June 21 (RHC)-- The Chinese capital is capable of screening almost one million people a day for the coronavirus, an official said, as testing continued across the city to try to contain the spread of a fresh outbreak.... More


Madrid, June 21 (RHC)-- Passengers wearing masks and wheeling suitcases arrived at Madrid's main airport and French citizens crossed the border to buy bargain alcohol and tobacco on Sunday as Spain opened its borders to most European countries and ended a state of emergency imposed to contain COVID-19.... More


Havana, June 21 (RHC)-- The statistics that are religiously reported every morning show a nation with remarkably low rates in the battle against COVID-19, although the battle for life continues.... More


Havana, June 21 (RHC)-- The National Director of Epidemiology of the Cuban Ministry of Public Health, Dr. Francisco Duran, reported that there were three new cases detected of COVID-19, for a total of 2,312 positive cases across the island.  ... More


Havana, June 21 (RHC) -- With similarities and a decades-long relationship that continues today, Cuba and Egypt could be brought closer through music, radio and the spreading of content on each other... More


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Ciego de Ávila, June 21 (RHC)-- Salvador Valdés Mesa, Vice President of the Republic of Cuba, during a visit to Ciego de Ávila province, called for planting more sugarcane and thinking less about the difficulties and unfulfillable commitments.... More


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