Participants at the Round Table TV progam on Cuba's biotech poroducts to fight COVID-19

Cuba is conducting a clinical trial for a vaccine developed with its own technology and aimed at activating the innate immune system to combat the new coronavirus SARS Cov-2, which causes COVID-19.... More


Photo taken from the tweet of Italian FM @luigidimaio

Rome, April 14 (RHC)-- Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio thanked Cuba on Tuesday for sending a brigade of health workers to support the confrontation of the COVID-19 in the Piedmont region.... More


Tehran, April 14 (RHC)-- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says U.S. imperialism is a virus that is "more dangerous" than the new coronavirus for the international community. ... More


Paris, April 14 (RHC)-- France will remain locked down until at least May 11th, President Emmanuel Macron has revealed, calling on citizens to continue to respect the rules his government has imposed to slow the spread of coronavirus.... More


More than 16,700 people have died crossing the Mediterranean for Europe since 2015, including at least 241 in 2020.  (Photo: EFE)

Tripoli, April 14 (RHC)-- A rubber boat packed with 85 migrants and refugees appears to have capsized after sailing from Lybia while three others carrying 173 people in all are in distress in the Mediterranean Sea, German rescue organizations Sea-Watch and United4Rescue report.... More


Israeli Merkava IV battle tank being transported past the settlement of Mehola in the occupied West Bank. (Photo: AFP)

Cairo, April 14 (RHC)-- The Arab League has raised the alarm about Israel’s policy of expanding its illegal settlements in the Palestinian territories at a time when the whole world is scrambling to rein in the new coronavirus pandemic.... More


Havana, April 13 (RHC)— Dr. Francisco Duran, head of Epidemiology at the Ministry of Public Health urged the Cuban people to keep social distancing and isolation as the main actions to keep the novel coronavirus at bay.... More


Brazilian sanitary cleaning worker.  (Photo: Twitter/@BolsonaroLIX0)

Brasilia, April 13 (RHC)-- Brazilian nurses have disapproved of Jair Bolsonaro's management of the ongoing COVID-19 health crisis, local media reported on Monday.  Doctors and health workers in Sao Paulo joined the critics and rejected the president's handling of COVID-19.  They paid tribute to their colleagues who died during the pandemic and denounced the lack of medical equipment to combat the new coronavirus.... More


"The repercussions of any premature end to the lockdown action are unimaginable," says Nigerian president.  (Photo: Reuters)

Abuja, April 13 (RHC)-- Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has announced a 14-day extension to a lockdown in Lagos, Abuja and Ogun states to combat the coronavirus pandemic.  In a televised address on Monday, Buhari said: "It has become necessary to extend the current restriction of movement" that was set to expire later in the day.... More


London, April 13 (RHC)-- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange fathered two children with a lawyer who was representing him while he was in the Ecuadorian embassy in London fighting extradition, the lawyer told a British newspaper on Sunday.... More


Madrid, April 13 (RHC)-- Staff in food distribution, communications, sanitation and other non-essential sectors are now allowed to go to work in Spain, despite the country’s status as the world’s second-largest COVID-19 hotspot with over 17,000 deaths.... More


Washington, April 13 (RHC)-- Former U.S. President Barack Obama has highlighted “racial” factors defining the COVID-19 victims.  Obama made the comment in a tweet on Monday, further calling for the protection of vulnerable communities.... More


Washington, April 13 (RHC)-- The Donald Trump administration is working to slash the wages of migrant farmworkers, even as it works to send direct aid to farmers and ranchers hurt by the coronavirus pandemic. ... More


Brasilia, April 13 (RHC)-- In Brazil, a study involving chloroquine’s effect on coronavirus patients was stopped after participants developed irregular heart rates, which can increase the risk of potentially fatal arrhythmia. ... More


Washington, April 13 (RHC)-- In Guam, the U.S. Navy says nearly 600 sailors have tested positive for COVID-19 after evacuating the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier. ... More


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