Geneva, June 10 (RHC)-- The World Health Organization has recommended Pakistani authorities to reimpose "intermittent lockdowns" of targeted areas, stating the country did not meet the global body's conditions for lifting restrictions.... More
Berlin, June 10 (RHC)-- The leaders of France, Germany and four other EU member states have said Europe has fallen short against the coronavirus outbreak and urged Brussels to consider ways to better prepare for the next pandemic.... More
Geneva, June 10 (RHC)-- The World Health Organization's regional director for the Americas Carissa Etienne has said that data has raised concerns that coronavirus cases are surging in new places in Latin America as some areas show "exponential" rises.... More
Paris, June 10 (RHC)-- The Eiffel Tower, one of the most visited sites in Paris, will reopen to the public on June 25th -- more than three months after closing due to the lockdown.... More
Nairobi, June 10 (RHC)-- The pandemic has put Kenya's goal of ending female genital mutilation (FGM) by 2022 in jeopardy, campaigners against the practice warned, amid reports of "mass cuttings" involving hundreds of girls being held while schools are closed.... More
Dubai, June 10 (RHC)-- Emirates Airlines has laid off hundreds of pilots and thousands of cabin crew as it manages a cash crunch, five company sources have said.... More
New York, June 10 (RHC)-- The coronavirus crisis will lead the airline industry into record annual losses of $84 billion as 2020 will be marked as the "worst year in the history of aviation", the sector's main global body has predicted.... More
Washington, June 10 (RHC)-- The United States Navy is working to ban the Confederate battle flag from all public spaces on Navy installations, ships and aircraft, the Navy announced, as the military and the country as a whole grapple with questions about racial inequality.... More
Washington, June 10 (RHC)-- Officials at the Pentagon have signaled that they were open to starting a discussion about changing the names of 10 military bases named for Confederate generals from the U.S. Civil War era.... More
Jackson, June 10 (RHC)-- A bi-partisan group of lawmakers in the southern state of Mississippi have begun drafting a resolution that would change that state's flag -- the last in the United States that incorporates the Confederate battle emblem.... More
Havana, June 10 (RHC)-- Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel reiterated his government's willingness to promote collaboration with the members of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People's Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP).... More
Havana, June 10 (RHC)-- Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel spoke on Wednesday during the High Level Conference on Economy, Finance and Trade in the framework of the COVID-19, convened by the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of America-Treaty of Commerce (ALBA-TCP).... More
Cuba’s digital platform Tempo Cubano paid homage to Cuban composer and percussionist Enrique Bonne, on occasion of his 94th birthday this June 15th. Tempo Cubano streamed the album ‘Enrique Bonne entre la trova y el son.’ ... More
Cuban artists are participating in the 2020 Latin Alternative Music Conference, which is being held entirely online this year due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.... More
New York, June 10 (RHC)-- Coronavirus cases are continuing to soar across the United States as the death toll tops 112,000. The Washington Post reports COVID-19 hospitalizations are increasing in at least nine states following the reopening of businesses. ... More
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