Cuba’s Camerata Romeu, has joined the campaign #MusicosPorCuba, launched jointly by the Cuban Ministry of Culture and the Cuban Music Institute, in times of the Covid-19 pandemic.... More


Medical staff attend to a patient at the COVID-19 unit at San Juan de Dios hospital, in Guatemala City.  (Photo: AFP)

Washington, June 9 (RHC)-- The total coronavirus infections worldwide now number 7,136,366, and the toll of related deaths has reached 406,902, according to the latest data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.... More


Havana, June 9 (RHC)-- Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel has reiterated his heartfelt admiration and infinite affection for doctors, whom he called "heroes in white coats."... More


Havana, June 9 (RHC)-- The Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodríguez, highlighted that his country is maintaining a successful confrontation with COVID-19, by counting 10 days in a row without deaths.... More


Havana, June 9 (RHC)-- The National Director of Epidemiology of the Cuban Ministry of Public Health, Dr. Francisco Duran, reported that there were 5 new cases of COVID-19, for an total of 2,205 positive cases across the island.  ... More


Geneva, June 9 (RHC)-- The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) urged countries to press on with efforts to contain the novel coronovirus, noting the global situation is worsening.... More


Renowned Cuban essayist and poet, Roberto Fernández Retamar, would have celebrated his ninetieth birthday on June 9th... More


Havana, June 9 (RHC)-- Shortly before the plane that brought home the 52 medical workers who saved lives in Italy landed on Cuban soil, Cuban government leaders checked the situation with COVID-19, as they do everyday.  ... More


Washington, June 8 (RHC)-- U.S. President Donald Trump has visited a factory in Maine making medical swabs for COVID testing.  Trump did not wear a mask while on the factory floor.  The factory owner later said all swabs made during Trump’s visit will be discarded.... More


Cairo, June 8 (RHC)-- The Arab League has reaffirmed its opposition to the Israeli regime’s looming controversial plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank, saying the “reprehensible and illegal” move amounts to a war crime against Palestinians.... More


Sanaa, June 8 (RHC)-- Yemeni women are already losing their lives in childbirth and thousands more will be put at serious risk as reproductive health services in the impoverished country are forced to close due to UN funding cuts, doctors and aid workers warn.... More


Homeless man sleeps next to a garbage container in Buenos Aires, Argentina.  (Photo: EFE)

Buenos Aires, June 8 (RHC)-- Argentina’s health authorities launched a house-to-house operation to search for close contacts of coronavirus-infected persons in the neighborhoods of Buenos Aires, the capital city that is the epicenter of the pandemic in this South American country.... More


Military personnel take part in the unloading operation of U.S. military equipment in Germany, February 2020.  (Photo by AFP)

Warsaw, June 8 (RHC)-- Warsaw has expressed willingness to accommodate more American troops in the country and hoped that a portion of US forces set to be removed from Germany would be reassigned to Poland, a move that would probably draw Russia’s indignation against the backdrop of NATO-related tensions between Moscow and Washington.... More


Kabul, June 8 (RHC)-- Afghanistan is running out of hospital beds as suspected cases of coronavirus surge, officials said, warning "there is a disaster coming" in the impoverished country.... More


An assistant works at the annual Red Square Book Fair in central Moscow.  (Photo: Novosti)

Moscow, June 8 (RHC)-- Hundreds of Moscow residents flocked to an open-air book fair in Red Square, though some publishing houses opted to stay away as city authorities keep most restrictions in place.... More


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