Caracas, March 5 (RHC)-- Venezuela's National Constituent Assembly (ANC) President Diosdado Cabello Wednesday reported that the alleged assassination attempt against Juan Guaido was staged by those who support the opposition lawmaker and carried out by a person who received $400 dollars for his performance.... More
As three more countries confirmed their first cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday and the caseload continued to spike in worst-hit regions, the World Health Organization (WHO) called for early and aggressive measures to break the chains of transmission worldwide.... More
Geneva, March 5 (RHC)-- The World Health Organization is warning the number of cases of COVID-19 caused by coronavirus is approaching 100,000 worldwide, with more than 3,100 deaths due to the illness. Most of the deaths and infections have occurred in China, where health officials reported 139 new cases and 31 new deaths Wednesday. ... More
Washington, March 5 (RHC)-- The World Health Organization announced that the global death rate from the disease caused by the new coronavirus is 3.4% — far deadlier than the seasonal flu. But the very next day, President Donald Trump said he had a “hunch” the number was actually much lower. ... More
Damascus, March 5 (RHC)-- Syrian air defenses have intercepted several Israeli missiles over Quneitra province in the country's southwest and the central province of Homs, reports say. "At 00:30 on Thursday our air defense monitored Israeli warplanes coming from northern occupied Palestine towards Sidon, and several missiles were fired from Lebanese airspace towards the central area," Syria's official news agency SANA quoted a military source as saying.... More
Students from the Mariana de Gonitch Singing Academy will begin a tour of Havana neighborhoods, to pay tribute to the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) on the occasion of its 60th anniversary, and especially to the FMC founder, the late Vilma Espin Guillois.... More
Buenos Aires, March 5 (RHC)-- Argentinean activist and human rights defender Adolfo Perez Esquivel announced that he has nominated the former Bolivian president, Evo Morales, for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize.... More
Buenos Aires, March 5 (RHC)-- Bolivia's former president Evo Morales has expressed his concern about a new coup d'etat against his party, Movement to Socialism, in the case of a new electoral victory next May.... More
Mexico City, March 5 (RHC)-- In Mexico, feminists are calling for a national strike on March 9th, one day after International Women’s Day, to protest skyrocketing gender-based violence in the country. Calls for a national strike are being led by the Mexican feminist group Witches of the Sea.... More
The 19th edition of the Drum Festival Guillermo Barreto in memoriam will be held March 23rd through the 29th in Havana, sponsored by the National Center for Popular Music.... More
The 18th edition of the International Documentary Film Festival Santiago Álvarez in memoriam begins March 6th and runs through the 12th in the eastern Cuban city of Santiago de Cuba. This year’s festival is dedicated to Santiago de Cuba on its 505th anniversary, being founded by Spanish conqueror Diego Velázquez in 1515, and has Canada as guest country of honor.... More
The children's theater company La Colmenita (The Little Beehive) celebrated its 30th anniversary with the performance of its play 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' on February 29 and March 1 at Havana's Karl Marx Theater.... More
Havana, March 5th (RHC)--Seven years after the death of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez, intellectuals, diplomats, historians, students, and activists from Venezuela and Cuba remembered in Havana the revolutionary legacy of the comandante.... More
Havana, March 5 (RHC)-- Defending the rights of hearing-impaired people to a healthier life where Cuban Sign Language is the main language, is one of the elements that centered the debates of the V Congress of the National Association of the Deaf (ANSOC), which concluded on Wednesday.... More
Ottawa, March 5 (RHC)-- The First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, Marcelino Medina, reported that delegations from the island and Canada began consultations between the two countries on the 75th anniversary of the diplomatic ties between the two nations.... More
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