Geneva, March 5 (RHC)-- The World Health Organization affirms that the global death rate from the disease caused by the new coronavirus is 3.4% — far deadlier than the seasonal flu. The warning came as the number of coronavirus deaths outside of China surpassed the number inside China for the first time. ... More
San Francisco, March 5 (RHC)-- In climate news, Wells Fargo has ruled out investing in oil and gas drilling in the Arctic, making it the third major U.S. bank to withdraw support for fossil fuel projects in the ecologically delicate region. ... More
Washington, March 5 (RHC)-- In the U.S., a top Democratic lawmaker is demanding answers from a secretive artificial intelligence company over its sale of facial recognition technology to repressive governments including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. ... More
Washington, March 5 (RHC)-- CNN reports that Donald Trump’s new personnel chief is distributing questionnaires to potential political appointees to verify their loyalty to the president. ... More
Panama, March 4 (RHC) Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez arrived in Panama on Wednesday for an official visit. He was received at Tocumen International Airport by the State's Director of Protocol, Miguel Lecaro.... More
Havana, March 4 (RHC) The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and National Coordinator of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) Anayansi Rodríguez, is heading the Cuban delegation that will participate in the First Meeting of National Coordinators of this regional integration mechanism.... More
. Havana, March 4 (RHC)-- Flower offerings from the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, Raul Castro, and the President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel, accompanied this Wednesday the tribute to the victims of the sabotage against the La Coubre steamboat, 60 years after the barbaric crime.... More
Cuba was selected among the world's 25 most popular destinations, according to the Travellers' Choice 2020 awards, organized by the largest travel website TripAdvisor.... More
Havana, March 4 (RHC)--Higher education authorities announced that every student who completes the 12th grade would have guaranteed access to university.... More
Tegucigalpa, March 4 (RHC)-- Four years after the shooting death of Honduran environmentalist Berta Caceres on March 2, 2016, the intellectual authors of the crime remain unpunished, according to popular and indigenous organizations in the Central American country. ... More
Ankara, March 4 (RHC)-- The Turkish government is threatening to unravel the agreement it signed with the European Union in 2016 to stop mass migration, as it expels more than 4 million Syrian refugees to Greece.... More
Dallas, March 4 (RHC)-- The publication Prism reports that over 40 women from Cameroon were transferred to another immigration jail in the United States in retaliation for protesting the conditions of the previous facility where they were being detained.... More
Washington, March 4 (RHC)-- In the U.S., an official at the Interior Department inserted misleading and false information about climate change into at least nine agency reports.... More
Kabul, March 4 (RHC)-- In Afghanistan, the Taliban says it is resuming operations against government forces after the partial truce, which preceded the U.S.-Taliban deal signed over the weekend. ... More
Havana, 4 Mar (RHC)-- Cuba remembers this Wednesday the 60th anniversary of the explosion of the French steamship La Coubre in the Port of Havana; an event denounced as one of the first warlike actions of the United States against the nascent Revolution.... More
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