Cuba's Mariel Special Development Zone is now one of the main drivers of the economy and aims to attract half a billion U.S. dollars in foreign investment each year, an official said.... More
Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) on Friday said that releasing radioactive water from the disaster-hit Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean would be a preferable option than releasing it into the atmosphere. ... More
On Thursday, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a novel coronavirus outbreak that originated in Wuhan, China, a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). ... More
Holguin, (RHC) - Fatal day lived the defending Champion Oleiny Linares in the Cuban Chess Championship, who had five wins and just one equality during her first date in the city of Holguin.... More
Havana, (RHC) - The Cuban Arlenis Sierra crossed tenth this Thursday in the Torquay race, held in a circuit in Melbourne, Australia, in which the local Brodie Chapman, of the Aquitaine Futuroscope team, from France, managed to specify a break that granted her the victory in 106.4 kilometres.... More
Bogota, January 31 (RHC)-- Colombia’s former rebel group, FARC -- now called the Common Revolutionary Alternative Force -- has denounced the execution of an extermination plan against former guerrilla fighters who are settled in the Ituango Municipality, in Antioquia.... More
San Diego, January 31 (RHC)-- Social activists gathered in San Diego, California, to protest against the U.S. Migration Protection Protocols (MPP) program due to human rights abuses occurring in the places to which migrants are sent.... More
San Salvador, January 31 (RHC)-- Retired Salvadoran General Juan Rafael Bustillo has acknowledged for the first time that elite United States-trained forces were responsible for carrying out the 1981 El Mozote massacre in which nearly 1,000 unarmed villagers were killed. Most of those tortured and murdered by the U.S.-backed troops were women and children.... More
Athens, January 31 (RHC)-- Greece is planning to install a floating fence on the Aegean Sea to block migrants from reaching its islands' shores through Turkey. According to Greek government officials, Athens wants to build a 2.7-kilometer-long net-like barrier near the island of Lesbos, where the overcrowded Moria camp operates.... More
New York, January 31 (RHC)-- Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has sharply disagreed with U.S. President Donald Trump’s characterization of his country's current state of the economy, saying they are just wrong and in line with his other lies and misrepresentations.... More
Geneva, January 31 (RHC)-- The International Labor Organization (ILO) has expressed concern over the alarming level of unemployment among youngsters in Latin America, where one out of five is lacking a job.... More
Washington, January 31 (RHC)-- U.S. President Donald Trump’s allies are trying to win over Black voters by offering envelopes of cash at pro-Trump events around the country.... More
New York, January 31 (RHC)-- In the United States, the publisher Flatiron Books has canceled the author tour of the controversial novel “American Dirt,” after the book faced massive criticism and backlash for its stereotypical and inaccurate portrayal of Mexicans and the current migration crisis.... More
Artemisa, January 31 (RHC)-- The province of Artemisa is gaining in organization and creating a more coherent and comprehensive work system, the president of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, said at the closing of the second government visit to the western territory... More
Havana, January 31 (RHC)-- The rector of the University of Computer Science (UCI), Walter Baluja García, and Claudio Viqueira López, president of the Sociedad Mercantil Telefónica Antillana S.A., led Thursday the act of incorporation of the Mercantile Society that gives legal life to the Scientific and Technological Park of Havana (3CE).... More
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