Homero Acosta (ACNPhoto)

Havana, December 11 (RHC)--The Secretary of the National Assembly of People's Power (Cuban Parliament) and of the Council of State, Homero Acosta, described this Tuesday the work agenda of the fourth ordinary session to be held next week.... More


Buenos Aires, December 11 (RHC)-- The Union of Cuban Residents in Argentina (URCA), which brings together some 500 fellow countrymen and women out of a total of more than 4,000 based in the South Anerican nation, met Tuesday evening with President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez.... More


Buenos Aires, December 10 (RHC)-- Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel and his delegation attended the inauguration of the elected president of Argentina, Alberto Fernandez, and Vice President Cristina Fernandez on Tuesday.... More


Havana, December 10 (RHC)--Participants at a special broadcast of Radio Havana Cuba's English service aired on Tuesday stressed the universal, interdependent, and interrelated nature of human rights and that not one of them is better or more important than the others.... More


United Nations, December 10 (RHC)-- The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has warned that inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean can cause greater social crises, as evident by the popular protests in several countries in the region.... More


Madrid, December 10 (RHC)-- In Madrid, more than 1,000 people gathered for a peaceful protest near a shelter for unaccompanied refugee teenagers who have been targeted by frequent verbal and physical attacks by right-wing politicians and street mobs. ... More


Los Angeles, December 10 (RHC)-- A Methodist church in the U.S. state of California has unveiled a nativity scene depicting Jesus, Mary and Joseph as refugees in cages. ... More


Israeli foreign minister Israel Katz speaks at conference in Rome.  (Photo: AP)

Rome, December 10 (RHC)-- Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz has threatened a military operation against Iran with the help of the United States, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.   Katz said Israeli bombing in Iran was "an option," making the most brazen threat in years in an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera Saturday on the sidelines of the Mediterranean Dialogues (MED) conference in Rome. ... More


A child receives free polio vaccine during mass vaccination program in the Philippines. (Photo: Reuters)

Manila, December 10 (RHC)-- A three-month-old Malaysian infant has been diagnosed with polio, the first case reported in the country in nearly three decades, a top health official said on Sunday.  The baby boy from Tuaran in Malaysia's Sabah state on Borneo island tested positive for polio on Friday after being admitted to hospital with a fever and muscle weakness, Director General of Health Noor Hisham Abdullah said in a statement.... More


Fernando Rojas, Marcia Leiseca, Alpidio Alonso, Abel Prieto and María Elena Salgado

Havana, December 10 (RHC)-- Former Minister of Culture, writer and essayist Abel Prieto Jiménez, was presented on Monday as the new president of the Casa de las Americas.... More


Havana, December 10 (RHC)—Radio Havana Cuba's English language service will air an hour-long special program this Tuesday, December 10, at 15:00 hours local time, 20:00 hours UTC, on the occasion on Human Rights Day. ... More


Buenos Aires, December 9 (RHC)-- With the presence of Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, a ceremony of Solidarity with Cuba began in the Aula Magna of the University of Buenos Aires' Faculty of Exact Sciences.... More


Havana, December 9 (RHC)-- Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla expressed his rejection of the ban on commercial flights from the United States to Cuba, except those bound to Havana, which will come into effect Tuesday, just as the world celebrates International Human Rights Day.... More


Sanaa, December 9 (RHC)-- After 1,700 days of a Saudi-led war on impoverished Yemen, more than 3,600 children have been killed, 800 paralyzed and 400,000 others suffer from malnutrition.  According to a report released by the Yemeni-based Organization for Women and Children’s Rights, 7,500 children have fallen victim to the ongoing Saudi-led war since its start in March 2015.... More


Tehran, December 9 (RHC)-- Iran's President Hassan Rouhani says his administration is planning to bolster the infrastructure for launching the National Information Network (NIN) so that it would become so strong as to obviate the need for taking advantage of foreign information networks.... More


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