Havana, September 16 (RHC)-- The Leo Brouwer and Roberto Valera National Music Awards will focus the tribute of the XXXIII International Choir Festival, which will be held in Santiago de Cuba between October 28 and November 3.... More


 Rally for the disappeared students. (Photo: Flickr)

Mexico City, September 16 (RHC)-- In Mexico, the public prosecutors office in Ayotzinapa has announced that they are launching an investigation into public officials who they believe to have been negligent in handling the Ayotzinapa investigation. The investigation into the case of the 43 disappeared students has been criticized from the beginning by the victims' families.... More


Pinar del Río, September 16 (RHC) -- Granma newspaper reports that the first Vice-President of the Council of State and Ministers, Salvador Valdés Mesa, visited recently a plant in Pinar del Río dedicated to the using of rice residuals to generate energy.... More


Havana, September 16 (RHC)-- Granma newspaper reports that the National Center for Genetic Medicine reports that for three consecutive years the infant mortality rate from congenital defects has remained at 0.8 for each 1000 births, the lowest in the history of the country. ... More


Cuba present at French trade fair

Havana, September 16 (RHC)-- Cuba participated over the weekend in the 35th Espace Collectivités professional trade show, in France, with a stand featuring the country's economic and cultural potential. ... More


This satellite image obtained from NOAA/RAMMB, shows Humberto on September 15. (Photo: AFP)

Miami, September 16 (RHC)-- Hurricane Humberto, which gained hurricane strength late Sunday, is expected to drop another 2 inches of rain on the storm-ravaged northwestern Bahamas as it crawls away from the U.S. coast, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said early Monday morning.... More


Thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets for the #NoMoreTrump campaign.  (Photo: Venezuelan Ministry of Communications)

Caracas, September 16 (RHC)-- The Venezuelan government wrapped up the international #NoMoreTrump campaign Sunday as thousands gathered in plazas, communities and neighborhoods of the country to sign the petition calling on the United States to lift its unilateral blockade.... More


Brasilia, September 16 (RHC)-- In his first exclusive interview since he was imprisoned 526 days ago, former Brazilian president Inacio Lula da Silva talks about prison, Latin America’s future and Lava Jato Operation.... More


Cuba, Uruguay and Nicaragua reject TIAR treaty activation.  (Photo: Archive)

Havana, September 16 (RHC)-- The governments of Cuba, Uruguay and Nicaragua have strongly rejected the TIAR treaty activation against Venezuela, which could authorize the use of military force against Caracas government if the countries that are part of the treaty deemed it a threat to security or peace in the region.... More


Havana, September 16 (RHC)--  As the grand finale of a week in which relations between the United States and Cuba further deteriorated, the White House announced Saturday that President Donald Trump extended for another year the validity of the law that establishes the basis of the blockade against the Caribbean island.... More


Tehran, September 16 (RHC)-- Iran says the sale of its properties in Canada as per a court ruling to compensate a group of so-called ‘terror victims’ is an unlawful move that will have consequences for the Ottawa government if not revoked.... More


Tel Aviv, September 16 (RHC)-- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu scrambled for far-right voter support two days before an election, convening his cabinet in the occupied West Bank and having it approve legal status for an unauthorised outpost.... More


The national secretary of the Communist Party of France (PCF), Fabien Roussel. PL Photo

Paris, September 16 (RHC)-- The national secretary of the Communist Party of France (PCF), Fabien Roussel, demanded the end of US hostility towards Cuba and advocated for a campaign in Europe to promote that plea.... More


Cuban Vice President Inés María Chapman speaks at funeral of former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe. PL Photo

Harare, September 15 (RHC)-- Cuban Vice President Inés María Chapman concluded a brief stay in Zimbabwe, where she represented Cuba at the funeral of former President Robert Mugabe.... More


Paris, September 16 (RHC)-- The US government is destroying multilateralism with its aggressive policies without caring about the consequences of its behavior, Cuban lawmaker and intellectual Abel Prieto denounced on Sunday at the Fête de l'Humanité. ... More


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