Miami, September 11 (RHC)-- At least four people have died and nearly six million people are without power in Florida, after Hurricane Irma made landfall on Sunday on the Florida Keys as a Category 4 hurricane. The storm also flooded the streets of downtown Miami, turning the city’s main strip, Brickell Avenue, into a three-foot-high raging river. ... More
Havana, September 10 (RHC)-- Although Hurricane Irma has left Cuba and has made landfall on the U.S. state of Florida, storm surges and high waves Saturday night into Sunday morning have caused coastal flooding in Havana, to an extent never before seen in some areas.... More
Radio Havana Cuba's Alberto D. Perez gives us a play-by-play of how Hurricane Irma affected his weekend.... More
President Raul Castro has issued instructions for the setting up of joint municipal task-forces that could assist the electrical linemen brigades in the repairing of power grids affected across Cuba by the winds of Hurricane Irma.... More
Havana 10 sep (RHC) Hurricane Irma continued to batter Cuba Saturday night. Heavy tidal waves and coastal flooding continue along the western north coast, including the Malecón. ... More
Miami, September 9 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Florida, freeways jammed with cars over the past several days as officials ordered the evacuation of more than a million people -- one the largest evacuations in U.S. history. ... More
Havana, September 8 (RHC)-- Medical collaborators from the Cuban brigades currently serving on Caribbean islands are maintaining daily communication with the country and are prepared to confront the aftermath of powerful Hurricane Irma.... More
Havana, September 8 (RHC) -- The seventh anniversary of the death of Reverend Lucius Walker and the 50th of the organization that the U.S. pastor founded, the Inter-religious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO) Pastors for Peace, were marked at the Cuban Friendship Institute on Thursday.... More
Havana, September 8 (RHC)-- Cuba's First Vice President Miguel Díaz-Canel has received in Havana the Minister of Foreign Affairs of El Salvador, Hugo Martinez Bonilla, on an official visit to our country.... More
Havana, September 8 (RHC)-- A military delegation from Vietnam headed by Deputy Minister of Defense, Colonel General Phan Van Giang, traveled to Cuba on Friday for an official visit.... More
Havana, September 8 (RHC)-- Hurricane Irma, the most powerful Atlantic storm ever recorded, laid waste to parts of the Caribbean overnight, pummeling Turks and Caicos, hammering the Bahamas and taking aim at South Florida, home to millions of residents. ... More
Mexico City, September 8 (RHC)-- In Mexico, the country’s strongest earthquake in a century struck off the west coast early Friday, leveling buildings in the impoverished states of Chiapas and Oaxaca and triggering tsunami warnings across the Pacific. ... More
Washington, September 8 (RHC)-- U.S. President Donald Trump has said that a U.S. military strike against North Korea would be “a very sad day for North Korea.” ... More
Mexico City, September 8 (RHC-teleSUR)-- In the latest attack on journalists in Mexico, Juan Carlos Hernandez Rios, a contributor to La Bandera Noticias, has been shot dead after he left his home in the state of Guanajuato. ... More
Madrid, September 8 (RHC)-- Spanish authorities say lawmakers in the regional Catalonia parliament face criminal prosecution after they endorsed a planned referendum on independence of the region. ... More
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