Kuwait City, September 23 (RHC)-- Cuba's Deputy Health Minister Alfredo González met in Kuwait City with his Kuwaiti counterpart Kaled Sagui and the country's Health Minister Ali Sad Al-Obaidi, with whom he explored new areas for strengthened health cooperation.... More
Havana, September 23 (RHC)-- Criminologists and forensic experts from eleven countries are gathered here in Havana for the 9th International Symposium on Advanced Forensic Techniques in Crime Science Investigations, which began sessions on Wednesday.... More
Camagüey, September 23 (RHC)-- The trade exhibition of the Cuban Congress on Orthopedics and Traumatology was officially inaugurated Wednesday in Camagüey province, with the participation of Cuban and foreign companies that commercialize inputs, medications and technologies for the health discipline.... More
The final of the National Boxing Series will gather in Pinar del Rio province what better and shine the most in local boxing from Thursday until Saturday.... More
Havana, September 23 (RHC)-- Pope Francis sent a message to Cuban President Raul Castro during his flight from Cuba to the United States on Tuesday.... More
Washington, September 23 (RHC)-- U.S. President Barack Obama thanked Pope Francis for his help in reestablishing diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Cuba. During the official welcoming ceremony at the White House on Wednesday morning, the U.S. president expressed his appreciation for the Pope's efforts to begin a new phase of dialogue and cooperation with Cuba. ... More
Havana, September 23 (RHC)-- Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos announced early Wednesday he would make a stop-over in Havana on his way to the United States, in order to meet with peace negotiators. On his Twitter account, the Colombian president said: “Peace is near.”... More
Brussels, September 23 (RHC)-- Interior ministers of the European Union have adopted by majority a resolution to distribute some 120,000 refugees among the member states, much to the dismay of some central and eastern European nations who oppose the mandatory quotas in sharing of the refugee exodus. ... More
Ramallah, September 23 (RHC)-- Palestinian media have released a shocking video showing a young Palestinian woman, shot by Israeli forces, being left to bleed for a long time before being transferred to a hospital, where she reportedly died of her wounds. ... More
Washington, September 23 (RHC)-- The Barack Obama administration has transferred a Guantánamo Bay prisoner who staged a nearly nine-year hunger strike back to his native Saudi Arabia. ... More
Geneva, September 23 (RHC)-- The governor of Okinawa, Japan, has taken his battle against the construction of a new U.S. military base to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. ... More
Paris, September 23 (RHC)-- The leader of France's far-right party National Front (FN) has been summoned to court over comparing French Muslims' street praying to the Nazi occupation during World War II. According to the prosecutor's office in the eastern French city of Lyon, Marine Le Pen will stand trial on October 20th on charges of "incitement to discrimination over people's religious beliefs." ... More
Damascus, September 23 (RHC)-- So-called "moderate" militants trained by the U.S. military have handed over their weapons to terrorists upon entry into Syria. ... More
Washington, September 23 (RHC)-- The commander of the United States' alleged war on Daesh terrorists in Iraq and Syria, is stepping down, officials say. John R. Allen, the Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL, will leave his position in early November, four U.S. State Department officials told Bloomberg on condition of anonymity. ... More
Tokyo, September 23 (RHC)-- A study shows the nuclear disaster at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in 2011 could have been avoided. The study released in the science journal Philosophical Transactions said: “The Fukushima accident was preventable if international best practices and standards had been followed, if there had been international reviews, and had common sense prevailed in the interpretation of preexisting geological and hydrodynamic findings.” ... More
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