Harare, June 26 (RHC) –- Cuban Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Rogelio Sierra, wrapped up a visit to Zimbabwe, where he ratified the historic bonds of friendship and cooperation between Cuba and the African nation.... More
Kingston, June 26 (RHC) –- Cuba has granted full medical scholarships to eight Jamaican students, including one who is of Cuban descent, the Jamaica Observer reports.... More
Havana, June 26 (RHC) –- Russia and Cuba are in the final stage of coordinating new energy and steel projects, according to Russian Ambassador to Cuba, Mikhail Kamynin.... More
Havana, June 26 (RHC) -– The delegation of the city of Havana to the X Congress of the Young Communist League (UJC) was constituted on Thursday during a political act at the Cacahual Mausoleum.... More
Havana, June 26 (RHC) -- Cuban prima ballerina Viengsay Valdes on Thursday received the Lorna Burdsall Dance Award, the most prestigious honor granted by the performing arts section of the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC).... More
Asunción, June 26 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The cattle company Itapoti is invading ancestral lands of indigenous peoples and seriously threatening their survival, denounced an environmental organization on Thursday. ... More
Santo Domingo, June 26 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Caribbean nations in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) have called on the Dominican Republic’s government to immediately stop the planned deportation of people of Haitian descent. ... More
Tegucigalpa, June 26 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Femicides in Honduras are epidemic with 12 women dying from gender-based violence out of every 100,000 residents, said the local Women’s Rights Center in a new study. ... More
Bogota, June 26 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Top generals in the Colombian army, which local Senator Ivan Cepeda had long ago denounced, have been implicated in a long-running “false positives” military scandal, according to a new report. ... More
Lima, June 26 (teleSUR-RHC) Free Trade Agreements are at fault for the unhealthy processed potatoes that Peru is importing and that are taking market space from local small farmers, said a Peruvian analyst on Thursday, adding that the state was not “sovereign.” ... More
Paraguay's president Horacio Cartes ratified on Thursday a law removing impunity from the South American confederation of soccer CONMEBOL and thus allowing investigators to enter the premises and search for documents and material related to corruption. A draft of the law was presented in the country's congress a few days after United States investigators launched a probe into the international soccer body FIFA last month, issuing dozens of arrests warrants for high-level figures within the organization. So far, 14 current and former officials within FIFA have been indicted over corruption charges involving more than $150 million in bribes. ... More
Mexico, June 26 (teleSUR-RHC) Extreme inequality has increased in Mexico while the economy is stagnant, concentrating almost half of the country's wealth in the hands of its one percent elite, according to a new Oxfam report. ... More
Economy and Planning Minister Marino Murillo confirmed that Cuba's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) will grow above 4% in the first half of 2015.... More
Cuban cyclist Lisandra Guerra participates in competitions giving points for the Olympic track cycling ranking, while training in Germany for the Pan-American Games in Toronto from July 10th to 26th.... More
Johannesburg, June 25 (RHC) -- The five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters are touring historic places of interest today in the South African province of Gauteng, after visiting the city of Cape Town, where they were welcomed by lawmakers at the national parliament.... More
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