Havana, April 30 (RHC) -– Nearly one million Cubans are expected to march on tomorrow at Havana's Revolution Square, main venue of the celebration for International Workers' Day.... More


Havana, April 30 (RHC) –- All 295 high schools and 395 polytechnic institutes in Cuba will be connected to the Internet during the next school year, according to the Cuban Education Ministry.... More


Havana, April 30 (RHC-VOV) -- The head of the Party Central Committee's Commission for External Relations Hoang Binh Quan on Thursday welcomed Jose Ramon Balaguer Cabrera, the Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (CPC) and Head of its International Relations Department.... More


Havana, April 30 (RHC) -- Cuba will present the final results of an effectiveness study on an advanced lung cancer vaccine during an international workshop on May 12th and 13th.... More


Havana, April 30 (RHC) –- The signing of accords calculated at some 400 million dollars was a major result of a Cuba-UK business forum held in Havana since Tuesday in an effort to identify areas of mutual commercial interest. ... More


Nashville, April 30 (RHC) -- The Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority is planning a connecting flight to Cuba, airport officials told the Tennessean.... More


Holguin, April 30 (RHC) -- The Oscar Lucero Moya University of Holguin renewed on Tuesday an international cooperation agreement with the University of Western Ontario, Canada, during the second day of the 7th International Scientific Conference in that Cuban university. ... More


Bogota, April 30 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Teachers in Colombia rejected a proposal on Wednesday to end their current strike and warned that protests will intensify in coming days. ... More


Caracas, April 30 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is one of the world's most followed heads of state on Twitter, according to a study. ... More


Santo Domingo, April 30 (teleSUR-RHC)-- A group of about 50 Dominicans sent President Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress a letter asking them to publicly apologized for the U.S. invasion of the Caribbean nation in 1965 and the 8,000 deaths it caused. ... More


Buenos Aires, April 30 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Over 30,000 doctors and health professionals in Argentina are the latest to add their voice to the fight against Monsanto, asking the federal government to ban its products after recent studies found they may contain carcinogens, according to press reports on Tuesday. ... More


Santiago de Chile, April 30 (EFE-RHC)-- Concerned by the disrepute caused by scandals in Chile, which until recently had been synonymous with transparency and integrity, President Michelle Bachelet has announced a raft of rigid new anti-corruption measures for politics and trade, including a proposal for a new fully democratic constitution.... More


US writer Toba Singer presented a book on the father of the Cuban ballet school, Fernando Alonso, at the Central Library in San Francisco in the United States... More


Sports News Roundup April 29

The top teams and players of the recently concluded 54th National Baseball Series are being recognized today in the Cuban Baseball Gala, with a stage in the Sports City Coliseum here in Havana.... More


Kathmandu, April 29 (RHC)-- The death toll from a 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Nepal has topped 5,000 with twice that number injured. Aid has reportedly finally reached an area near the epicenter for the first time, four days after the earthquake struck. Remote villages remain cut off from needed supplies. ... More


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