Port Vila, March 18 (RHC)-- In other news, the death toll from a Category 5 cyclone that tore through the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu has increased to 11, with thousands more displaced.... More


New Delhi, March 18 (Xinhua) -- The world's only solar-powered aircraft Solar Impulse-2 (Si2) will make a stopover in the Indian holy city Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh Wednesday as part of its first global flight, said organizers.... More


MELBOURNE, March 18 (Xinhua) -- A team of Australian researchers are a step closer to finding a vaccine to prevent malaria, after discovering patterns in the human immune system that helps fight the disease in its early stages.... More


SYDNEY, March 18 (Xinhua) -- Some of the world's top alcohol and drug experts gathered at a conference in Brisbane, Australia, on Wednesday to share ideas on how to address common problems associated with substance abuse.... More


Caracas, March 18 (RHC) – Cuban President Raul Castro said that the arbitrary, aggressive and groundless executive order issued by U.S. President Barack Obama against the government of Venezuela, which declared the South American country a threat to U.S. national security, reveals that the United States is capable of sacrificing peace and the course of hemispheric relations in the interest of domination and its domestic policy.... More


Caracas, March 18 (RHC) – The countries with the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our Americas (ALBA) has urged U.S. President Barack Obama to repeal the executive order issued against Venezuela, calling it a threat to its sovereignty.... More


Havana, Mar 18, (RHC), – The Canada Cuba-Cruise Company, which organizes trips to the island, announced on Tuesday a new itinerary for the 2015-2016 season with a two-day stay in Havana.... More


Monrovia, March 18 (RHC) – Liberian authorities acknowledged the work carried out by the Henry Reeve Cuban medical brigade that fought the Ebola Virus in that African nation, and which along with other forces, have helped Liberia advance towards its declaration as a country free of Ebola.... More


Luanda, March 18 (RHC) — The Vice Presidents of Angola, Manuel Domingos Vicente, and Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, met on Tuesday afternoon, in Luanda, to discuss cooperation between the two countries.... More


Moscow, March 18, (RHC), — The European Union and Cuba have already agreed on many points of a prospective Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement, a source in the European Commission told Sputnik on Wednesday.... More


Havana, March 18, (RHC) – The United States should remove Cuba from the list of countries allegedly sponsoring terrorism and return the Guantánamo naval base to Cuba, says Konstantin Kosachyov, the head of the Russian Federation Council international affairs committee.... More


Havana, March 18, (RHC), – The latest talks between Cuba and the United States on restoring diplomatic relations concluded on Monday and took place in a “professional climate”, the Cuban Foreign Ministry said in a statement Wednesday.... More


Beijing, Mar 18, (RHC), -- Dario Delgado, Attorney General of the Republic of Cuba, held meetings on Wednesday with representatives of the Ministry of Justice and the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China (CCP), during the second day of his official visit to China.... More


New York, March 18 (RHC) – The first direct charter flights between New York City and Cuba are now taking off, the Associated Press reports.... More


The Declaration of the Extraordinary Summit of the Heads of States and Government of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – People's Commerce Treaty (ALBA – TCP) reads as follows in an unoffical translation:... More


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