Quito, February 24 (RHC-teleSUR) -- Ecuador's President Rafael Correa has announced a measure to cut his own salary and those of public servants earning more than US$6,000 per month by 5 to 10 percent, to help finance the hiring of 2,187 medical professionals and programs to combat maternal mortality. ... More
London, February 24 (RHC)-- A new study reveals that 20 million people are living in poverty in the United Kingdom. The situation has been exposed in a new book called “Breadline Britain,” which shows poverty has doubled since 1983, and is set to get worse over the next five years. ... More
Asunción, February 24 (RHC-EFE) – Pope Francis will visit Paraguay from July 10-12 on a brief trip to South America that will also include stops in Bolivia and Ecuador, the head of the Tourism Secretariat, Marcela Bacigalupo, announced on Monday, predicting a heavy influx of foreigners to the country.... More
Havana, February 24 (RHC-teleSUR) -- A Cuban medical researcher refuted the coverage that perpetuated disparaging myths about the island nation, by Miami-based media of an international study on the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) released earlier this month.... More
Havana, February 24 (RHC) -– Cubans are commemorating the 120th anniversary of the resumption of the independence war against Spanish colonial rule.... More
Havana, February 24 (RHC) -– Cuba's Communist Party has agreed to hold the VII Party Congress next year and approve a new electoral law, local media said. The holding of the Party congress in April 2016 was announced in Tuesday morning's edition of Granma newspaper.... More
Washington, February 24 (RHC) – A ruling this week by the U.S. Supreme Court favored Cuba in litigation underway for several years against an American company, which was illegally marketing Dominican cigars under the Cuban brand Cohiba.... More
Havana, February 24 (RHC) -– Cuban President Raul Castro and U.S. Vice President Joe Biden are among the guests expected at the inauguration of Uruguayan President Tabaré Vázquez this coming Sunday in Montevideo.... More
Havana, February 24 (RHC) –- Cuban President Raul Castro has congratulated the children's group La Colmenita on its 25th anniversary.... More
Washington, February 24 (RHC) -- U.S. Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro, following her recent trip to Cuba as part of a Democratic congressional delegation, said it is in the best interests of both countries to move toward normalizing relations.... More
St Louis, February 24 (RHC-AP) -– Missouri’s U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill says she supports legislation to end the U.S. economic blockade against Havana. The Democrat affirmed her support of opening trade on Monday following her recent trip to the country.... More
Panama City, February 24 (RHC-Xinhua) -- Panama has seized cocaine at a port in the northern province of Colon worth US$70 million on the black market, local authorities said Monday.... More
Gaborone, February 24 (RHC-AllAfrica) -– Cuban Ambassador to Botswana, Juan Carlos Arenciba Corrales, says his government is willing to help Botswana fight against malaria especially in Ngamiland district which has a high prevalence of the disease.... More
Lima, February 24 (NNN-EFE) –- Beatings and other forms of mistreatment to discipline children are widely accepted in Peru and activists say it is vital to amend current law that effectively condones violent punishment.... More
A scientific high-point, is the discovery in 1881 by Dr. Carlos J. Finlay Barres (1833-1915) of the metaxenic contagion theory of disease, a finding that was decades ahead of the scientific thinking of the time.... More
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