Sports News Roundup Dec. 1

Cuban Richer Perez won the Central American and Caribbean Games' Marathon competition in men's category on Sunday, while Mexican Margarita Hernandez won women's category.... More


The book Seduction of the Look, Photography of the body in Cuba from 1840 to 201 by Rafael Acosta de Arriba will be launched at Havana’s Fine Arts Museum on December 3rd... More


Montevideo, Nov. 29 (RHC) - Ruling party candidate and former president Tabare Vazquez is favored to win Uruguay's runoff election Sunday.... More


Choco, Nov. 29 (RHC)-- The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People's Army (FARC-EP) announced Friday that continued military operations by the Colombian army in the municipality of Choco pose a serious obstacle to a planned humanitarian operation to release General Ruben Darío Alzate and his two companions. ... More


Guerrero, Nov. 29 (RHC)-- The governor of Guerrero State Rogelio Ortega, has now confirmed the kidnapping in July of 30 teenagers in the city of Cocula, as disclosed by the mother of one of the victims.... More


Havana, Nov. 29 (RHC) – The World Health Organization and the Pan-American Health Organization, PAHO, has revealed that physicians and nurses from over 30 nation states of Latin America and the Caribbean will be trained in the handling and treatment of Ebola patients.... More


Amazonas, Nov. 29 (RHC)-- High-ranking government delegations from Venezuela and Colombia are participating in the 3rd Bilateral Meeting on the Drawing up and Implementation of a Joint Protocol for the Prevention and Monitoring of Border Incidents.... More


Quito Hosts UNASUR Festival

Quito, Nov. 29 (RHC)-- A week-long festival opened on Saturday in Quito, Ecuador, as a prelude to the official inauguration of the new headquarters of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR).... More


Sports News Roundup Nov. 29

After an expected rally to overcome Mexico on the medal standings on Friday, Cuba took the lead and is now at the top of the 22nd Central American and Caribbean Games in Veracruz 2014.... More


Havana, November 29 (RHC) Cuban government vice-president Ricardo Cabrisas held talks on Friday, in Havana, with Bahamas´ Transport and Aviation Minister Glenys Hanna Martin, who is in Havana to attend commemorations for the 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries.... More


Havana, November 29 (RHC) Cuban doctor Felix Baez, who got infected with the Ebola virus, continues to make progress each day as revealed in latest medical tests.... More


Havana, November 29 (RHC)—The Cuban Parliament will hold its fourth session on December 19 as officially announced on Friday.... More


Havana, November 29 (RHC) British Royal Navy´s HMS Argyll frigate will call at Havana harbor for an official visit to this city Sunday, November 30, the Cuban Ministry of the Armed Forces announced.... More


Havana, November 29 (RHC) The U.S. Semester at Sea academic program is paying is second visit to Havana on Saturday for a second occasion since the trips resumed in December 2013 after nine years of absence from the Cuban capital as a result of travel restrictions imposed by the former George W. Bush administration.... More


Gaza City, November 29 (RHC)-- A United Nations agency has declared a state of emergency in the besieged Gaza Strip after two days of heavy rains and flooding in the war-ravaged Palestinian enclave. The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said in a statement that hundreds of residents in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City had been evacuated due to the rise of a "storm water lagoon" in the area.... More


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