Havana, June 30 (RHC) –- Control and supervision actions carried out in different areas of Cuban economy during the first half of the year will be on the spotlight of the Cuban Parliament’s ten working commissions in upcoming sessions Wednesday and Thursday at Havana’s International Convention Center. ... More


Havana, June 30 (RHC) –- Havana’s Provincial Court has declared a penal process against Canadian entrepreneurs and former Cuban officials ready for sentencing with the prosecution demanding from eight to 20 prison years for the accused, plus a 91-million dollar compensation for the damage inflicted to Cuban economic and tax entities. ... More


New York, June 30 (RHC) -- BNP Paribas' board of directors approved over the weekend a settlement with US authorities to pay a record $9 billion fine to avoid being tried for violating U.S. economic sanctions of third countries.... More


Havana, June 30 (RHC) -– The Cuban people and government pay tribute today to Reserve Army Corps General Sixto Batista Santana, who passed away Sunday in Havana at the age of 82.... More


Havana, June 30 (RHC) – The Argentinean school boat Liberty Frigate will call at Havana harbor on official visit Tuesday, July 1st, Granma newspaper reported.... More


Havana, June 30 (RHC) –- Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has praised the national program known as More Doctors, being implemented by 14,462 medical doctors. She noted that more than 11,000 of those doctors are Cubans, offering their services in the South American nation following an accord signed between the Pan-American Health Organization and the Brazilian government.... More


Baghdad, June 28 (RHC) – The Iraqi army, backed by thousands of tribal gunmen and volunteer forces, has retaken full control of the northern city of Tikrit from the Takfiri militants of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). ... More


Santiago de Chile, June 28 (PL-RHC) -- Chilean President Michelle Bachelet meets Monday with her U.S. counterpart, Barack Obama, in Washington. ... More


Havana, June 28 (RHC) – Cancer is considered the main obstacle for Cubans in reaching 80 years of age, said the director of the Havana-based Molecular Immunology Center Doctor, Agustin Lage.... More


Havana, June 28, (RHC), – The First International Convention of Cuban Industry closed on Friday after achieving strategic alliances to develop new local products that will replace costly imports, said Jorge Luis Suarez, member of the organizing committee.... More


Gaza City, June 28 (RHC)-- At least two Palestinians have been killed and several others injured in an Israeli drone strike on the besieged Gaza Strip.... More


Islamabad, June 28, (RHC), – At least 17 Pro-Taliban militants have been killed in the Pakistani army’s most recent offensive on militant hideouts in the country’s tribal region. ... More


Havana, June 28, (RHC), – Cuban hero, Fernando Gonzalez, who was recently released from a US Federal prison, said in Havana that he will keep on with the struggle for the freedom of three of his compatriots still imprisoned in the United States.... More


Quito, June 28 (PL-RHC), -- Ecuador managed to destroy 4 million marijuana and some two million poppy plants between 2004-2013; therefore the United Nations declared the country free from illegal drug crops, according to a report presented in Quito.... More


Moscow, June 28, (RHC), – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has accused the United States of encouraging Ukraine to challenge Moscow and heavily weighing in on the European Union.... More


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