Sports News Roundup June 26

The Cuban Baseball Federation (CBF) has pre-selected 44 players to form the lineup that will play an annual five-game series against a U.S. university team from July 23-27 in two provinces of western Cuba.... More


Buenos Aires, June 26 (PL-RHC) -- Latin America has joined Argentina in the dispute over so-called “vulture funds” and called for unity to avoid the plundering of natural resources in the region.... More


Baghdad, June 26 (RHC)-- Sunni militants have seized another Iraqi town just an hour from the capital Baghdad. Mansouriyat al-Jabal is home to four natural gas fields and is the latest in the north and west to fall under militant control.... More


United Nations, June 26 (Xinhua-RHC) -- Argentinian Minister of Economy Axel Kichillof said on Wednesday that the South American nation's financial state is "extremely serious."... More


Abuja, June 26 (RHC)-- At least 21 people have been killed and 17 wounded in a bombing at a shopping mall in the Nigerian capital of Abuja. The Nigerian government has blamed Boko Haram militants.... More


Havana, June 26 (RHC) –- Cuban President Raul Castro has met with visiting Belorussian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei to address the current state of diplomatic relations between both countries. ... More


Havana, June 26 (RHC) – The Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis Denzil Douglas wrapped up his official visit to Cuba this Thursday, after completing a busy agenda of diplomatic activities which included official talks with Cuban President Raul Castro. ... More


Havana, June 26 (RHC) -- The Minister of Foreign Affairs for Belarus, Vladimir Makei, expressed his categorical rejection of the United States government's hostile policy towards Cuba, particularly the over 50-year-long economic blockade against the Caribbean island.... More


Havana, June 26 (PL-RHC) -- The newest developments in the world of refrigeration, air conditioning and renewable energy are on the agenda at a conference on the subject that began Wednesday.... More


Six internationally awarded films produced from 2011 to 2013 make up the German Film Festival that kicked off in Havana’s Charles Chaplin Theater on Wednesday, July 25th.... More


Sports News Roundup June 25

The Baseball Federation of Cuba announced at a press conference the preselection to start trainings at the Victoria de Giron stadium on Wednesday with a view to face friendly caps against the United States' baseball college selection in July.... More


Caracas, June 24 (Xinhua-RHC) -- The Latin American Integration Association (ALADI) will work with the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) to combat hunger and poverty in the region, ALADI Secretary General Carlos Alberto Alvarez said Tuesday.... More


Beijing, June 25 (PL-RHC) -- The upcoming visit to Cuba of President Xi Jinping will further deepen bilateral political ties and strengthen economic and friendship collaboration between the leaders of both countries.... More


Baghdad, June 25 (RHC)-- Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has rejected U.S. and other foreign calls for a more inclusive government as a "coup." Maliki spoke earlier today following the departure of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who had visited Baghdad and the northern Kurdish region to press for a reconciliation agreement between Iraqi leaers. ... More


Guatemala, June 25 (PL-RHC) -- The issue of immigrant children detained in the United States will be taken to the 43rd Ordinary Summit of Heads of State of the Central American Integration System (SICA) to be held Friday in the Dominican Republic.... More


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