La Paz, May 10 (RHC) – Bolivian President Evo Morales, upon returning to his country from a tour of Cuba and Costa Rica, said in a public address that during his meeting in Havana with President Raul Castro, they agreed to develop a tight collaboration in the pharmaceutical industry to counter dependence on international corporations.... More


Havana, May 10 (RHC) – South Africa considers of great importance bilateral relations of friendship and cooperation with Cuba and is willing to keep strengthening such links at all levels, said South African ambassador to Havana Naptal Manana during a ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of the end of apartheid and the establishment of bilateral diplomatic relations with the island.... More


Havana, May 10 (RHC) – Cuba has been acknowledged this week for its fulfillment of hunger eradication goals set by the United Nations -- along with Chile, Argentina, Barbados, the Dominican Republic and Venezuela -- during the 33rd Regional Conference of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).... More


Havana, May 10 (RHC, – The president of Vietnam's Central Bank Doan Hoai Anh said in Havana that Cuba has great potential to attract foreign investment and that many Vietnamese businesses are interested getting involved, given the opportunities opening here with the update of the island's economic model.... More


Havana, May 9 (RHC) –- Cuban President Raul Castro received on Thursday evening Bolivian head of state Evo Morales, who paid a brief visit to the island. ... More


Moscow, May 9 (RHC) –- The Russian Foreign Ministry said the U.S. State Department’s decision to put Cuba on the list of countries that supposedly support terrorism was unmotivated.... More


Moscow, May 9 (RHC)-- Russian President Vladimir Putin says his country is militarily prepared for anything. Putin was overseeing drills involving Russia's military forces as tensions grow with the West over the Ukraine crisis. ... More


Bogotá, May 9 (RHC) – Riot police have been deployed in Bogota where students from various universities in the capital protested in favor of agricultural reforms and strikes, which on Friday entered their eleventh day.... More


The 30th anniversary of Havana’s Fine Arts Biennial is being celebrated this year in May under the slogan “a living lab”. ... More


United Nations, May 10 (RHC) -- The Permanent Mission of Cuba at the United Nations presented to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon a denunciation against Washington's unilateral inclusion of the island on the blacklist of states supposedly sponsoring international terrorism.... More


Sport News Roundup May 8

The Cuban boxing team secured 9 tickets of 9 possible at the 1st Qualifier for the Central American and Caribbean Games Veracruz-2014, which takes place in Tijuana, Mexico.... More


Abuja, May 8 (RHC)-- News of the latest attack comes amid a global outcry over the Boko Haram’s kidnapping of nearly 300 schoolgirls in the same region. On Wednesday, protests continued in the capital Abuja calling on the Nigerian government to step up its search for the missing girls.... More


Abuja, May 8 (RHC)-- A new massacre by the Boko Haram in Nigeria has left several hundred people dead. Residents and local officials say dozens of Boko Haram gunmen attacked the northeast town of Gamboru Ngala on Monday.... More


Bogotá, May 8 (RHC) -- A criminal organization accused of spying on the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in an attempt to derail peace talks is the target of an ongoing government investigation. ... More


San José, May 8 (RHC) – Costa Rican President Luis Guillermo Solís, whose landslide victory as a third-party candidate crushed Costa Rica's traditional two-party system, was inaugurated on Thursday in San José.... More


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