The Romerías de Mayo Cultural Festival is underway in the eastern city of Holguín, focusing on young art on the island. ... More
Cubans are packing several Havana movie theaters as the 12th French Film Festival got underway in the Cuban capital to pay tribute to filmmaker Francois Truffaut.... More
Cuba already has 5 qualified boxers for the Central American and Caribbean Games, Veracruz 2014, next November.... More
Baghdad, May 6 (RHC)-- Iraqi security and hospital officials say at least eight people have been killed in separate bomb attacks and shooting incidents across the country. ... More
Havana, May 6 (RHC) – The peace negotiations between the Colombian government and leftist FARC rebel group will resume on May 12th, following positive developments in the latest round of talks last week.... More
Athens, May 6 (RHC)-- At least 22 people, including several children, have died after a boat and a dinghy carrying migrants capsized off the Greek coast. Some 65 migrants were en route from Turkey to Greece when their vessels went down early on Monday near the Greek island of Samos in the eastern Aegean Sea.... More
Buenos Aires, May 6 (RHC) – India, Brazil and South Africa are interested in having Argentina join the BRICS group of emerging economies which also includes Russia and China, according to the Indian ambassador in Buenos Aires, Amarenda Khatua, in an interview with the Clarin newspaper.... More
Washington, May 6 (RHC)-- The United States is increasing support to rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad in Syria. On Monday, U.S. State Department spokesperson Marie Harf announced plans for more than $27 million in new "non-lethal" aid and said the offices of the Syrian Opposition Coalition will now be recognized as a foreign mission.... More
Lima, May 6 (Xinhua-RHC) -- Latin America and the Caribbean have the widest wealth gap of any region on the planet, a UN official said Monday.... More
Abuja, May 6 (RHC)-- Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan says he has asked for international help toward finding the 276 schoolgirls kidnapped last month. The militant Islamist group Boko Haram is suspected of abducting the girls during a night raid on their northeastern hostel. ... More
Panama City, May 6 (Xinhua-RHC) -- The Panamanian government has designated a minister to coordinate power transfer to Juan Carlos Varela, who won Sunday's presidential poll.... More
Washington, May 6 (RHC)-- The Barack Obama administration has launched a review of execution procedures following last week’s botched killing of a death row prisoner in Oklahoma. ... More
Caracas, May 6 (Xinhua-RHC) -- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and Panamanian President-elect Juan Carlos Varela have pledged to waste no time in normalizing relations and relaunching diplomatic, economic and trade ties cut off two months ago, Venezuela's Foreign Ministry has announced.... More
New Brunswick, May 6 (RHC)-- Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has cancelled an appearance at Rutgers University following a wave of campus protest. ... More
Havana, May 6 (RHC) -– The Cuban Parliament denounced on Monday the continued U.S. media war against the island in a context marked by the use of new information and communication technologies with subversive aims. ... More
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