Havana, April 26 (RHC) -- The leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, is in good health and working hard, although he is “dismayed” over the recent death of his close friend, Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez.... More


Sport News Roundup April 26

US citizen Peter Crowley started today on a quest to cross the Florida Strait from the International Ernest Hemingway Nautical Club in Havana rowing on a kayak.... More


Pretoria, April 26 (RHC) -- The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) condemned on Friday the violation of Cuba's sovereignty by the United States through its so-called ZunZuneo project.... More


Quito, April 26 (RHC-NNN) -- Ecuadorian Deputy Foreign Minister Leonardo Arizaga has confirmed that a group of U.S. soldiers who remain at Washington's embassy in Quito will have to leave the country under the expressed request of the Ecuadorian Government.... More


Baghdad, April 26 (RHC)-- A fresh wave of bomb explosions has rocked the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, leaving at least 28 people dead and nearly two dozen others injured. Multiple blasts on Friday ripped through an election campaign rally held for the Shia political party, Asaib Ahel al-Haq.... More


Pakistan Bomb Blast Kills Four

Karachi, April 26 (RHC)-- At least four people have been killed and dozens injured after a powerful bomb exploded near a government vehicle in Pakistan's southern city of Karachi. ... More


Havana, April 26 (RHC-PL) -- “The Colombian peace process could achieve significant progress by the end of the current round of talks in Havana,” said Andres Paris, a member of the delegation of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People's Army (FARC-EP).... More


Cairo, April 26 (RHC)-- At least two people have been killed and dozens more injured as protesters held anti-government rallies in several cities across Egypt. A female protester was killed as Egyptian security forces used tear gas and buckshot to disperse a rally in the city of Fayoum, just south of the capital Cairo on Friday.... More


San Salvador, April 26 (RHC-NNN) -- Salvadorian President Elect Salvador Sánchez Cerén was received Friday at the Vatican by Pope Francis.... More


Havana, April 26 (RHC) -- Cuba seeks to improve bilateral relations with the European Union (EU), but as equals with mutual respect, Cuban Vice President Miguel Diaz-Canel said Friday. ... More


Havana, April 26 (RHC) – The visiting Portuguese Secretary of State for Foreign Business and Cooperation, Luis Alvaro Barbosa de Campos Ferreira, on Friday expressed his confidence in the strengthening of relations with Cuba, following the signing of a memorandum of understanding between his country and the Caribbean island.... More


Washington, April 26 (RHC)-- The U.S. Navy has spent over $3 billion on a new stealth destroyer that uses hydrogen and carbon-dioxide harvested from ocean water as fuel. ... More


Geneva, April 26 (RHC) -- The World Trade Organization (WTO) agreed on Friday to create a commission to discuss and resolve complaints from Cuba and the Dominican Republic against Australia over a controversial tobacco law.... More


Havana, April 26 (RHC) – Whistleblower website WikiLeaks has published some 367,000 pages of U.S. government documents, related to the term in office of U.S. President Jimmy Carter, in which the word “Cuba” appears on 3,215 pages, CubaDebate reported on Saturday.... More


Havana, April 26 (RHC) -- Cuba launched on Friday the second half of the 53rd National Polio Vaccination Campaign from April 25th to May 1st, which will immunize more than half a million children against the crippling disease.... More


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