St. Louis, November 12 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Missouri, Governor Jay Nixon says he is prepared to redeploy the National Guard after a grand jury reaches its decision in the Michael Brown case. On Tuesday, Nixon said Guard members will be on standby should protests erupt. ... More


New York, November 12 (RHC)-- The New York City doctor who contracted Ebola after treating patients in West Africa has been released from the hospital after being declared Ebola-free. ... More


Havana, November 12 (RHC) -– U.S. senators Republican Jeff Flake of Arizona and Democrat Tom Udall of New Mexico toured Havana's Pedro Kouri Tropical Medicine Institute during a visit to Cuba, according to information on the website of that scientific research center.... More


United Nations, November 12 (RHC) -– The Permanent Cuban Mission at the United Nations submitted four draft resolutions aimed at strengthening human rights and peace on the planet.... More


Quito, November 12 (RHC) -– The General Secretary of the Union of Latin American Nations (UNASUR) Ernesto Samper has criticized the exclusion of Cuba from the Summit of the Americas, describing it as like sitting at the dinner table without inviting a family member.... More


Havana, November 12 (RHC) -- Cuban Vice President Jose Ramon Machado Ventura held a meeting on Tuesday morning with Tran Quoc Vuong, a member of the Secretariat of the Communist Party of Vietnam and Head of the Office General of the Central Committee. Tran Quoc Vuong heads an official Party delegation on a visit to Cuba, at the invitation of the Cuban Communist Party.... More


Ciego de Avila, November 12 (RHC) -– Cuban charcoal is reporting stable demand at the European market given its high quality, with Portugal, Italy and Spain being the main importers of the product.... More


Havana, November 12 (RHC) -– Some 200 delegates from 15 nations are gathering at the 9th International Workshop on Cancer Immune-Therapy, underway in Havana until Friday.... More


Santa Clara, November 12 (RHC) -– Cuban First Vice President Miguel Diaz-Canel visited education centers in the central city of Santa Clara and met with professors and students on the quality of the teaching process during the current school year.... More


San Salvador, November 12 (teleSUR-RHC), -- The campaign to free 17 women challenges El Salvador’s abortion law enacted in 1998, which makes abortion illegal in all cases, even when a women's life is in danger or in circumstances of rape, incest, or a deformed fetus. This country is one of 28 in the world that prohibits abortion in all cases.... More


Kingston, November 12 (teleSUR-RHC), -- Jamaica's minister of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change, Robert Pickersgill, is urging Caribbean leaders to develop a joint strategy on climate change issues, saying the region needs a stronger voice in the international arena.... More


Singapore-based Gajah Gallery wants to attract a Cuban audience with its Southeast Asian artist group show titled “Trajectories" opening in Cuba's capital, Havana.... More


A concert dedicated to the works of musician Pablo Milanes will open this year’s JoJazz festival in Havana on Thursday. Havana’s Lazaro Peña Theater will welcome artists William Roblejo, Rolando Luna, Aire de Concierto, Zule Guerra, Yanet Valdes, Sexto Sentido and others, who will perform classics by the Cuban singer-songwriter, as well as a lesser known piece composed by Milanes and Chucho Valdes.... More


Sports News Roundup Nov. 11

Sports facilities in the Mexican city of Xalapa were delivered by Carlos Sosa Ahumada, General Director of the sport event on Monday, and are now ready for the Central American and Caribbean Games, Veracruz-2014 from the 14th to the 30th of this month.... More


Washington, Nov. 11 (RHC), -- U.S. lawyer Robert Muise, one of the most knowledgeable US legal experts about US-Cuba relations, has affirmed that the normalization of relations between the two nations will require a series of presidential actions on the part of the United States. ... More


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