Montevideo, October 29 (RHC-Mercopress) –- The Organization of American States (OAS) Secretary General has congratulated the Uruguayan people on their democratic spirit shown during Sunday´s general elections. He also extended praise to the two candidates that advanced to the second round, Tabaré Vázquez from the ruling Broad Front and Luis Lacalle Pou from the National Party.... More
Richmond, October 29 (RHC)-- The massive explosion of an unmanned rocket in Virginia has raised fresh concerns about NASA’s reliance on private contractors. The rocket, which used a older-model engine, was made by Orbital Sciences, which has a $1.9 billion contract with NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, to make deliveries to the International Space Station. ... More
Matanzas strengthened its leadership at the 54th Cuban Baseball Series to overcome 12-7 to Industriales on Tuesday to reach 19 wins and only 9 failures. ... More
Havana, October 29 (RHC) -- Cuban President Raul Castro held a meeting with the visiting Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Barcenas, Granma newspaper reported today.... More
Washington, October 29 (RHC-PL) -- A member of the U.S. House of Representatives, James McGovern, a Democrat from the U.S. state of Massachusetts, urged President Barack Obama to end the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed on Cuba for over 50 years.... More
Havana, October 29 (RHC) -– Members of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) are meeting in Havana for two days to discuss a coordinated emergency response to the potential arrival of the Ebola virus in the region.... More
Havana, October 29 (RHC) -– The Executive Secretary of ECLAC, Alicia Barcena, condemned on Tuesday the economic sanctions imposed by the government of the United States against Cuba, stressing that with such policy of blockade the United States had lost more than Cuba.... More
Moscow, October 29 (RHC) –- The Federation Council, the upper house of the Russian parliament, has ratified an intergovernmental agreement with Cuba on the exploration and peaceful use of outer space.... More
Tehran, October 29 (RHC-FNA) - The Iranian Foreign Ministry has appointed Kambiz Sheikh Hassani as the New Iranian Ambassador to Cuba, Fars News Agency reports.... More
Paris, October 29 (RHC-UNNS) -- The head of the United Nations agency mandated to defend press freedom has denounced the recent killing of Mexican journalist and editor of a local magazine in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, and urged authorities to conduct a quick and thorough investigation into the murder.... More
Bogotá, October 29 (RHC-Xinhua) -- British Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, arrived in Bogotá on Tuesday afternoon for an official visit to Colombia.... More
Spanish-French writer, Ignacio Ramonet, presented Pope Francis I with two of his books: Fidel Castro. Biografía a dos voces and Hugo Chávez. Mi primera vida... More
US photographer, Rebekah Bowman, says that the economic, financial and trade blockade against Cuba is anachronistic. ... More
United Nations, Oct 28, (RHC), -- In his intervention at the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly which debated today a resolution on the necessity to end US sanctions on Cuba, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla decried the strengthening of the US economic, financial and trade blockade imposed on Cuba for over half a decade.... More
The curtains of Havana’s Karl Marx Theater went up Tuesday, October 28th, as the 24th International Ballet Festival got underway in the Cuban capital with a tribute to the memory of William Shakespeare... More
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