A tribute to late maestro Fernando Alonso will be held during Havana’s 24th International Ballet Festival scheduled to run from October 28th through November 7th... More
The President of the Dominican Republic, Danilo Medina, received Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodriguez in his office... More
The Cuban star player Alfredo Despaigne debuted this Friday with his team Granma in the 54th National Baseball Series, after his return from Japan, where he had an outstanding performance in that country's top baseball league, the Chiba Lotte Marines. ... More
Cairo, October 25 (RHC)-- More than two dozen Egyptian policemen have lost their lives and scores of others wounded in a powerful explosion at a military checkpoint in the Sinai Peninsula of the North African country. ... More
Mexico City, October 25 (RHC-Xinhua) -- Mexico is joining international efforts to combat the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa, the Foreign Affairs Ministry said Friday.... More
Rome, October 25 (RHC)-- Workers in Italy have staged a nationwide strike to protest against the government’s economic policies including cuts to public services and labor reforms. ... More
Washington, October 25 (RHC)-- The World Trade Organization has ruled against the United States in a multinational dispute over the labeling of meat. The United States requires the disclosure of a meat product’s country of origin. But Mexico and Canada have argued the rules harm their livestock exports. ... More
Caracas, October 25 (teleSUR-RHC) -- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro fought back at what he described as "interventionist comments" of Spanish President Mariano Rajoy, after he made critical remarks to Lilian Tintori, wife of jailed Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez, about the South American country's democracy.... More
Manila, October 25 (RHC)-- Protests are continuing in the Philippines where a U.S. Marine is suspected of murdering a transgender woman. Outrage has focused on the so-called "Visiting Forces Agreement" -- a decades-old deal between the United States and the Philippines, which critics say has been used to shield U.S. soldiers from punishment. ... More
La Paz, October 25 (teleSUR-RHC) –- The Bolivian government is using funds from the country’s nationalized resources and industries to fund a program, social cash transfers, targeting vulnerable segments of the population, including expecting mothers, the elderly, and public school students.... More
Washington, October 25 (RHC)-- A U.S. federal judge has ordered the Barack Obama administration to outline in detail its reasons for concealing as many as 2,100 photographs showing the torture of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan. ... More
Mexico City, October 25 (RHC-PL) -- The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights urged the national authorities Friday to step up efforts to find the 43 students missing from the Normal Rural School of Ayotzinapa, in Iguala, Guerrero state.... More
London, October 25 (RHC)-- A British charity organization says 1.6 million pensioners in Britain live in poverty, as many of them miss out on entitled government benefits. The Age UK charity recently released a report, saying 900,000 of the pensioners live in “severe poverty.” ... More
Paris, October 25 (RHC-PL) -- The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), based in Paris, the French capital, has decided to exclude Cuba from its monitoring mechanisms, in recognition of that country's work in preventing money laundering and terrorism financing.... More
The future stars of the Cuban National Ballet, students of the famed National Ballet School in Havana are the subjects of an exciting new exhibition by American photographer, Rebekah Bowman. Curated by Roberto Chile and Rebekah herself, the exhibition will open next Monday October 27 at Havana's José Martí Memorial in Revolution Square, as part of activities of the International Ballet Festival of Havana, running October 28 to November 7.... More
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