Havana, April 28 (RHC) – The Cuban government has reportedly approved plans for the construction of the country’s first mosque -- a courtesy of the Turkish government.... More
Havana, April 28 (RHC), – A drought in the eastern Cuban province of Granma is affecting the water supply to over 10,000 area residents, according to the National Water Resources Institute. ... More
Mexican ballet student, Paulina Guraieb, won the Grand Prix, and Cuba’s Rafael Quenedit won the Artistry Award at the 12th International Ballet Students Competition which wound up in Havana over the weekend.... More
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
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
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
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