Havana, October 17 (RHC-Xinhua) -- Cuba will roll out new national identity cards as of October 29th, the Juventud Rebelde newspaper reported Thursday.... More
Havana, October 17 (RHC-ACN) -- Tobacco planting in western Pinar del Rio will employ over 15 thousand 900 hectares of land for the 2014-2015 campaign, 115 hectares more than last year, when the local production was way behind schedule, mainly due to unfavorable weather conditions.... More
Port-au-Prince, October 17 (RHC) -– Haiti’s Sunrise Airways is continuing its Caribbean expansion, this time with the launching of flights from its hub in Port-au-Prince to Santiago de Cuba, th Caribbean Journal website reports.... More
LIMA, Oct 16 (NNN-ANDINA) -- Peruvian singer-songwriter, Susana Baca, known as the voice of Afro-Peruvian music tradition, will perform in Havana as guest of honor of the Third Meeting of Popular Voices.... More
U.S. Reverend Jesse Jackson called for an end to the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States on Cuba over the last 52 years, as recently published by the Web site of the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper.... More
Cuba files 1 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze medals at the 11th Championship of the Americas Rifle, Pistol and Shotgun, based in Guadalajara, Mexico, until October 19th, qualifying tournament for the 2015 Pan-American Games in Toronto.... More
Caracas, October 16 (teleSUR-RHC), -- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro revealed on Wednesday that ongoing investigations into the murder of legislator Robert Serra show Colombian paramilitaries were also planning to kill National Assembly President, Diosdado Cabello, and Minister of Education, Hector Rodriguez, and other government figures as part of plots to destabilize the country.... More
Washington, October 16 (RHC)-- The Pentagon has said ISIL still stands the chance of seizing the Syrian town of Kobani despite U.S.-led airstrikes that have resulted in the deaths of "several hundred" ISIL terrorists. ... More
Rio de Janeiro, October 16 (RHC-Xinhua) -- Brazil's two presidential candidates remain technically tied in the lead-up to a runoff on October 26th, according to a poll released Wednesday.... More
Islamabad, October 16 (RHC)-- The United States has stepped up its drone attacks on Pakistan's tribal areas over the past few days in a move which is expected to cause a new wave of anti-American sentiment in the country, Press TV reports. ... More
Santiago, October 16 (telesur-RHC), -- Latin American women are suffering more than their male counterparts from poverty and malnutrition, especially because of cultural prejudices, warned the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) regional office in Chile on the International Day of the Rural Woman on Oct. 15.... More
United Nations, October 16 (RHC)-- The UN Security Council has called on the international community to step up its efforts to curb the spread of the deadly Ebola outbreak. The 15-member council issued a unanimous statement on Wednesday, saying that the world "has failed to date to adequately address the magnitude of the outbreak and its effects." ... More
Mexico City, October 16 (NNN-RHC) -- Mexican authorities in the town of Iguala scrambled to find 43 students missing since gang-affiliated police attacked them 19 days ago, as angry protesters demanding their safe return threw rocks at the attorney general`s office.... More
Geneva, October 16 (RHC)-- The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) plans to provide the Ebola-ravaged West African countries with specialized diagnostic equipment. A nuclear-derived diagnostic technology will be delivered to the West African countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone which have been most devastated by the spiraling Ebola outbreak, IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano announced in a statement on Tuesday. ... More
Lima, October 16 (RHC-Andina) -- While speaking at the 18th American Regional Meeting held in Lima, Peruvian President Ollanta Humala urged countries of the region to fight inequality in order to achieve decent working conditions.... More
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