Santiago de Cuba, August 29 (RHC) -– Treatment with natural medicines is an alternative in diabetic patients in the province of Santiago de Cuba, mainly in those with chronic complications such as polyneuropathy. ... More


United Nations, August 29 (RHC)-- A UN spokesman says an “armed group” is holding 43 UN peacekeepers in the Syrian part of the Golan Heights while another 81 are trapped. The UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) personnel were detained near Quneitra during fighting between Syrian government forces and foreign-backed militants. ... More


Rio de Janeiro, August 29 (Xinhua-RHC) -- The Rio 2016 organizing committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games have launched their volunteer program to recruit 70,000 volunteers for the first Games to be held in South America.... More


Buenos Aires, Aug 29 (PL-RHC), -- Argentina and Cuba identified Thursday that they have opportunities for integration and complementation in branches of medical services and drug manufacture, in a cooperated production, to supply third markets production.... More


Panama City, August 29 (PL-RHC) -- The Panama Health Ministry (Minsa) announced on Thursday an increased fight, in areas of dificult access, against the mosquitoes Aedes Aegyptis and Albopictus, both transmitters of dengue and Chikungunya hemorrhagic fever.... More


Daniel Rodríguez was the First Prize winner at the “Young Musicians Awards” in Portugal with his performance of Piano Concerto No. 5 Emperor by Ludwig van Beethoven.... More


Sports News Roundup Aug 28

The young men's volleyball team of Cuba travels today to Poland to participate in the XXVIII World Championship, scheduled to take place from this Saturday until September 21st in various cities of that European country, said the Cuban National Information Agency. ... More


Havana, August 28 (RHC) -– Cuban First Vice President Miguel Diaz-Canel stressed the importance and role of the new generations of Cubans to build a better and increasingly fairer society and a prosperous and sustainable socialist system.... More


Pinar del Rio, August 28 (RHC) -– The Cuban Communist Party's Second Secretary, Jose Ramon Machado Ventura, during a visit to the famous Vuelta-bajo tobacco-leaf growing region in western Pinar del Rio province, said that Cuban tobacco is the best in the world. Consequently, he said, Cuba must increase production.... More


Buenos Aires, August 28 (RHC) -– Argentina's government on Wednesday ruled out returning to the negotiating table with the holdout vulture funds that they have been battling for several months.... More


Tel Aviv, August 28 (RHC)-- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has come under severe criticism by members of his coalition government, among others, after reaching a ceasefire deal with the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. ... More


La Paz, August 28 (RHC) -– Cuban Communist leader Jose Ramon Balaguer said at the Sao Paulo Forum, underway in Bolivia, that all revolutionaries in Latin America must support Venezuela amid current destabilization attempts by U.S. imperialism and local right-wing circles. ... More


Guatemala City, August 28 (RHC) -– The Cuban literacy methodology known as 'Yes I Can' has helped 19,425 Guatemalans to read and write since 2007, according to the program's national coordinator, Vilma Monte-agudo.... More


Tripoli, August 28 (RHC)-- The Libyan government is warning of a full-scale civil war unless heavily-armed militias are brought under control. Libya has been roiled by fighting among rival militias following the U.S.-backed ouster of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. ... More


Hanoi, August 28 (RHC) –- A message of condolence by Cuba's President Raul Castro for the death of Vietnamese fighter Vo Thi Thang, known as “The Smile of Victory,” was noted by the Vietnamese media.... More


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