Havana, January 20 (RHC)-– A high-ranking Cuban official told a group of British businesspeople that the changes foreseen in the new foreign investment law the National Assembly will discuss in March are deeper than originally discussed by the government.... More
San Salvador, January 20 (RHC)-- Members of the Salvadorian Coordinating Committee of Solidarity with Cuba rallied through the streets of San Salvador on Sunday to protest the unfair imprisonment of the Cuban anti-terrorists fighters, known as the Cuban Five, in the United States.... More
Havana, January 20 (RHC)-– With the help of the Chinese government, Cuba has enlarged the areas of Digital Television (DTV) tests to the eastern provinces of the island country, Xinhua news agency reported.... More
Kuwait, January 20 (RHC)-- Director General and Chairman of Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) Sheikh Mubarak Al-Duaij Al-Ibrahim Al-Sabah met on Sunday with Cuban Ambassador to Kuwait, Andres Gonzalez, the Kuwaiti press outlet reported.... More
Caracas, January 20 (RHC)-- Concerts, art exhibitions and audiovisual presentations are among the activities to commemorate the 133 anniversary of the arrival in Caracas of Cuban national hero Jose Marti on January 20th, 1881.... More
For his feats in the conquest of Mexico the Spanish Crown granted Francisco García Holguín land in the northeastern part of the island from the Jigüe to the Marañon Rivers in 1545, prompting García Holguín, his wife Isabel Fernández de Sandoval, and some followers, to found the first village in the area.... More
Cuban singer-songwriter, Silvio Rodríguez, will offer a concert on Sunday, January 19th, in Old Havana’s Saint Francis of Assisi Square to mark the 15th anniversary of Habana Radio station.... More
Havana, January 18 (RHC)-- Cuba's First Vice President Miguel Diaz Canel visited the facilities of Radio Havana Cuba on Saturday, where he expressed his interest in the work of the radio station and exchanged views with the workers about their major concerns and successes. ... More
Washington, January 18 (RHC)-- U.S. President Barack Obama says the United States will not apologize for the National Security Agency’s controversial spying programs at home and abroad, but promises modest changes. During a major policy speech on Friday, Obama ordered changes to U.S. intelligence-gathering practices, but the changes fall short of the drastic cutbacks demanded by privacy activists.... More
Caracas, January 18 (RHC)-– Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says he plans to pay an official visit to Iran in the near future to strengthen mutual relations and discuss avenues for further improving cooperation.... More
Cairo, January 18 (RHC)-- Five people have been killed and several others wounded after Egyptian police used excessive force against anti-government protesters in the capital, Cairo, and the city of Alexandria.... More
Brasilia, January 18 (RHC)-- Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff Friday said federal funds should be distributed to all states, irrespective of their political affiliations.... More
Kabul, January 18 (RHC)-- An Afghan fact-finding mission has found that a recent U.S. airstrike has killed at least 13 civilians in the country’s northeastern province of Parwan. A member of a fact-finding mission said on Friday that 13 civilians, most of them women and children, were killed in the U.S. airstrike in Parwan Province on Wednesday. Initial reports had put the death toll at eight.... More
Kabul, January 18 (RHC)-- The death toll from a bombing and shooting attack at a Lebanese restaurant in central Kabul has reached 21. The Lebanese restaurant in Kabul's central district of Wazir Akbar Khan came under attack on Friday. A bomber blew up his explosives near the entrance of the restaurant and then two gunmen stormed in to spray diners with bullets.... More
Brussels, January 18 (RHC)-- A first round of negotiations for a Multiparty Trade Agreement between the European Union (EU) and Ecuador concluded successfully on Friday in Brussels, said officials with the European Commission (EC).... More
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