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


Geneva, April 26 (RHC) -- The World Trade Organization (WTO) agreed on Friday to create a commission to discuss and resolve complaints from Cuba and the Dominican Republic against Australia over a controversial tobacco law.... More


Havana, April 26 (RHC) – Whistleblower website WikiLeaks has published some 367,000 pages of U.S. government documents, related to the term in office of U.S. President Jimmy Carter, in which the word “Cuba” appears on 3,215 pages, CubaDebate reported on Saturday.... More


Havana, April 26 (RHC) -- Cuba launched on Friday the second half of the 53rd National Polio Vaccination Campaign from April 25th to May 1st, which will immunize more than half a million children against the crippling disease.... More


Sport News Roundup April 25

The ashes of Cuban pitcher Conrado Marrero will be laid at the “Cuban Professional Baseball Players Pantheon” at the Colon Cemetery, according to Juventud Rebelde newspaper.... More


Havana, April 25 (RHC)-- Representatives of the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces continue peace negotiations in Havana in an effort to find a solution to the over 60-year armed conflict prevailing in the South American nation.... More


Tel Aviv, April 25 (RHC)-- Israel has halted the so-called peace talks with the Palestinian Authority following a unity deal between the Palestinian leadership and the resistance movement Hamas. ... More


Caracas, April 25 (PL-RHC) -- Investment in vaccination programs in Venezuela by the government, exceeded 340 billion bolivars ( 53 billion 900 million dollars) in the last 15 years, said the Ministry of Health.... More


Havana, April 25 (RHC) -- Broadening cooperation with regional pro-integration forums like the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) is among priorities of Russia's foreign policy, according to a diplomatic source in Havana.... More


London, April 25 (RHC)-- British, Dutch and Danish warplanes have scrambled to intercept a pair of Russian bombers approaching airspace of NATO member states over the North Sea. The UK sent jets from RAF Leuchars in Scotland to “determine the identity of unknown aircraft,” according to a spokesman for the UK Ministry of Defense, subsequently identifying them as "Russian military aircraft." ... More


Caracas, April 25 (PL-RHC) -- In Caracas today, the defense ministers of Venezuela, Carmen Teresa Carmen Melendez, and Argentina, Agustín Rossi, signed the final documents of an exchange aimed at strengthening integration.... More


Brasilia, April 25 (PL-RHC) -- The Brazilian foreign minister, Luiz Alberto Figueiredo, and his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, met behind closed doors in Brasilia today to discuss strategic issues and prepare for the visit of the president of the Asian nation, Xi Jinping, to this nation.... More


Baghdad, April 25 (RHC)-- At least eleven people have been killed after a bomb blast hit a police checkpoint south of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. The incident took place on Thursday, when an explosive-laden car drove into the checkpoint at one of the entrances of the southern city of Hillah. ... More


San José, April 25 (RHC) – Central America is joining the space race with plans to launch the region’s first satellite in 2016 to monitor climate change and carbon dioxide levels in one of Costa Rica’s most biodiverse national parks, the Fox news network reports.... More


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