Islamabad, March 6 (RHC) -– Some 295 young students from Pakistan received their degrees in Medical Sciences in the first graduation of Pakistani doctors in Cuba, the Pakistan Observer reported on Thursday.... More


Havana, March 6 (RHC) -– Breaking a record in visitor numbers for the month and growing a hefty 9.3 percent from January 2013, 320,032 tourists visited Cuba in January this year, the National Statistics Office (ONE) reported.... More


Sport News Ruund Up March 5th

Industriales decimated the hopes of Artemisa to give it an almost fatal blow to its aspirations for the playoffs at the 53rd Cuban Baseball Championship, after winning the game by 6-5 in extra innings.... More


Caracas, March 5 (RHC) -– Tens of thousands of Venezuelans participated Wednesday in commemorations to mark one year since the death of Bolivarian leader Hugo Chavez Frías.... More


Paris, March 5 (RHC)-- Russia and the United States are holding face-to-face talks today for the first time since the crisis in Ukraine escalated last month. ... More


Moscow, March 5 (RHC)-- In his first news conference since deploying troops around Crimea last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin said he would use force only as a "last resort."... More


Sanaa, March 5 (RHC)-- A U.S. drone strike has reportedly killed at least three people in Yemen’s Marib province near the town of Shebwan. Tribal sources said a drone hit the vehicle of a suspected al-Qaeda fighter, killing him and two other occupants. Two civilians tending sheep nearby were reportedly wounded. ... More


Cairo, March 5 (RHC)-- U.S. peace activist Medea Benjamin says she was detained at Cairo’s airport by Egyptian police who broke her arm and held her without explanation. Benjamin had intended to meet up with international delegates before traveling to Gaza for a women’s conference.... More


Bogotá, March 5 (RHC) -- Colombian veterinary authorities have reported an outbreak of classical swine fever at a pig farm in the northeastern department of Cesar, affecting semi-confined backyard pigs that came into contact with pigs affected by other outbreaks.... More


Brasilia, March 5 (RHC) -- Brazil’s Air Force has purchased two new $12 million dollar drones from Israel to patrol the skies during the FIFA World Cup, the daily Haaretz reported.... More


Kabul, March 5 (RHC)-- New data from the Afghan government shows Afghan forces have borne the brunt of the U.S.-led invasion, with nearly 14,000 Afghan soldiers and police killed in the war, a far higher toll than previously known. ... More


Bogotá, March 5 (RHC) -- Almost 62,000 acres of coca leave crops and drug making laboratories were found in Colombia’s central state of Boyaca.... More


Baghdad, March 5 (RHC)-- Iraq is continuing to see increased levels of violence. The United Nations confirmed more than 700 people died in Iraq in February alone, most of them civilians, a higher toll than the same month last year. ... More


Brasilia, March 5 (RHC) -- This year, Arabica coffee prices are likely to rise to 150-160 cents/pound (lb). Currently, the price is 194 cents/lb, a rise of 92 percent compared with 101 cents/lb in November 2013, the Business Standard daily reported.... More


Mexico City, March 5 (RHC)-- Mexico’s Human Rights Commission is investigating possible medical negligence over the care of indigenous women giving birth in the southern state of Oaxaca.... More


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