Díaz-Canel: We will not get tired of fighting against Washington's blockade
Havana, March 18 (RHC)-- Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel reiterated today through his social network X, the will to confront the U.S. blockade and boost the country's economic development, and reaffirmed the government's commitment to the population.... More
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Havana, March 18 (RHC)-- On Monday, March 18th, U.S. Chargé d'Affaires Benjamin Ziff was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs by Deputy Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío, who formally conveyed to him the firm rejection of the interference behavior and slanderous messages of the U.S. Government and its embassy in Cuba regarding internal affairs of the Cuban reality.
MoreHavana, March 18 (RHC) India today announced the appointment of T. Armstrong Changsan, current joint secretary of its Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as the next ambassador to the Republic of Cuba.
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San Sebastian, March 18 (RHC)-- In San Sebastián, Spain, demonstrators rallied before lying down on the ground next to a massive banner depicting part of Picasso’s famous antiwar painting “Guernica.”
MoreNiamey, March 18 (RHC)-- The military junta in Niger has ordered U.S. troops to leave the country in a major setback to U.S. military operations in Africa.
MoreRamallah, March 18 (RHC)-- The Palestinian Football Association has put forward a proposal that persuades FIFA to ban Israel from all international competitions over the regime’s brutal military campaign in the besieged Gaza Strip. The 74th annual FIFA Congress will discuss the proposal by the PFA.
MoreHavana, March 18 (RHC) - Cuban Marlon Yant played his best match of the season and led the Lube Civitanova to a 5-set win over Monza to keep his team alive in the playoffs of the Italian Superliga Volleyball League, the best in the world.
MoreHavana, March 18 (JIT) - Ciego de Avila beat Holguin 7x6 and took advantage of Las Tunas' defeat to stay alone at the top of the 63rd National Baseball Series, in a day in which former major leaguer Alexei Ramirez of Pinar left Industriales on the field.
MoreWashington, March 12 (RHC)-- Spotted at President Biden's State of the Union last week on Capitol Hill was Gabriel Shipton, who alongside Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie is fighting for clemency for his brother, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
MoreSpeech delivered by Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, at the closing ceremony of the XI Congress of the Federation of Cuban Women, at the Convention Palace, on March 8, 2024, "Year 66 of the Revolution".
MoreThe lifeless body of an infant lies on the ground, her small frame wrapped in a white shroud. Her delicate features, once a source of joy and hope for her parents, are frozen.
MoreNew York, March 15 (RHC)-- Prominent writers including Naomi Klein, Michelle Alexander, Hisham Matar, Isabella Hammad and Zaina Arafat have announced they will not participate in this year’s PEN World Voices Festival for failing to appropriately respond to Israel’s “cultural genocide” in Gaza.
MoreHollywood, March 11 (RHC)-- During the Oscars ceremony Sunday evening in Hollywood, filmmaker Jonathan Glazer condemned the Israeli occupation after his Holocaust film “The Zone of Interest” won an Oscar for best international film.
MoreLos Angeles, March 11 (RHC)-- Celebrities including Billie Eilish, director Ava DuVernay, Poor Things star Mark Ruffalo, Ramy Youssef and many more showed up to the red carpet for the 96th Academy Awards wearing red pins in support of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas as a protest delayed stars’ arrivals.
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