Havana (RHC) - The outstanding Cuban athlete Yunidis Castillo began to train again in the National Athletics Team for people with disabilities with the goal of achieving a medal at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.... More


The Cuban Idalis Ortiz and the Argentinian Lionel Messi, obtained the media vote of Costa Rica in the Prensa Latina Survey to choose the best athletes in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2019.... More


Havana, December 6 (RHC) -- The 41st International New Latin American Film Festival opened with the premiere in Cuba of the Argentinian feature film La Odisea de los Giles (The Odissey of the Giles)... More


 Just in time for Christmas... the Trump administration brings hunger to the most vulnerable.

Washington, December 6 (RHC)-- The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has announced a bill that could eliminate the federal food stamp program for nearly 700,000 people by strictly enforcing work requirements.... More


Lagos, December 6 (RHC)-- Pirates have kidnapped 19 crew members from a Greek-owned crude oil tanker off Nigeria, the ship's owner and managers said in a statement. The Nave Constellation was attacked about 142 kilometres (77 nautical miles) off Bonny Island, located directly off the southern coast of Nigeria, in an area where acts of piracy have been increasing.... More


Paris, December 6 (RHC)-- Police in Rennes, northwest France, attacked protesters who took to the streets on the first day of a nationwide union strike over President Emmanuel Macron’s proposed pension reforms.... More


At least 410,000 of those children are detained in jails and prisons, where violence is endemic.  ( Photo: Reuters)

United Nations, December 6 (RHC)-- The United Nations released a recent report showing that over 7 million children worldwide are being held in detention and deprived of their liberty.... More


 The year 2019 puts an end to a decade marked by exceptional heat registers, the decline of ice and by unprecedented worldwide sea levels.  (Photo: Reuters)

United Nations, December 6 (RHC)-- Two reports published during the 25th United Nations Conference on Climate Change, COP25, held in Madrid, highlighted the way in which the average temperature of the Earth increases with catastrophic results for life on the planet, including our own health, and how, despite this, human beings still do not use effective remedies to stop this phenomenon or mitigate its effects.... More


Havana, December 6 (RHC)-- Prominent revolutionary fighter Faure Chomon Mediavilla died on Thursday in Havana of a multiorgan dysfunction syndrome, local media outlets reported. He was 90 years old. ... More


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Havana, December 6  (RHC)-- Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez welcomed the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Audrey Azoulay on Thursday.... More


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Havana, December 6 (RHC)-- Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel met this Thursday in Havana with the executive President of the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (BCIE), Dante Mossi. ... More


Havana, December 5 (RHC)-- The Government of Cuba denounced Thursday that the current U.S. crusade against the international medical collaboration of the Caribbean island is as an infamous and criminal act.... More


Quito, December 5 (RHC)-- The government of Ecuador has tried to justify the repression of protesters who took to the streets in October for ten days to reject the economic reform that Lenin Moreno's regime intended to impose.... More


Pro-Palestinian Turks gather on fourth anniversary of a deadly Israeli raid on the Freedom Flotilla, in Istanbul, Turkey, May 30, 2014. (Photo: AP)

Ramallah, December 5 (RHC)-- Families of those killed by Israeli forces aboard an aid flotilla heading for the besieged Gaza Strip in 2010 will appeal the International Criminal Court (ICC)’s decision not to press charges against Tel Aviv.... More


Mexico City, December 5 (RHC)-- Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said that his government will seek to strengthen cooperation with the United States to control the flow of “arms and dollars” during meetings this week with U.S. Attorney General William Barr.... More


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