Havana, October 17 (RHC) -– Cuba's prestigious Granma Naval Academy on Thursday was awarded the Antonio Maceo Order, during a military ceremony and political event on occasion of the school's 55th anniversary.... More


Havana, October 17 (RHC-PL) -- Cuba and Togo called for the strengthening of bilateral and cooperation relations, in the framework of a working visit to Havana by Togo's Foreign Minister Robert Dussey.... More


Havana, October 17 (RHC-Xinhua) -- Cuba will roll out new national identity cards as of October 29th, the Juventud Rebelde newspaper reported Thursday.... More


Havana, October 17 (RHC-ACN) -- Tobacco planting in western Pinar del Rio will employ over 15 thousand 900 hectares of land for the 2014-2015 campaign, 115 hectares more than last year, when the local production was way behind schedule, mainly due to unfavorable weather conditions.... More


Port-au-Prince, October 17 (RHC) -– Haiti’s Sunrise Airways is continuing its Caribbean expansion, this time with the launching of flights from its hub in Port-au-Prince to Santiago de Cuba, th Caribbean Journal website reports.... More


LIMA, Oct 16 (NNN-ANDINA) -- Peruvian singer-songwriter, Susana Baca, known as the voice of Afro-Peruvian music tradition, will perform in Havana as guest of honor of the Third Meeting of Popular Voices.... More


Economic Update October 16

U.S. Reverend Jesse Jackson called for an end to the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States on Cuba over the last 52 years, as recently published by the Web site of the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper.... More


Sports News Roundup Oct 16

Cuba files 1 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze medals at the 11th Championship of the Americas Rifle, Pistol and Shotgun, based in Guadalajara, Mexico, until October 19th, qualifying tournament for the 2015 Pan-American Games in Toronto.... More


Caracas, October 16 (teleSUR-RHC), -- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro revealed on Wednesday that ongoing investigations into the murder of legislator Robert Serra show Colombian paramilitaries were also planning to kill National Assembly President, Diosdado Cabello, and Minister of Education, Hector Rodriguez, and other government figures as part of plots to destabilize the country.... More


Washington, October 16 (RHC)-- The Pentagon has said ISIL still stands the chance of seizing the Syrian town of Kobani despite U.S.-led airstrikes that have resulted in the deaths of "several hundred" ISIL terrorists. ... More


Rio de Janeiro, October 16 (RHC-Xinhua) -- Brazil's two presidential candidates remain technically tied in the lead-up to a runoff on October 26th, according to a poll released Wednesday.... More


Islamabad, October 16 (RHC)-- The United States has stepped up its drone attacks on Pakistan's tribal areas over the past few days in a move which is expected to cause a new wave of anti-American sentiment in the country, Press TV reports. ... More


Santiago, October 16 (telesur-RHC), -- Latin American women are suffering more than their male counterparts from poverty and malnutrition, especially because of cultural prejudices, warned the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) regional office in Chile on the International Day of the Rural Woman on Oct. 15.... More


United Nations, October 16 (RHC)-- The UN Security Council has called on the international community to step up its efforts to curb the spread of the deadly Ebola outbreak. The 15-member council issued a unanimous statement on Wednesday, saying that the world "has failed to date to adequately address the magnitude of the outbreak and its effects." ... More


Mexico City, October 16 (NNN-RHC) -- Mexican authorities in the town of Iguala scrambled to find 43 students missing since gang-affiliated police attacked them 19 days ago, as angry protesters demanding their safe return threw rocks at the attorney general`s office.... More


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