Havana, Apr 5 (RHC), – Representatives of 160 national and foreign firms will attend the 10th International Construction Fair (FECONS) that will be opened on Tuesday at this capital’s PABEXPO showground.... More


Havana, Apr 5 (RHC) – U.S. Academician, Sandra Levinson, asked President Barack Obama on Thursday to pardon three Cuban antiterrorists incarcerated in her country for 15 years now for preventing the execution on the island of violent plans.... More


Havana, Apr 5, (RHC), -- With the purpose of strengthening exchanges and cooperation in the field of sports, Cuba and Kazakhstan signed on Friday a cooperation agreement in Astana, capital of the latter.... More


Havana, Apr 4, (RHC), – The information released in an Associated Press article on Thursday confirms the reiterated denunciations made by the Cuban government, reads a statement by the Cuban Foreign Ministry referring to the revelations about recent plans by Washington to destabilize the island.... More


Paris, Apr 4, (RHC), -- French Foreign Minister, Laurent Fabius, will travel to Cuba on April 12 in what will be the first visit by a French foreign minister to the Caribbean nation in three decades, diplomatic sources in Paris announced.... More


Havana, Apr 4, (RHC), -- President Raul Castro met with the chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander I. Bastrykin, who is visiting the island.... More


Sport News Roundup April 4

Cuban Leydi Laura Moya, the only female representative of her country, qualified for the Modern Pentathlon World Cup finals, currently underway in Cairo, Egypt, local sources said.... More


Moscow, April 4 (RHC)-- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday strongly criticized what he described as 'the role of arbiter of fate that the West has assumed in regards to Ukraine.' ... More


Caracas, Apr 4, (RHC), -- A member of the right-wing opposition Popular Will party has been arrested for their involvement in a terrorist attack on the Ministry of Housing and Habitat last Tuesday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Thursday.... More


Santiago, Apr 4, (RHC), – The Foreign Ministers of Chile and Argentina, Heraldo Muñoz and Hector Timmerman respectively, will meet today in the Chilean capital, Santiago, in a bid to strengthen bilateral relations.... More


Santiago, Apr 4, (RHC), – Coastal residents of Chile’s far north spent a second sleepless night outside their homes as major aftershocks continued on Thursday following a magnitude-8.2 earthquake that damaged several thousand homes and caused six deaths. But no new major damage or casualties were reported, and a heavy police and military presence kept order, Mercopress news agency reports.... More


PERTH, Australia, April 4 (Xinhua - RHC), -- A underwater search for missing Malaysia Airline flight MH370 started Friday as searchers are racing against time to locate its data recorders known as the 'black box' before the batteries run out of power. The black box contains a pinger with a battery life of about 30 days after a crash.... More


HAVANA, Cuba, Apr 4 (acn), -- The Spanish media company Lleida.net expressed its willingness to provide the necessary information about its participation in the project ZunZuneo, a social network created by the U.S. government to promote opposition in Cuba. ... More


TOKYO, April 4 (Xinhua), -- Japan's lower house of parliament on Friday passed two nuclear treaties with Turkey and the United Arab Emirates (UEA) to allow Japan to begin exporting its nuclear power technology and related equipment to both countries.... More


HANOI, April 4 (Xinhua -RHC) -- Vietnam and Malaysia agreed on Friday to consider upgrading bilateral ties to strategic partnership.... More


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