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  • Cuban FM to arrive in India on May 25

    Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla will pay an official visit to India from May 25 to 27. On May 27, Parrilla will hold talks with his Indian counterpart Salman Khurshid. Both sides will discuss bilateral, regional and international issues of mutual interest. During the visit, Parilla is expected to call on Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari and deliver a lecture at ICWA on ...

  • Pentagon demands $450 mln for Guantanamo Bay prison maintenance

    The Pentagon has asked Congress to give them more than 450 million dollars for maintaining and upgrading the Guantanamo Bay prison, which President Barack Obama wants to close. The details of the administration's budget request emerged on Tuesday and underscored the contradiction of Obama waging a political fight to close r the facility while the military calculates the financial requirements ...

  • 15 nations for ophthalmology meet in Cuba

    The 7th International Ophthalmology Congress, to be held here June 29-31, will draw experts from 15 countries, Xinhua reported. Over 600 Cuban experts will attend the meeting to showcase the country's latest developments in ophthalmological research. This was carried out over the past few years in conjunction with "Mission Miracle," a joint Cuba-Venezuela programme launched in 2004 to provide ...

  • Cuba bridgade information session

    Find out about the 31st Southern Cross Brigade to Cuba (an annual trip organised through the Australia Cuba Friendship Societies), 29 Dec 2013 - 20 Jan 2014. Lotteries House, 2 Delhi Street, West Perth Are you interested in: Agricultural sustainability? Food security? Global social justice? Universal health care? Education? Organic Gardening? Socialism in practice? The brigade offers the ...

  • Canadian businessman goes on trial in Cuban corruption crackdown

    HAVANA (Reuters) - A Canadian businessman who has confessed to bribing Cuban officials was scheduled to go on trial in Havana on Thursday, almost two years after his arrest in a sweeping government crackdown on ...

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The Day After Tomorrow [DVD]

The Day After Tomorrow [DVD]

Roland Emmerichs The Day After Tomorrow is most interesting when viewed as the final entry in a loose trilogy of blockbusters about well, destruction. The first film was Emmerichs big breakthrough, Independence Day (1996), in which most of Earths populati ... ...

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  • Cuban Argentinean Volleyball Teams to Play Training Matches

    Havana, May 23 (Prensa Latina) A Cuban Volleyball team of 12 players will meet this month the first and second teams from Argentina in four training matches, announced the federation of that sport in the Caribbean country. The Cubans will travel tomorrow to the South American nation to play three matches with the elite team and another one with the second. The Cuban team is formed by Rolando ...

  • Obama Drones Speech To Lay Out Rationale Reiterate Guantanamo Bay Prison Closure Pledge

    WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will lay out the rationale for U.S. drone strikes in a speech on Thursday, a White House official ...

  • Works by Cuban Landscape Painters on Display in Paris

    HAVANA, Cuba, April 12 (acn) An exhibition by three landscape painters from the Cuban province of Pinar del Rio was inaugurated at the headquarters of the United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization (UNESCO) in Paris, France, by the ambassador of the Caribbean island to that entity, Maria de los Angeles ...

  • Cuban Folklore Stars at Film Festival in Arizona

    HAVANA, Cuba, Apr 12 (acn) The DVD Los Hermanos Arango y las Estrellas del Folclor (The Arango Brothers and the Folklore Stars of Cuba) by the Bis Music Cuban record label, has been selected to be included in the official screenings of 22nd edition of the International Film Festival of Arizona, the United ...

  • Cuba to allow Internet access

    Raul Castro has led Cuba since July 2006 and has been president since Feb. 26, 2008. Since then, he has implemented some progressive reforms in allowing access to technology. Cubans can purchase their own mobile phones and computers.An internal memo seen by Reuters on March 13, 2008, disclosed that Cuba had authorized the unrestricted sale of computers. (Computers first went on sale in Havana, ...

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