Obama lifts ban on transferring Guantanamo Bay detainees to Yemen

Times of India - Friday 24th May, 2013

Guantanamo Bay detainees to Yemen , a step toward his goal of closing the US military-run prison that he said "has become a symbol around the world for an America that flouts the rule of law." Nearly 100 of the 166 terrorist suspects held at the prison in Cuba are from Yemen and have had nowhere to go even if they had been cleared for transfer. Obama wouldn't send them home, and ...

Cuban Projects Tackle Food Sustainability and Climate Change

ACN - Friday 24th May, 2013

CAMAGUEY, Cuba, Apr 23 (acn) Cuba will implement this year in three municipalities a project whose experiences will later be spread countrywide to achieve sustainability in the agriculture, taking into account the adaptation to climate ...

Cubana de Aviacion Reinforces its Fleet With a New AN-158

ACN - Friday 24th May, 2013

HAVANA, Cuba, Apr 23 (acn) A new Antonov 158 (AN-158) aircraft manufactured in Russia and Ukraine joined the fleet of Cubana de Aviacion airline and it will cover, starting in May, the Havana-Guantanamo route, five times a week, and Havana-Santiago de Cuba, on daily ...

Endemic Bird Festival to Run Today in Cuban Semi-desert

ACN - Friday 24th May, 2013

GUANTANAMO, Cuba, Apr 23 (acn) The festival of Caribbean endemic birds, a theoretical and practical activity to disseminate knowledge about Cuban birdlife, will kick off today in the municipality of San Antonio del Sur, capital of the only semi-desert in Cuba. ...

Visually Impaired Children Hold their First Artistic Festival

ACN - Friday 24th May, 2013

HAVANA, Cuba, April 8 (acn) The first artistic and literary festival of visually impaired children residing in Havana was held Sunday in a downtown movie theater and it was dedicated to the 7th Congress of the National Association for the Blind (ANSI), to take place in ...

Nicaraguan Business Mission to Visit Cuba

ACN - Friday 24th May, 2013

HAVANA, Cuba, April 8 (acn) A group of Nicaraguan entrepreneurs will visit Cuba in May to explore business opportunities, based on the benefits contributed by the use of the new regional currency known as ...

Judo Cuba Wins Six Titles in Pan American Cup

ACN - Friday 24th May, 2013

HAVANA, Cuba, Apr 23 (acn) Cuba's judokas left San Jose, Costa Rica, after achieving six gold medals, one silver and one bronze in the Pan American Cup, held in the in Hatillo Sports ...

All Cubans Wins Medals in the Visotski Boxing Memorial

ACN - Friday 24th May, 2013

HAVANA, Cuba, Apr 7 (acn) The six Cubans attending the Yakov Antonovich Visotski Boxing Memorial had an excellent performance when reaching four scepters and two bronze ...

Cuban Health Workers Support their Colleagues in Venezuela

ACN - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

HOLGUIN, Cuba, April 18 (RHC) Workers at the Alcides Pino healthcare center in this eastern Cuban province expressed their full support of their colleagues working in Venezuela and their will to keep contributing to friendly relations between Havana and ...

Cuba goes for its new president

Pravda - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

The National Assembly of Cuba re-elected Raul Castro as president (head of the State Council and the government). Miguel Diaz-Canel was elected first vice-president of the State Council, which means that in five years he could be Raul's successor. The President promised Cubans revenue growth, but warned that the new society would no longer be the society "of ...

UPDATE 2-Canadian businessman goes on trial in Cuba for corruption

Reuters - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

Thu May 23, 2013 9:29pm EDT * Importer faces up to 12 years in prison * Trials of more foreign businessmen expected * Corruption arrests unprecedented in Cuba (Updates with end of trial's first day) By Marc Frank HAVANA, May 23 (Reuters) - A Cuban court on Thursday wrapped up the first day of testimony in the graft trial of a Canadian businessman whose prosecution is part of a corruption ...

Key dates in the history of Guantanamo Bay detention centre

Canada.com - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

FILE - In this July 16, 2009 file photo, reviewed by the U.S. military, flags hang above the sign marking the Camp Justice compound, the site of the U.S. war crimes tribunal, at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. President Barack Obama's speech national security speech Thursday is expected to reaffirm his national security priorities _ from homegrown terrorists to killer drones to the ...

Cuba and Vietnam Strengthen Bonds in Higher Education

ACN - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

HAVANA, Cuba, Apr 18 (acn) Higher Education Minister (MES) Rodolfo Alarcon signed an agreement on Wednesday with the Minister of Education and Training of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Phan Vu Luan, to strengthen bilateral cooperation in ...

Cuban Sports Shooter Leuris Pupo Gets Central American Gold

ACN - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

HAVANA, Cuba, April 18 (acn) Cuban Leuris Pupo, Olympic Champ at London 2012, got the gold at the individual 25-meter fast pistol modality of the Central American and Caribbean Sports Shooting Championship, underway in ...

Cuban Experience in Disaster Prevention Praised

ACN - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

HAVANA, Cuba, Apr 18 (acn) Doctor Marta Sandoya, president of the Latin American Association of Cooperation in Emergencies and Disasters (ALACED), based in Panama, highlighted on Wednesday in this capital the efficiency of the Cuban prevention system in the face of these ...

Sociologist Income levels of Mariel migrants lower than earlier Cuban exiles

Miami Herald - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

Yoani Sánchez, one of the most influential figures in the Cuban dissident movement, arrived Thursday afternoon at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City to begin one of the most important stages of her international ...

Fidel Castros love of baseball inspires son to play leading role in Olympic bid

Inside the Games - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

The IOC will vote on whether to include one of the following sports in the 2020 Olympic programme on 8 September 2013 at the 125th IOC Session in Buenos ...

Cuban artist’s portraits of women simply stunning

General Sources - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

CUBAN artist Lula Azorey is having a solo exhibition and this is a chance to immerse yourself in two- and three-dimensional artworks. Using a minimalistic approach, her works are based on formal associations and uniquely poetic. A majority of the artworks were created using the mosaic technique, and the portraits of women, especially, are simply ...

Huge Cuban Hotel Project Demands Designers

ACN - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

HAVANA, Cuba, May 13 (acn) A huge tourist investment aimed at building a large number of hotels on the keys off the northern Cuban coast demands the services of many designers from all companies, said the executive secretary of the Design Office Jesus ...

Raul Castro Presides Over Meeting of the National Defense Council

ACN - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

HAVANA, Cuba, May 13 (acn) Army General Raul Castro, president of the Councils of State and Ministers, headed a meeting on Saturday of the National Defense Council, and he described as satisfactory the ...

Comprehensive Child Protection the focus of a Cuban Intl. Forum

ACN - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

HAVANA, Cuba, May 8 (acn) Comprehensive protection of children in case of breakup of their parents will be the focus of a panel on Wednesday, during the second session of the 7th International Conference on Family Law, a forum bringing together, in this capital, jurists from eight ...

Video Obama renews pledge to close Guantanamo Bay

The Globe and Mail - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

President Barack Obama announced a renewed push to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba, including lifting a moratorium on prisoner transfers to ...