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1200 new marine species identified

<p style="text-align: justify;">After ten years of research, a team of scientists announced in London the largest global study of marine species that contributed 1200 new species of a total of 250 000 classified. Known as the first Census of Marine Life will, it will help to determine how human activity is affecting areas previously unexplored of ecosystems under the sea floor. The study, the most comprehensive of its kind, involved more than 2.700 researchers from 80 countries, conducted 540 expeditions in 9000 days at sea. Read More

Alicia Alonso to Receive Tribute from Royal Ballet

<p style="text-align: justify;">10/09/2010. The Royal Ballet of England will pay tribute to Cuban prima ballerina assoluta Alicia Alonso, in a salute to her 90th birthday, at its first 2010-2011 season performance on October 15. The event will take place at Covent Garden and includes pieces that Alicia Alonso once danced, such as George Balanchine's "Theme and Variations," "Waltz" by Frederick Ashton, and "Winter Dreams" by Kenneth McMillan. Read More

Ahmadinejad urges closer Iran-Cuba ties

<p style="text-align: justify;">President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Iran and Cuba should cooperate on all fronts, saying there is no limit for the promotion of ties with Latin American countries. "The two countries should tap into all their potential to further deepen cooperation and mutual relations," President Ahmadinejad told Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez in Tehran on Sunday. Read More

Pinar: a new city

<p style="text-align: justify;">Thursday, 07 October 2010 16:25. La Popular, former Canosa Hardware has been completely restored. I have always liked this city since childhood, perhaps because I lived in the countryside and it was the only city I knew. The truth is that each visit was a gift for me. By then I was not worried about the movies getting old or about the Milanes Theater, the same where the "Beauty of the Alhambra" was filmed, was in ruins. It really was not that it did not upset me, my child's conscience could not understand such problems. Read More

Cuba Commemorates 142nd Anniversary of the Beginning of Independence Struggles

<p style="text-align: justify;">2010.10.09 - 21:38:12 / [email protected]. HAVANA, Cuba.- President Raul Castro and the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, on Saturday sent floral wreaths that were placed before the monument dedicated to independence hero Carlos Manuel de Cespedes —known as the Father of the Homeland— at the Plaza de Armas in Old Havana during the main national ceremony to commemorate the 142nd anniversary of the beginning of the Cuban independence struggles. Read More

A coup defeated

<p style="text-align: justify;">It is abundantly clear that the police mafia that revolted in Quito and held Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa hostage for most of the day, did not act in defense of the labor victories of the police, as the rebels claimed. The discontent among the uniformed forces over the recent legislative approval of a new public service law, which ultimately benefits them, had to be the result of a campaign of poisoning and disinformation with subversive and putschist objectives. Read More

Two New Discs by the Trabuco

<p style="text-align: justify;">Two new discs by Manolito Simonet y su Trabuco captivate for their proposal. In one, the band continues showing its peculiar way of making 'son', and in another, proves its daring by presenting us a work pretty distant from what it usually plays. In "Beat Cubano" and "Trabuco una vez más", both discs produced by Bis Music, we can see a same group that shows its ability to splitting from an eminently son group into a jazz band, without demeritting its work in any of the two. Manolito Simonet is sure that the genre he defends does not lose its paramount role in the repertoire of this type of groups, if there's room for other musical styles. Read More

Marsalis, Chucho and Omara together in a CD

<p style="text-align: justify;">Cuban singer Omara Portuondo and pianist Chucho Valdes invited US jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis to record on the single, Esta tarde vi llover, for Omara's upcoming album. The famous jazz musician together with the Lincoln Center Orchestra played in Havana a series of concerts. Read More

Church Announces 3 More Cuba Dissidents Freed, Traveling to Spain

<p style="text-align: justify;">October 9, 2010. LA HABANA. The Catholic Church in Cuba announced Saturday that another three political prisoners will be released to go to Spain, making a total of 42 dissidents freed upon accepting that condition. Read More

Cuban Son for NSW

<p style="text-align: justify;">Sunday, October 10, 2010. JJ Son con Idabelis. Cuban band JJ Son con Idabelis is touring NSW until the end of November. The quartet is playing at construction sites, organised by the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU), cultural festivals and solidarity concerts supporting the trapped Chilean miners, political prisoners in Colombia and against the Cuban blockade. Read More