NRI candidate promises Cuba model for UK town

<p style="text-align: justify;">Fri Apr 15 2011, 15:06 hrs London.Amidst major funding cuts, an Indian origin candidate for the May 5 mayoral election in Leicester has gone against the grain and has promised voters that he would resist cuts and instead run the city on the lines of communist Cuba, if elected.Mohinder Farma, who migrated to Leicester from India in 1963, says that Cuba should be the multicultural city's inspiration. Read More

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CNN en Español to offer special coverage from Havana, Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Elena del Valle on April 13, 2011. Starting this week CNN en Español is offering special coverage from Havana, Cuba. Cuba en la Encrucijada (Cuba at the Crossroads), hosted by Juan Carlos López, is scheduled to air April 14 to April 20. As part of the coverage López plans to keep the audience informed on the Sixth Congress of the Cuban Communist Party taking place between April 16 and April 19, 2011. Read More

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World Metrology Experts to Meet in Havana in May

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.04.12 - 20:45:36 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. Havana, Cuba. -Havana’s Convention Center will host the 8th edition of the International Symposium on Metrology, from May 18th through the 20th.Convened by the National Normalization Office, the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment, and the Metrology Research Institute, the event will favor exchanges of experiences between experts and professionals related to this specialty.During the symposium, participants will tackle issues such as metrology techniques and their application in the fields of energy and fuel, the environment, health, industry, nuclear techniques and education. Read More

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Cuba praised for veterinarian training by int'l organization

<p style="text-align: justify;">April 13, 2011. The World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) Tuesday praised Cuba for its efforts in training veterinarians from other countries.Many professionals currently playing important roles or holding positions in veterinary medicine in countries around the world have studied on the island, OIE representative Leopoldo Stuardo Escobar said.Escobar was speaking on the sidelines of the 7th International Congress on Veterinary Sciences held here from April 11 to 14. Over 200 delegates from Cuba and 30 other countries including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Nicaragua are participating. Read More

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Cuba Requests Distribution of Document at the UN Regarding Posada Carriles

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.04.12 - 09:36:57 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. Cuba Requests Distribution of Document at the UN Regarding Posada CarrilesHAVANA, CUBA.- Cuba requested the United Nations on Monday the distribution as an official document of the top international organization of a denunciation by Havana against the acquittal of terrorist Luis Posada Carriles in judicial farce in the United States. Read More

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Libya Accepts AU Peace Plan

<p style="text-align: justify;">Libyan gov't accepts AU peace roadmap, agrees to talks with rebels. Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on Sunday agreed to end conflicts and open political dialogues with rebels, key terms in a "roadmap" to peace proposed by African Union (AU) mediators in the country. Read More

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Cuban Medicament Receives New WIPO Award in Geneva

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, Cuba, Apr 11 (acn) The Cuban medicament Heberprot-P for the treatment of diabetic foot ulcer received in Geneva, Switzerland the prize to the Best Young Inventor by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Read More

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Algeria, Cuba call for immediate ceasefire in Libya

<p style="text-align: justify;">IANS India Private Limited.By Indo Asian News Service. Algiers, April 11 (IANS) Algeria and Cuba have called on all concerned parties in Libya to end clashes and begin peace talks at the earliest, Xinhua reported.In a joint news conference Sunday, Algeria Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci, with his Cuban counterpart Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, said they hoped the 'fighting in Libya would end and dialogues would be launched soon'. Read More

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Algerian-Cuban cooperation, "extremely fruitful," says FM

<p style="text-align: justify;">ALGIERS- The relations between Algeria and Cuba are marked by an "extremely fruitful and concrete" cooperation, said Sunday here Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci. "The long-standing relations between Algeria and Cuba, which are marked by an active solidarity and an extremely fruitful and concrete cooperation in various fields, especially in health, youths and sports," Medelci declared in a press conference held jointly with his Cuban counterpart Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla. Read More

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Cuban Minister, Azerbaijani Writers Union President Meet

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Raquel Maria Garcia Alvarez. Baku, Apr 9 (Prensa Latina) Cuban Culture Minister Abel Prieto Jimenez met with the president of the Union of Writers of Azerbaijan, Anar Rzayev, at the union headquarters in Baku, according to diplomatic sources.The organization was created in 1934, and has 1,500 members and chapters in Russia and Georgia. Read More

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