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November 7th

China Predicts a Rise in Inflation for 2011

<p style="text-align: justify;">Escrito por Martin Hacthoun. sábado, 06 de noviembre de 2010. 11:10Beijing, Nov 6 (Prensa Latina) China''s inflation rate will climb above 4 percent next year, with inflationary pressures peaking in the first few months of 2011, predicted Zhu Baoling, a researcher with the country''s State Information Center. Read More

Obama Kicked Off in India his Asian Tour

<p style="text-align: justify;">Mumbai, India, Nov 6 (Prensa Latina) U.S. President Barack Obama started Saturday his visit to India in Mumbai discussing business, as part of an Asian tour that will also take him to Indonesia, South Korea and Japan. Read More

Old Havana Promotes Tourism with Belgian Culture

<p style="text-align: justify;">One of Cuba's most attractive spaces, Old Havana, will promote awareness of Belgian culture through guided tours by experts from the City Historian's Office. In this regard, that office is preparing a plan of activities to celebrate Belgian Culture Week, November 8-15, said a statement from the Habaguanex SA company. Bruno Vekemans' work (Belgium, 1952) depicts solitude and empty spaces, portraits of peace and simple people. Read More

Urgellés satisfied with his return to Cuban baseball team

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Lemay Padrón Oliveros. After arriving from Chinese Taipei, where he played with the Cuban team in the gold medal game of the recently concluded Intercontinental Baseball Cup, outfielder Yoandry Urgelles could not hide his joy at having returned to the national team. Although his performance was not decisive as four years ago, when he was the crucial man in the final game against the Netherlands, it was gratifying for the feared left-handed hitter to return to top level after three seasons full of injuries. Read More

New York Philharmonic granted U.S. permission to travel to Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">November 5, 2010. The United States finally authorized a license for the New York Philharmonic Orchestra to visit Havana next year, said a spokesman for the orchestra in an address late on Thursday, says the New York Times. The orchestra was in Luxembourg, completing a European tour, when it knew the communication. Last year, the Philharmonic canceled the trip because the Department of the Treasury had refused permission for their sponsors Read More

A statement from the plane's manufacturer

<p style="text-align: justify;">Statement from Avions de Transport Régional, based in Toulouse, France: ATR regrets to confirm that an ATR 72-212 operated by Cuba’s Aero Caribbean was involved in an accident yesterday at 5:40 pm (local time) near to Sancti Spiritus (Cuba). Read More

Catholic mission returns from Cuba today

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Miami Herald Staff. Miami's Archbishop Thomas Wenski returns to South Florida today from a three-day visit to Cuba undertaken by a delegation of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Read More

November 6th

Cuba recovers final bodies from plane wreckage

<p style="text-align: justify;">By PAUL HAVEN, Associated Press Paul Haven, Associated Press – 2 hrs 57 mins ago. HAVANA – Recovery teams removed the last charred bodies from the wreckage of an airliner that went down in mountainous central Cuba, as officials vowed Saturday to get to the bottom of what caused the crash and said they have the capacity to do it alone. Read More

Hurricane Tomas leaves Cuba, no casualties

<p style="text-align: justify;">English.news.cn 2010-11-06 15:26:38. HAVANA, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) -- Hurricane Tomas has not caused any casualties or severe damage so far in its path close to the eastern tip of Cuba, the Civil Defense authorities said here on Friday night. Read More

Cuba lost to Netherlands in the women's volleyball world

<p style="text-align: justify;">Saturday, 06 November 2010 06:32. Cuba lost 3-1 to Holland in the first day of the second round of the Championship XVI Volleyball Women's World Cup, in match of Group F based on the Japanese city of Nagoya. According to the contest Web&nbsp; site, the two partial odds were the first and fourth, with wins for Cuba, 25-22, and European, 25-20, respectively, as the&nbsp; Dutch won the second and third with identical markers 25-12. Read More