UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon welcomed the adoption of the Durban Platform by the Convention on Climate Change, and called for its rapid implementation. The agreements reached in the South African city define how the international community will face climate change in coming years, said the Secretary General, who highlighted the decision to bring forward a protocol or a legal »

The U.S. government has requested that the South District Court of Florida reject the collateral appeals for Ramón Labañino and Fernando González.»

Cristina Fernandez took the oath of office before the Argentinean Legislative Assembly in Buenos Aires this morning, beginning her second presidential term.  The 58-year-old Argentinean president will serve another four year term at the height of her popularity, having won recent elections by an overwhelming majority of the votes.»

The Second Secretary of Cuba´s Communist Party  Jose Ramon Machado Ventura received the Vice-President of Japan´s Communist Party Yasuo Ogata, who  is paying a visit to Cuba at the invitation of the Cuban political organization.»

Eight people have died and more than 4000 families have been affected by heavy rainfall in Venezuela this past week, as areas near Caracas and five states of  the South American nation are the most affected. Heavy rains over the past several days have caused landslides in many areas of Venezuela.»

Carlos Jaime Jimenez, a student of the Olga Alonso Pre-University Institute in the city of Fomento, Sancti Spiritus province, became on Wednesday the winner of First Prize at the 2011 Spanish American Spelling Contest.»

For almost two decades, surgeons are being trained at Camilo Cienfuegos Hospital in Sancti Spiritus, but for the first time specialists from the Latin American School of Medicine graduate here. »

  Rice farmers in this central Cuban province are the second largest rice producers in the country, as they fulfilled the recollection plan for this year. Sancti Spiritus province contributes over 20 percent of the rice consumed (about 40,000 tons), as part of the import reduction program, and more than 110,000 tons of wet rice. Farm Director Orlando Linares said »

The leaders of the member nations of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) demanded on Thursday the end of U.S. almost 50-year-old economic, financial and trade blockade of Cuba. »

  The 17th UN Climate Change Conference began its last day of sessions on Friday, with progresses in some issues, but differences to define a legal regime for new mitigation goals to the highest historic pollutants of the planet. The forum’s main source are the meetings of the Ad Hoc Working Groups of the Kyoto Protocol and the Coop. Committee »