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Cuban Energy Minister Presents Plan to Recover Power Generation System
Cuban News Agency
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July 18, 2025
Havana, July 17 (ACN) Cuban Energy and Mines Minister Vicente de la O Levy submitted a government program to the Cuban Parliament on Thursday aimed at recovering the national power generation system, currently undergoing a severe slump with long...
Cuba's National Assembly of People's Power analyzes national energy recovery
Radio Habana Cuba
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July 17, 2025
Second Day of the Fifth Session of Parliament Havana, July 17 (RHC)-- Deputies of Cuba's National Assembly of People's Power are debating the progress of the Caribbean country's energy recovery and the mechanisms of popular control. On Thursday,...
Cuban Parliament urges strengthening legal advice in the country
Cuban News Agency
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July 18, 2025
HAVANA, Cuba, Jul 18 (ACN) The policy for ensuring compliance with laws and other provisions, and strengthening legal advice in the country, was analyzed during the second day of the 5th Ordinary Session of the National Assembly of People's Power...
‘Please, something to eat’: Cubans forced to beg on streets amid economic crisis
The Straits Times
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July 24, 2025
HAVANA - Mr William Abel peers inside a plastic bag he dug out of a trash can in Havana while scrounging for his next meal. It contains rice, vegetables, a meatless chicken bone and flies competing for the spoils. The 62-year-old has been sleeping...
Cuban communist authorities admit economy is in ‘free fall’ with no recovery in sight
CatholicVote - Wisconsin
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July 17, 2025
Cuban officials acknowledged this week that the country’s economic deterioration has reached an alarming point, with no clear path to recovery, Havana Times reported. Speaking before the National Assembly’s Economic Commission July 14, Economy...
Cuba gives green light to Sports System Law
Prensa Latina - Cuba
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July 18, 2025
With the presence of President Miguel Díaz-Canel, the deputies approved the first legal norm that strengthens the conception and execution of Physical Education and Sport for all, and guarantees the full inclusion of people with disabilities. The...
Hypocrisy: U.S. designates Cuba a ‘sponsor of terrorism’ while supporting terrorist attacks
People's World
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July 22, 2025
Illustration: Eduardo Rocha (Simviation) “What is paradoxical and cynical in all this is that the U.S. government designates Cuba as a sponsor of terrorism and includes Cuba in an arbitrary and unilateral list…when any astute and impartial...
Why the New Zealand book industry is ‘freaking out’ about Whitireia Publishing
The Spinoff
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July 24, 2025
On July 16 2025, Whitireia and WelTec announced that it won’t be continuing its Graduate Diploma in Publishing – the only accredited publishing course in New Zealand – beyond this year. What is Whitireia Publishing? Why is it important? And can it...
Deputy PM receives Cuban Deputy FM to strengthen bilateral ties
Vietnam News Agency
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HÀ NỘI – Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Bùi Thanh Sơn hosted a reception in Hà Nội on Wednesday for Cuba's First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Gerardo Penalver Portal, who is visiting Việt Nam from July 22 to 25 for a...
What to do in Madison this week: Horsegirl, Jazz at Five and more Isthmus Picks
Isthmus
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August 4, 2025
Madison Comedy Week, through Aug. 9, various venues: Comedy fans better be rested and ready, because Madison Comedy Week is back Aug. 3-9. The fest is establishing a residency of sorts at the Bur Oak, which will host a taping for a comedy special...
Energy Instability in Rural Puerto Rico: Building Power Structures From the Ground Up
Latino News Network
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July 17, 2025
In this two-part series, Lily Carey reports on energy instability in rural Puerto Rico and its impact on residents with chronic medical conditions. Faced with limited government support, community members have begun building their own power...
A day in the life of Mark Cuban: He reveals his productivity hack — and how everyone can use it
Business Insider
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One of our biggest series this year is Power Hours, an inside look at the daily routines of top executives, founders, and creatives across industries. We want to understand what makes these people tick: why one wakes up at 4:15 a.m. to hydrate and...
Why newly-independent India barred an official from accepting a Cuban honour
Scroll.in
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July 23, 2025
In June 1948, Ashfaque Husain, a senior bureaucrat in India’s Ministry of Education, received an unexpected letter from Havana: he was being awarded a state honour by the Cuban government. “I have the honour to inform you that the National Council...
Cuba: TV movie “Raiz” to Havana Theater and channel Cubavision
Prensa Latina - Cuba
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July 17, 2025
On the small screen, the audiovisual will be presented next Saturday, also at 2:00 PM, in the magazine “Una calle, mil caminos,” as part of the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television’s 2025 summer offerings. According to the published synopsis,...
Cuban PM details economic strains, key reform strategy
Al Mayadeen
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July 17, 2025
Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz outlines the country’s economic performance during the first half of the year and presents a roadmap for the months ahead. Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz delivered a detailed address before the...
U.S. probes foreign links to agriculture research to protect food supply
KASU - Arkansas
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July 23, 2025
The Agriculture Department is applying more scrutiny to research done by its employees alongside noncitizens. The directives, laid out in a memo which went out to USDA employees and research institutions earlier this month, are part of a broader...
Mark Cuban reveals his productivity hack — and everyone can use it
Business Insider
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July 23, 2025
One of our biggest series this year is Power Hours, an inside look at the daily routines of top executives, founders, and creatives across industries. We want to understand what makes these people tick: why one wakes up at 4:15 a.m. to hydrate and...
Unpacking Florida's immigration trends − demographers take a closer look at the legal and undocumented population
WUWF - Florida
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August 4, 2025
This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Matt Brooks is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Florida State University. Karin Brewster is a...
Cuban minister says the island resists U.S. hostility
Radio Habana Cuba
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July 16, 2025
Cuban minister says the island resists U.S. hostility Havana, July 16 (RHC)-- Cuban Minister of Economy and Planning Joaquín Alonso explained to deputies of the National Assembly of People's Power this Wednesday the challenges facing the sector...
Cuban film “Natural Phenomena” to Havana’s Chaplin movie-theater
Prensa Latina - Cuba
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July 17, 2025
This feature-length fiction film won the Lucia Award for Best Fiction at the 19th Gibara International Festival of Low-Fairness Cinema and the Best First Feature Award at the Guadalajara International Film Festival (FICG) 2024. Set in the 1980s,...