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US protesters call for a Voting Rights Bill

Published on: August 29, 2021
11:05

Washington, Aug 29 (Prensa Latina) Thousands of people on Saturday took to the streets in the United States to call for the approval of a federal legislation on the right to vote, stalled in Congress.

Joe Biden is making the same demands as Trump, Iranian leader says

Published on: August 29, 2021
10:52

Tehran, Aug 29 (Prensa Latina) Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Saturday accused President Joe Biden of making the same demands as his predecessor, Donald Trump, at the talks to revive a nuclear deal.

Syria condemns US-led energy war

Published on: August 29, 2021
10:42

Damascus, Aug 29 (Prensa Latina) The Syrian Ministry of Oil and Mineral Resources on Saturday ascribed the hydrocarbon shortage to a real energy war promoted by the United States and allies.

Bandits release 32 Baptist students abducted in northern Nigeria

Published on: August 29, 2021
10:20

Abuja, Aug 29 (Prensa Latina) Nigerian gunmen have freed 32 students abducted in July from a Baptist school in northern Kaduna state, a religious source reported on Sunday.

Carlos Lazo talks about Cuba and emigration at ecumenical center

Published on: August 29, 2021
10:14

Havana, Aug 29 (Prensa Latina) Cuban-American activist Carlos Lazo, leader of the Bridges of Love project, paid a visit to Havana's Martin Luther King Center in order to donate medicines and to talk about emigration issues.

Tlaxcala Convent

Published on: August 29, 2021
01:00

Mexico, Aug 29 (Prensa Latina) The Convent of Our Lady of the Assumption of Tlaxcala, which adorns the slopes of the Popocatepetl volcano is finally registered among the first 14 monasteries of the sixteenth century in Mexico, has been recognized by Unesco as a World Heritage Site.

Versions made in Hollywood

Published on: August 29, 2021
01:00

Havana, Aug 29 (Prensa Latina) One of the most applauded and awarded films in Hollywood cinema in 2006, The Departed, was not an original work, but the remake of a Hong Kong crime thriller released four years earlier with great success and which became a cult piece of Asian cinema: Internal Affairs.

Vintage charm

Published on: August 29, 2021
00:40

Panama, Aug 29 (Prensa Latina) Among narrow streets, surrounded or splashed by water and the breeze of the Pacific Ocean, San Felipe is Panama's second oldest urban center.

Cuban sports movement mourns Giraldo Gonzalez’s death

Published on: August 28, 2021
14:16

Havana, (Prensa Latina) The Cuban sports movement on Saturday lamented the death by Covid-19 of Giraldo Gonzalez, a prominent shortstop of the Pinar del Rio team and the national baseball series. On his Twitter account, the president of the Cuban Sports Institute (INDER), Osvaldo Vento, confirmed the news, which has moved baseball and the entire sports family in the country.

Rejection in Ethiopia to government negotiation with Tigray Front

Published on: August 28, 2021
14:09

Addis Ababa, Aug 28 (Prensa Latina) Academics on Saturday rejected an alleged negotiation between federal authorities and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), considered the greatest threat to peace in Ethiopia.

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