30 August 2021 Archives

Cuban President congratulates Paralympic medal winners

Published on: August 30, 2021
17:59

Havana, Aug 30 (Prensa Latina) Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel congratulated today two Cuban medal winners participating in Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, after their respective triumphs in athletics at the summer event.

Millions of students returned to on-site classes in Mexico

Published on: August 30, 2021
17:58

Mexico, Aug 30 (Prensa Latina) About 25 million students of all levels returned today in Mexico to classes after 17 months of confinement in the 32 states of the country, including the capital. The Covid-19 pandemic attacked Mexico in February 2020, and on March 20, with the first death from the disease, the order was given to close schools and that was the last day that more than 25 million students in basic education were in the classrooms of the more than 233,000 centers in the country.

Madagascar driven to first famine due to climate change

Published on: August 30, 2021
12:10

Antananarivo, Aug 30 (Prensa Latina) Madagascar is going through its worst drought in the last 40 years and heads for suffering a famine of catastrophic proportions, according to the report today of a specialized UN agency.

Dominican donation sails the Caribbean Sea to Cuba

Published on: August 30, 2021
12:09

Santo Domingo, Aug 30 (Prensa Latina) A donation of more than 12 tons of medical supplies from the Dominican government sails today through the Caribbean Sea to Cuba in a gesture of solidarity to help face the Covid-19 pandemic.

Tigray Front destroys thousands of schools in Ethiopia

Published on: August 30, 2021
12:05

Addis Ababa, Aug 30 (Prensa Latina) Forces from the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) have destroyed around 7,000 schools in northern Ethiopia, Education Minister Getahun Mekuria denounced on Monday.

Violent attack on banks in Brazilian state kills three people

Published on: August 30, 2021
12:00

Brasilia, Aug 30 (Prensa Latina) At least three people were killed and three others injured after heavily armed criminals attacked three bank branches today in the city of Araçatuba, in the interior of the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo.

Spain makes preliminary assessment of its actions in Afghanistan

Published on: August 30, 2021
11:59

Madrid, Aug 30 (Prensa Latina) Spain evacuated 2,200 people from Afghanistan, most of them with requests for political asylum, while stressing that it is open to operational contacts without recognizing the Taliban regime.

China restructures exams plan to reduce academic overload on students

Published on: August 30, 2021
11:58

Beijing, Aug 30 (Prensa Latina) China on Monday has announced a restructuring in the number of exams to eliminate in some grades and reduce in others, as part of the strategy to lighten the academic overload on children.

Savon lights up Cuban Medal Table in Paralympic Games

Published on: August 30, 2021
11:57

Tokyo, Aug 30 (Prensa Latina) The long jumper Leinier Savón turned on the lights of the medal table for Cuba today at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, by winning silver in the T12 class, for the visually impaired.

Russia denounces Western attempts to influence its elections

Published on: August 30, 2021
10:59

Moscow, Aug 30 (Prensa Latina) Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov denounced today that the West is trying to question the possible results of the next parliamentary elections in the country in a more notable way than in previous campaigns.

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