Cuban company resumes production of wheelchairs

HAVANA, April 11 (NNN-ACN) — The Angel Villareal Bravo Mechanical Company, located in the province of Villa Clara(central Cuba), will resume the production of wheelchairs after several years without manufacturing them.Eliel Perez Perez, director of Ciclos Minerva, explained to Granma newspaper that there is a guarantee of financing and the…

Pres Biden ends US COVID-19 emergency status

WASHINGTON, April 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — President Joe Biden on Monday officially ended the COVID-19 national health emergency that for more than three years underpinned extraordinary efforts to provide care for a country where more than a million people died from the disease. The White House said Biden signed a law…

Peru’s President calls for facing climate crisis together and not divided

LIMA, April 11 (NNN-ANDINA) — Pres Dina Boluarte called on regional and local authorities in northern Peru to come together to face the current emergency caused by heavy rains. On Monday, the Head of State led the sailing inspection of the Peruvian Navy Ship (BAP) Pisco which will provide humanitarian aid to…

ITALY: Two migrants dead, 20 missing in Mediterranean – NGO

ROME, April 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — At least two migrants have died and around 20 others are missing after their vessel sank in the Mediterranean between Tunisia and Italy, German aid group ResQship said. The group’s ship, the Nadir, rescued another 22 people and took them to the Italian island of…

France: Two bodies found in Marseille building collapse as rescue efforts continue

MARSEILLE, April 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Two bodies were found in the rubble of a building that collapsed in Marseille following a major explosion, French authorities said, as rescue workers scrambled to find at least six people still unaccounted for. The discovery of the bodies came about 24 hours after the…

France: Rescuers find sixth body after French Alps avalanche

LYON (France), April 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Emergency workers found two more victims of an avalanche near Mont Blanc in southeastern France on Monday, bringing the death toll from the tragedy to six.    A massive body of snow swept down the Armancette glacier in the Alps on Sunday, killing two…

US gun violence: Five killed, at least 6 injured in Kentucky bank shooting

LOUISVILLE (Kentucky, US), April 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Five people were killed and at least six others hospitalized following a shooting targeting a bank Monday in downtown Louisville, in the US state of Kentucky, according to police who said the assailant had been neutralized. Police tweeted that calls had come in…

Nine injured in Swiss Alps avalanche

Nine ski hikers escaped with their lives after being caught by a major avalanche high in the Swiss Alps on Saturday, emerging with only light to moderate injuries GENEVA, April 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Nine ski hikers escaped with their lives after being caught by a major avalanche high in the…

Cuba and India further strengthen cooperation and business

NEW DELHI, April 9 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) — Cuban Ambassador to India Alejandro Simancas extolled the existing will to strengthen bilateral relations in cooperation and the business sector, at a meeting in Kohima on Saturday.     Addressing the “B20” Business Forum, the diplomat expressed interest in strengthening those ties, especially with the…

Cuba and Angola sign agreements at intergovernmental commission

HAVANA, April 9 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) — Representatives of Cuba and Angola signed two memorandums of understanding and the minutes of the fifteenth session of the intergovernmental Commission for economic and scientific-technical cooperation between both countries.     Cuban Vice Prime Minister Ricardo Cabrisas and the Minister of State and head of the…