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Intl Day of Sign Languages

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Sign language is part of everyday life in the world. The date is a unique opportunity to support and protect the linguistic identity and cultural diversity of all deaf people and other users of sign language. According to the World Federation of the Deaf, there are currently 72 million deaf people on the planet.

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Intervention by Miguel Mario Díaz –Canel Bermúdez, President of the Republic of Cuba, in the general debate of the 75th Regular Period of Sessions of the United Nations General Assembly

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A global pandemic has changed everyday life drastically. From one day to the next, millions of people get infected and thousands die even when their life expectancy was longer thanks to development. Hospital systems with high-level services have collapsed and the health structures of poor countries are affected by their chronic lack of capacity.

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Noam Chomsky warns about the possibility of a new civil war in the United States

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Today is a “remarkable, unique, important moment,” Noam Chomsky described. “Difficult” but at the same time “full of hope for a better future”. It is a moment of “confluence of different very strong crises” and without borders: “environmental catastrophes, threat of nuclear war, pandemic, destruction of democracy.” The linguist also warned of an “imminent risk” of civil war in the United States.

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Non-state sector: Banco Metropolitano reports on facilities to open accounts in MLC

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Banco Metropolitano reported today on the offer of a service to open current accounts in freely convertible currency (MLC) for non-state forms of management. Through a press release, the institution explained about the implementation of the necessary mechanisms to guarantee the process of opening current accounts in MLC for Cuban natural and legal persons who carry out foreign trade activity.

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China urges US to stop intimidation against TikTok and WeChat

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China on Saturday accused the United States of acts of “intimidation” by banning the download of the TikTok and WeChat applications from Sunday, and threatened to retaliate . “If the United States persists in its unilateral actions, China will take the necessary measures to resolutely protect the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese companies,” the Chinese Ministry of Commerce said in a statement.

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President of the Cuban People’s Supreme Court denounces the creation on Twitter of a parody account of that institution

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The president of the Supreme People’s Court of Cuba (TSP), Rubén Remigio Ferro, described this Friday as desperate the creation on Twitter of a parody account of that institution , the highest in the country’s justice system. Indecency, despair and lack of scruples lead them to use the dirtiest and most heinous methods, to try to confuse.

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The National Botanical Garden grows outward and inward

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The National Botanical Garden is closed to the public during these tight times, having broken its visitation record for one day after it reopened in the summer. But this group does not stop in the face of adversity. Their projections grow outward and inward of that beautiful place in the city.

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Justice of the United States Supreme Court, passes away

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United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died today of cancer at the age of 87 , just weeks before the November 3 general election. In the statement that announced his death, the head of that court, John Roberts, said that the United States lost a jurist of historic stature and all the magistrates “have lost a dear companion.”

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Speech delivered by Dr. Fidel Castro Ruz, President of the Republic of Cuba, at the foundation ceremony of the ‘Henry Reeve’ International Contingent of Doctors

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Speech delivered by Dr. Fidel Castro Ruz, President of the Republic of Cuba, at the foundation ceremony of the ‘Henry Reeve’ International Contingent of Doctors Specialized in Disaster Situations and Serious Epidemics, and the national graduation of students of Medical Sciences, in the Ciudad Deportiva, on September 19, 2005.

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A message for promoters of the blockade: No one here surrenders

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Trump has extended for another year the Trading with the Enemy Act that sustains the U.S. blockade of Cuba. The siege is tightened and the harassment stepped up, the maliciousness and perversity continue. A cruel, inhuman blockade. But no one here surrenders, responded President of the Republic Miguel Díaz-Canel, via Twitter, quoting Comandante Juan Almeida Bosque.