Cuban ebola team nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
The Henry Reeve Brigade is only a small part of Cuba's vast system of medical solidarity help to scores of poorer countries.
Nepal calls for help after nation-devastating quake
The death toll soared past 3,700, even without a full accounting from mountain villages that workers were still struggling to reach two days after the disaster.
Cuba’s infant mortality rate at its lowest level ever
Cuba's infant mortality rate (IMR) for 2014 was 4.2, unchanged from the previous year and again the lowest in Cuban history.
Buried in the back garden: families priced out of decent burials
UK families have been forced to bury loved ones in their back gardens amid an upsurge in "paupers' funerals" caused by rising costs and grant cuts.
Thirty years later, disaster haunts and angers Bhopal survivors
Three decades after lethal gas swept through Bhopal, the central Indian city remains haunted by memories of the world's worst industrial disaster.
Ebola and the challenge to humanity
President of Cuba Raul Castro opening remarks at the Special ALBA Summit on Ebola.
Cuba leads in the fight against Ebola in West Africa
Cuba is the first nation in the world to answer an urgent call for personnel to help stop the spread of Ebola in West Africa and will send 165 medical professionals to Sierra Leone.
Ebola epidemic and African underdevelopment
These are countries of fabulous wealth, whose people live in grinding poverty, the pattern for most of sub-Saharan Africa.
Cuba's "Operation Miracle" celebrated throughout Latin America
The U.S. public knows almost nothing about this internationalized project involving the restoration of vision for enormous numbers of people.
Ecuador national park to be abused for oil exploration
Yasuni National Park is home to many sensitive animal species, as well as two indigenous communities, and is considered one of the most biodiverse places in the world.
