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Gina D’Soto: “I want people in Cuba to get to know my music”
OnCuba News
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July 30, 2025
Regina Soto Sirgado (Havana, July 3, 1997), known professionally as Gina D’Soto, is a Cuban jazz and R&B singer and songwriter. From a young age, she took responsibility for her artistic training to develop the talent and passion that define her....
Songo: Cuba’s Rhythmic Revolution That Redefined Dance Music
teleSUR
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July 30, 2025 Hour: 3:25 pm In the early 1970s, Cuba’s musical landscape underwent a seismic shift with the birth of Songo, a genre that fused Afro-Cuban tradition with global influences to create a rhythm both modern and unmistakably Cuban....
Inside ‘lost’ 6,000-year-old underwater city on coast of Cuba with stone structures 2,000ft below sea’s surface
The Sun
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July 30, 2025
A MYSTERIOUS “lost city” lying 2,000 feet beneath the waves off Cuba has baffled scientists for more than two decades — with claims it could rewrite the history of human civilisation. Marine engineer Paulina Zelitsky and her husband, Paul...
At Aspen Art Week, Bigger Fairs and Serious Collectors Make for a High-Altitude Market Bet
Art in America
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July 30, 2025
Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday. By late July, Aspen’s social calendar runs on high-altitude overdrive. The Food & Wine...
Rep. Hinson talks No Tax on Tips, insurance, social media at roundtable in Buchanan County
KGAN - Iowa
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INDEPENDENCE, Iowa — Iowa Congresswoman Ashley Hinson stopped by an Independence restaurant Tuesday to discuss the new "No Tax on Tips" guidelines. She met with public service employees to answer questions. They also talked about healthcare,...
How Cubans Have Been Affected by the Data Rate Hike
Havana Times
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July 30, 2025
Since May 30, Etecsa limited top-ups in Cuban pesos and raised internet browsing costs. / 14ymedio The price increase reduces online activity to the essentials and makes video calls an unreachable luxury for many Cubans. By Natalia Lopez Moya...
July 30: Day of the Martyrs of the Cuban Revolution
Radio Habana Cuba
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July 30, 2025
Havana, July 30 (RHC)-- Cuba commemorates today the Day of the Martyrs of the Revolution. This day epitomizes the perennial tribute and remembrance to the more than 20,000 Cubans who lost their lives in the effort to overthrow Fulgencio...
Cuba observes Day of the Martyrs of the Revolution
Prensa Latina - Cuba
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July 30, 2025
The date was chosen in 1959 and also coincides with the murders of Frank Pais and Raul Pujol, young men captured in Santiago de Cuba as a result of a tip-off and later brutally shot by the tyranny’s repressive force. With Frank’s death, the July...
Cuba ratifies zero tolerance against human trafficking
Prensa Latina - Cuba
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July 30, 2025
He stated this on his profile on the social media platform X on the occasion of today’s celebration of the World Day Against Human Trafficking. “We are working tirelessly to prevent this serious scourge, through coordinated action by the State and...
Cuban couple left emotional during first visit to COSTCO after escaping poverty-stricken Communist home nation
Daily Mail
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July 30, 2025
By NOA HALFF Published: 10:43 EDT, 30 July 2025 | Updated: 10:47 EDT, 30 July 2025 A Cuban couple who escaped their poverty-stricken communist homeland were left overwhelmed during their very first visit to an American Costco. Marissa and Yoel...
The lost art of taking a long, boozy lunch
AOL
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The Lost Art of Taking a Long, Boozy Lunch Slim Aarons - Getty Images "Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Every year or two, the weekday business lunch—sometimes called the power lunch, in...
Offaly music event returns this weekend with family-friendly fun, games, and entertainment
Offaly Live
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July 30, 2025
GET ready for one of Banagher’s most anticipated events of the summer – Beat on the Street is back on Saturday next, August 2nd 2025, bringing fun, music, and a fantastic community spirit to the heart of the town. From 12pm to 3pm, Banagher’s Main...
Cuba loses to Brazil and finishes winless at the U19 Volleyball World Cup
Cuban News Agency
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July 30, 2025
HAVANA, Cuba, Jul 29 (ACN) Cuban men's team lost 0-3 to Brazil today and bowed out of Group D of the U19 Volleyball World Championship, held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, without a victory. After falling to South Korea 0-3, the United States 1-3,...
Cuba-Algeria for places 17 to 24 at U-19 Volleyball World Championship
Cuban News Agency
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July 30, 2025
HAVANA, Cuba, July 30 (ACN) The Cuban men's national team will play Algeria today in the first match for the places 17 to 24 of the U-19 Volleyball World Championship, held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The Cubans finished sixth and last in Group D...
Cuban wrestler Orislandy Perdomo to attend Junior Pan American Games Asuncion 2025
Cuban News Agency
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July 30, 2025
HAVANA, Cuba, Jul 29 (ACN) Wrestler Orislandy Perdomo Brooks, a native of the 13 de Marzo community in Melena del Sur, in the western province of Mayabeque, is one of the eight athletes who will represent Cuba at the 2nd Junior Pan American Games...
Cuban man marvels at Costco food choices and American abundance
KLIN News Talk - Nebraska
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July 30, 2025
Yoel Diaz and Marissa Diaz, a married couple originally from Cuba, have gone viral on social media for sharing their journey in America — including their views of the vast number of food choices here. They spoke to Fox News Digital. NEWYou can now...
Salaries in Cuba: Working for Almost Nothing
Havana Times
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July 30, 2025
The government has acknowledged that Cubans must spend nearly 70% of their income just on food. By Amado Viera HAVANA TIMES – Many Cubans still remember the Roundtable TV shows that, at the end of 2020, Marino Murillo Jorge dedicated to...
7 Closed Dallas Music Venues We Miss the Most
Dallas Observer - Texas
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July 30, 2025
Like the floor of the pit after a chaotic crowd has left, Dallas' history is littered with unforgettable music stories. A bouncer and Kurt Cobain coming to blows at Trees. Dennis Rodman and Madonna are pulling up to the Lizard Lounge and offering...
Global South Media Forum opens in Caracas
Prensa Latina - Cuba
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July 30, 2025
Sponsored by the Venezuelan Ministry of People’s Power for Foreign Affairs, the meeting seeks to foster plural and inclusive discourse, so more than 2,000 people will participate via videoconference. “Faced with the media blockade, one of the most...
Disastrous third day for Cuban swimmers at World Championships
Cuban News Agency
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July 30, 2025
HAVANA, Cuba, July 29 (ACN) Cuban swimmers Vladimir Hernández and Andrea Becali had awful results on the third day of 2025 World Aquatics Championships in Singapore, scoring times by no means near their personal bests in the 800m and 200m...