
Cuba and Bolivia could join BRICS as partner countries as of January 1, 2025, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Riabkov told the Izvestia newspaper.

Japan on Thursday appointed former athlete Seiko Hashimoto president of the Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, to mark greater distance from sexist remarks by the former leader that caused global indignation.
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Novelist and writer Franz Kafka was honored at the 26th edition of the Celestino Short Story Awards, on the occasion of the 120th anniversary of his unfinished novel The Trial.
Read more Franz Kafka honored at Celestino Short Story Awards in Holguín
Music by the popular Failde Orchestra and a recognition to the iconic Sanchez family, from the municipality of Jovellanos, will be part of the ceremony to declare baseball as Cultural Heritage of the nation at the Palmar de Junco stadium, in this city (western Cuba).
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