Articles / News / Cuba / President of Galicia to Begin Institutional Visit to CubaThursday, December 5, 2013 Havana, Cuba, Dec 5.- Alberto Nuñez Feijoo, president of the regional government of Galicia (northwest of Spain), will begin today an institutional visit to Cuba, where he plans to strengthen cultural bonds with the island and express support for the 38,500 Galicians living in it. As informed on Wednesday by the Xunta (the autonomous government of Galicia), Nuñez Feijoo, Read more [...]
MADRID (Reuters) - A sale of nationalized Spanish bank NCG Banco, a former savings bank based in the north-western region of Galicia, should be wrapped up by the end of the year, the head of Spain's bank restructuring fund Fernando Restoy said on Wednesday. Separately, the restructuring fund FROB said in a statement late on Wednesday it had extended the deadline for bids for the lender to December 16 from December 13. The government has said there has been plenty Read more [...]
MADRID Dec 4 (Reuters) - A sale of nationalised Spanish bank NCG Banco, a former savings bank based in the north-western region of Galicia, should be wrapped up by the end of the year, the head of Spain's bank restructuring fund Fernando Restoy said on Wednesday. The government has said there has been plenty of interest in acquiring NCG Banco, one of three banks still controlled by the state following a European bailout of the country's financial sector last year.Spain's three largest banks Santander, Read more [...]
Investors certainly have to be happy with Grupo Financiero Galicia S.A. ( GGAL ) and its short term performance. After all, the stock has jumped by 32.7% in the past 4 weeks, and it is also above its 20 Day Simple Moving Average as well. This is certainly a good trend, but investors are probably asking themselves, can this positive trend continue for GGAL ? While we can never know for sure, it is pretty encouraging Read more [...]

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The strike committee of Halychyna Oil Refinery obliged the managers to pay 3-day wages to HOR employees striking in the capital against Nov. 30 police beating of students, for Ukraine’s Eurointegration and resetting power, our correspondent reports Dec. 3. HOR will also let its personnel to strike at the local rally in Drohobych. There are similar strike committees at many Drohobych companies helping protesters. Read more [...]
If your dziadek and babcia came from Galicia, did they ever say anything about their Ukrainian or Jewish neighbors?The myths that immigrants from Galicia may have passed on to their American children and grandchildren were the starting point of a lecture Nov. 23, in Daemen College's Wick Center. It was presented by Dr. Tomasz Pudlocki, a Jagiellonian historian who was invited to campus by Dr. Andrew Wise, associate professor of history. The lecture was given in support of the initiatives of the exchange Read more [...]
A Bluffton woman and her boyfriend have been missing since Sunday, and the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office is calling the disappearance "suspicious."Margarito Elena Gonzalez-Almazan, 47, and Osman Galicia-Escobedo, 40, were last seen about 3 a.m. Sunday after a family party she hosted at the Shady Glen community center, according to a news release Tuesday.Relatives told deputies the two had argued several times in recent weeks and that Galicia-Escobedo Read more [...]
The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the “suspicious” disappearance of a Bluffton woman and her boyfriend.Margarito Elena Gonzalez-Almazan, 47, was reported missing by relatives just before 8 p.m. Monday, according to a news release. Gonzalez-Almazan was last seen about 3 a.m. Sunday at the end of a family party she had hosted at the Shady Glen Community Center in Bluffton.Relatives told deputies that Gonzalez-Almazan was last Read more [...]

Baby Freddy Cooke did not breathe for 20 minutes after he was born.  His parents were warned that even if he survived he would be severely brain damaged from a lack of oxygen.

But Freddy was given a revolutionary treatment to cool his core body temperature, putting him in a state of induced hypothermia.  He was saved by pioneering ice therapy. 

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