New York_ Leaders of the National Council of Churches of the United States met Thursday in New York with Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, and pledged to further promote the cause of the lifting of the blockade.

New York_ Over the next ten years, the United Nations Family Agriculture Decade will help to focus global efforts to eradicate hunger and malnutrition, lift the rural population, largely of women, out of poverty and safeguarding natural resources, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva said.