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The prima ballerina assoluta Alicia Alonso, general director of the Cuban National Ballet, assured in front of the Egyptian Pyramids of Ghiza that she aims to live for 200 more years in order to give expression to all of the projects and dreams that she has still to do.

A grenade that killed a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan in July 2002 could have been thrown by American forces rather than a young Canadian charged in a Guantanamo war crimes court with murder, a military defense lawyer said on Friday.

The Cuban musician Adalberto Álvarez Zayas, received the tribute for his 35 years of artistic life from the Italian-Latin American Institute (IILA in Spanish) in Rome.

Artemisa, Manzanillo in Granma, and Morón in Ciego de Ávila are the three municipalities that take in the 972 young people that so far are members of this plan. A number that is part of the 11,200 students all over the country who are part of the Futuro project, lead by the Havana University of Information Technologies.

Over 97 000 students from all educational levels attend classes every day in the central Cuban province of Sancti Spiritus.

The 7th Hemispheric Encounter against Free Trade Agreements (FTA) concludes on Friday at Havana’s Convention Center with positive results for unity and action after five days of sessions.

The injustice against the Cuban Five, who were in the U.S. trying to stop terrorism against Cuba and the world, was the center of one of the most passionate moments of the 7th Hemispheric Meeting against Free Trades Agreements.

The United States has begun a new programme to reunite Cuban families, which has renewed the hopes of potential migrants from the island who have family members in the United States. The U.S. government hopes to fulfil the goal of issuing 20,000 immigration visas a year, as agreed in a longstanding bilateral treaty.

The beekeepers from Ciego de Ávila province met the need for new hives on obtaining 5 000 queen bees in their genetic center during the last 14 months.

Nigerian Culture Minister Adetokumbo Kayode confirmed on Friday he will attend the 2008 International Cubadisco Festival, to be held next month in Havana.

Journalists from some fifteen countries of the Caribbean Basin will take part on a regional workshop on hurricane press coverage 14-16 April

The 6th annual Low-budget Film Festival will take place from 14-21 April in the fishermen’s town of Gibara, in the Cuban eastern province of Holguín. According to Humberto Solás, an outstanding Cuban filmmaker and the president of the organizing committee, low-budget cinema is not a dogma or a scheme, but a resource in its own means.