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A teaching polyclinic was inaugurated in the Manuel Tames municipality, in the eastern Cuban province of Guantánamo.

Cuba's best judokas will participate in the tournament, including the medalists in recent continental and world competitions.

Cuban health services are embarked in a nationwide vaccination campaign against flu, mainly aimed at the elderly.

Cuba, which has a strategic location in the Caribbean region, offers its natural, cultural and historic wealth to foreign tourists, who can also benefit from the country's health facilities to improve their quality of life.

Cubans caught their first glimpse of Orlando Hernandez on state television since he fled to the United States a decade ago as authorities aired a documentary in which the New York Mets pitcher vowed he was no traitor.

The Health minister, who is leading his country delegation to the inauguration of President Alvaro Colom, considered the affection of the people and the ever increasing rapprochement between the two peoples as the most significant of that cooperation.

This event will follow in the footsteps of the first conference held in 2003, which gave birth to the World Council of the Jose Marti Project, said Armando Hart Davalos, president of the José Martí Cultural Society.

For the first time, the history of the exploits of Cuban athletes with physical challenges has been compiled; it is entitled «The Forging of Willpower».

Their performance was followed by long applauses that priced the debut of this special orchestra in France.

Sami al-Hajj has been held as an ''enemy combatant'' by the US forces since 2001. He has never been charged. He is one of about 20 prisoners who have carried out hunger strikes in protest of their imprisonment and treatment at the US jail.

The 2007 National Award of Social Sciences will be oficially given to a Rolando Rodríguez García the 15 of Febraury 2008 as part of the activities of the XVII Havana International Book Fair.

On election day, Cubans will vote for 1,201 delegates to the 14 provincial assemblies, renewable every 2.5 years, and 614 parliamentary deputies, who will assume their posts for five years.