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More than one thousand athletes have already confirmed their presence in the Fourth Cuban Sports Olympiad that will take place on April 12-26 in the islands 14 provinces and the Isle of Youth Special Municipality.

The Fifth International Symposium on Sustainable Management of Forest Resources will take place in the westernmost province of Pinar del Rio on April 23-26 with the participation of researches and specialists from nearly 20 countries.

Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone affirmed this in an interview today with Vatican Radio and L'Osservatore Romano, to be aired and printed Saturday.

Cuban director Octavio Cortazar, maker of the documentary "Por primera vez," and the feature fiction film "El brigadista" died suddenly at the age of 72 in Spain, while he was teaching a course in film production.

Cuban cigar sales rose 7 percent to US$402 million (€270 million) in 2007, Habanos S.A., the government-run tobacco company announced on Wednesday.

You hear the word Cangamba and you may find yourself thinking of Kwanzaa Party. Wrong. Or perhaps your memory will start to revive early World Music hits that made it to the American Top Forty in the 60s and 70s, such as Miriam Makebas Pata-Pata, or Manu Dibangos Soul Makossa. Wrong again.

Three Chinese TV channels are being broadcast in 45,400 hotel rooms in Cuba.

THE 10th International Conference of Economists on Globalization and Problems of Development takes place next Monday through Friday in the capitals International Conference Center and Palco Hotel.

Though the facts are not widely reported around the world, Cuba supplies aid to a number of countries and one of the biggest aid schemes is in Bolivia.

Speaking to reporters at the White House, Bush reiterated U.S. allegation that Cuba is ''suppressing human rights.'' U.S. President George W. Bush reviled on Thursday Cuba's new President Raul Castro as a "tyrant," and refused to have dialogue with him.

Quiz Cubans on their new president and you're as likely to hear about Hillary Rodham Clinton, John McCain and Barack Obama as Raul Castro.

Cuba will only jump on the ethanol bandwagon if it can produce the biofuel from sugar cane as a by-product that does not affect its sugar output, local experts said.

Hoyo de Monterrey and H.Upmann Premium cigars are the main attractions at the 10th Havana Cigar Festival, attended by more than 1,000 delegates from 50 countries.

Actions to celebrate Ernesto Che Guevara's 80th birth anniversary in his hometown of Rosario, where the first statute to the Heroic Guerrilla will be unveiled in Argentina, are moving along according to reports.

Cuba is to sign Thursday at the United Nations headquarters in New York the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Pact and the Civil and Political Rights Pact.