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Cuba's efforts to implement programs and measures against climate change were displayed here at a special session of the UN General Assembly.

Called La Caridad de Oriente (The Eastern Charity) and with a membership descendant from the slaves, the group will open a photographic exhibition of René Silveira at the Museum of Cuban Historic Environment, located in one of the oldest buildings of the Americas.

Representatives of Cuba and the Islamic Republic of Iran signed on Thursday their first agreement of scientific cooperation to contribute to their economic and social development.

Almost 4,000 participants in the Sixth International Congress "Universidad 2008" successfully wind up Friday five days of sessions in Cuba, in which they advocated for integrating higher education and societies.

Cuban universities are a model for developing nations, said Georges Haddad, director of UNESCO's Higher Education Division, as he attended an international congress on higher education underway in the Cuban capital.

Brazil will soon begin to produce two medicines developed by Cuban institutions as part of cooperation agreements between the two nations.

As part of the program that Cuba develops in in the fight against cancer, this eastern province of Las Tunas increases the obtaining of poison of blue scorpion for medicinal ends.

Pastors for Peace religious/solidarity organization is currently preparing the 2008 US-Cuba Friendshipment Caravan to the island for next June and July.

Cuban musician Chucho Valdez, Spanish pianist Javier Colina and Argentinean guitarist Luis Salinas are to open Thursday in this capital the Jazz Plaza 2008 Festival, with the attendance of guests from 14 countries.

Cuba's history, since the Spanish conquistadors discovered and colonized the island to date, is present everywhere in both cities and the countryside.

With Raúl Castro, first vice president of the Council of State and Ministers, the 17th International Book Fair was opened, to continue through next February 24 in the San Carlos de la Cabaña Fortress in Havana.

Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque announced that Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone will visit the island later this month, from February 20th to the 26th.

The propaganda machinery has incredibly tried to turn Eliécer Ávila, a student of the Information Sciences University, into a disident star of the Cuban revolutionary process, according to the patterns they usually use to fabricate their disidents.

February is again here to dress up Havana for visitors from all over the world, who come to adore the export jewel of the island at the Habano Premium cigar festival.