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La Unión de Jóvenes Comunistas convoca a la familia y a los jóvenes a una jornada de trabajo voluntario, los días 30 y 31 de agosto

El mandatario electo paraguayo, Fernando Lugo, envió un abrazo fraterno y cordial al líder de la Revolución cubana, Fidel Castro Ruz, y a su pueblo.

Vietnam y Cuba expresaron la voluntad recíproca de impulsar sus relaciones, calificadas hoy de estrechas, crecientes y fraternales por el presidente Nguyen Minh Triet y el nuevo embajador de la isla, Fredesman Turró.

Cuba fue reelecta para integrar los Consejos de Administración y Explotación Postal de la Unión Postal Universal (UPU), como reconocimiento a su prestigio en diversas instancias de cooperación internacional.

Panama's Vice President Samuel Lewis Navarro, assured that the process for the extradition of terrorist Luis Posada Carriles wil be started as soon as they receive the petition from the Prosecutor’s Office.

With important contributions to the pharmaceutical development of the country, which has led to the substitution of imports with national products, Cuba’s National Center of Bio-Preparations (Biocen) celebrated yesterday its 16 anniversary.

Jamaica’s Minister for Energy, Clive Mullins, received a joint Cuba-Venezuela delegation with the aim of exchanging ideas on an underwater fiber-optic cable project, which promises to benefit the three nations.

The National Prize of the Republic of Cuba 2008, recently granted by the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment to the Construction Transport Enterprise of Pinar del Río TRAYCO, only entity with this title in the province along with other two in the country, endorses the option for the national environmental recognition that today occupies all of its workers.

An exhibition by the Cuban artist Tomás Rodríguez (Tomy) was opened last weekend in the city of Istanbul, one of the biggest cities in Turkey.

With a master lecture given by Dr. Pedro Pablo Rodríguez, from the Cuban Centre for Studies on Martí, was constituted the first José Martí Chair in a Chilean university.

Cuba’s baseball team reached its second victory at the Olympic Games when it defeated Canada  7-6 and remains unbeaten in the tournament.

The Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Arts and Industry (ICAIC, after its initials in Spanish) has launched its program to celebrate its 50 anniversary next 24 of March 2009. The slogan of the program could be “Celebrating the 50, working harder”.

The judo tournament of the 29th Olympic Games in Beijing will end on Friday, when the gold-medal fights in the women's 78-kg category and the men's over-100-kg divisions will be held.

Honduran students who were studying in Cuba are now back in their country, devoting their vacation to working on a project called Dengue Prevention and Eradication, which began on     August 11 and will run until the 16th.