New Zealand movement of solidarity with Cuba filed a petition to demand that US President Free Cuban 5

The New Zealand movement of solidarity with Cuba filed a petition Friday to demand that US President George W. Bush immediately release five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters from jail. Read More

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Receives Solidarity Award the Russian Ambassador to Cuba

Andréi Dmitriev was presented the award by Cuban Foreign Ministry Felipe Pérez Read More

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Belgium's Sports Minister, and the President of Cuba's INDER Strengthen Sports Cooperation

Belgium's Sports Minister, Michael Daerden, and the President of Cuba's Sports, Physical Education and Recreation Institute (INDER) Cristhian Jimenez, signed a memorandum of cooperation. Read More

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Leaders of the Latin-American popular movements will meet next week in Havana

The leaders of the Latin-American popular movements are to meet next week on Monday to discuss the need to join to fight against the mutations caused by the Washington-sponsored so-called Free Trade agreements for the Americas (FTAA). The meeting has taken the name: Hemisphere Meeting against Free Trade and for Integration. Read More

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Cuba plans 24-hour television channel in the first half of this year with foreign content

Cuba now has five state-run channels, one of which, Cubavision International, can only be seen over cable television. At the beginning of the year, it became Cuba's first channel to broadcast 24 hours a day. Read More

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Cuban National Ballet will travel in April to Egyp and Spain

The Cuban National Ballet (BNC, after its initials in Spanish), lead by the prima ballerina assoluta Alicia Alonso, will travel in April to Egypt as part of a tour that will then move to Spain, where it will end in the last days of May. Read More

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CUBA is to extend services provided by its medical personnel to 81 countries during the year

CUBA is to extend services provided by its medical personnel to 81 countries during the year, announced Alberto González, director of the Ministry of Public Healths Central Cooperation Unit. González reported that work has begun to prepare new groups of collaborators who will travel to countries such as the Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean. Read More

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President Raúl Castro Receives Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation.

The president of the councils of State and Secretaries, Army General Raúl Castro, yesterday afternoon received Igor Evguienevich Levitin, minister of Transport of the Russian Federation. Read More

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Governor of Brazil's Rio state was considering inviting Cuban physicians to help fight the dengue

Governor of Brazil's Rio state Sergio Cabral said Wednesday that he was considering inviting Cuban physicians to help fight the dengue fever epidemic in the country. Read More

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Cuba and nine other nations voted against a standard Open Format proposed by Microsoft

Microsoft won an international standards designation for its open document format, according to a copy of voting results obtained Tuesday, apparently ending a divisive year-long battle with some of its software rivals before a global standards-setting organization. Read More

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