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Cuban singer songwriter Silvio Rodríguez will be part of the Troubadour Contests jury paying homage to the Mexican painters Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) and Diego Rivera (1886-1957) as it was announced.

Indonesia and Cuba signed a three-year sports agreement for the Island to assist in the development of several sports in the Southeast Asian country. Indonesian Assistant Youth and Sports Minister Hari Setiono noted that both countries will strengthen cooperation in physical education, event organization and joint training, as well as exchanging information.

Katrina, one of the most devastating hurricanes in history, was removed from the list of names annually assigned to the Northern Atlantic hurricane season. An international hurricane committee of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) "sanctioned" hurricanes Katrina, Dennis, Rita, Stan and Wilma, because they cost a number of deaths and damage after their destructive passing through the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, Central America and the southeastern coasts of the United States.

Museologists from 12 countries noted the high value of Cuba's underwater archeology, due to its unprecedented capacity to preserve the submerged cultural and patrimonial wealth. Cuban expert Alessandro Lopez gave a lecture on underwater archeology at the Fourth Ibero-American Meeting of Museums and Historic Centers, which opened on Tuesday in Havana and is being attended by 167 specialists from the region.

Some 200 poets from all five continents planted a tree to honor poetry as prelude of Havana International Poetry Festival Monday, celebrated annually at Havana city. The literary festival, to happen until June 2 dedicated to Africa and the Caribbean Islands, will be formally inaugurated Tuesday during the signing of twining agreements with other similar events in the world

Cuban boxer Guillermo Rigondeaux (54kg) has won 357 fights and lost only 5.

Representatives from around 100 U.S. companies were continuing negotiations begun here yesterday with Cubas food import company ALIMPORT, with the expectation that contracts will be signed for more than $100 million.

The concurrence of actions taken to provide attention for older adults was evidenced during a meeting between Carlos Lage, vice president of the Cuban Council of State, and Li Xueju, Chinese minister of civil affairs.

The revolutionary government of Cuba never forgot the Sierra Maestra mountains. For the last five years the massif that surrounds the island's southeast has been witness to the arrival of new technology that enables inhabitants to keep in touch with the rest of the world.

Based on the principle of equal opportunities for all citizens, Cuba is giving priority to the educational system in the mountains, a Government official said on Monday. Rosa Alvarez, Ministry head of Planning and Statistics, told Prensa Latina that all programs underway in the sector benefit students in remote areas, as part of the Turquino Plan that is applied in 10 provinces and 55 municipalities.

He lived at the end of the 19th Century in Cuba. He was one of the many fearless people from the Oriental land that immigrated to this island in pursuit of fortune. His name was Cham Bom Biam. He began his medicine studies in his native country until he decided to venture in a contract to make agricultural work in Coliseo at Matanzas province.

Even when the water levels of the rivers that overflowed Friday the city of Camaguey go down, the measures of evacuation and protection dictated by the Provincial Civil Defense still stand, because of two reasons the saturation of the soil and the prevalence of rains.

UN-AIDS (Joint United Nations Program on HIV AIDS) coordinator for Jamaica, Bahamas and Cuba, Miriam Maluwa, expressed the complete satisfaction of that organ with the projects of this nation to confront the pandemic.

A special presentation of the documentary "Cuba Libre" by director Omelio Borroto (Mundo Latino), took place at the Biblis Cultural Center in Rome, Italy. The film narrates the 1956 voyage of the Granma yacht that brought a handful of young men from Mexico to Cuba to begin the Cuban revolution.

One of the most awaited concerts of Cubadisco 2007 took place on the event when the Cubadisco Orchestra played a concert devoted to movie soundtracks. Roberto Valera, the orchestras conductor, said that the idea for the concert came from Ciro Benemelis, president of Cubadiscos Organizing Committee, after the committee decided to dedicate this years event to movie soundtracks.