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Representatives from six countries of the Pacific Islands Forum visited on Thursday the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB) in Havana.

Cuba is repaying debts to farmers and promising higher prices for milk and meat in an attempt to increase flagging food production in a society that depends on the state for most of what it eats.

Hundreds of Apple fans, or their paid stand-ins, lined up on Friday to be the first buyers of Apple Inc.'s new iPhone, a music and video playing phone that seeks to change the mobile industry.

In a surprising rare reversal, the Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider whether prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had been wrongly held for years without a fair chance to plead their innocence.

Saint Vincent and Grenadines' Prime Minister and President of CARICOM, Ralph Gonsalves, said this organization of Caribbean states will further encourage its relations with Cuba, Venezuela and the Dominican Republic in 2008 to the benefit of regional development.

The Cuban legislature meets in full on Friday at the Havana Convention Center, with an agenda that includes reports from the Attorney General and the Supreme Court.

Making optimum use of the massive resources that the Cuban government is investing in the rehabilitation of the countrys transportation network demands a high level of organization, commitment and efficiency from workers and officials at all levels. This was expressed by Transportation Minister Jorge Luis Sierra at the Cuban parliament on Thursday.

Cuba's First Vice President Raul Castro Ruz is attending the Cuban Parliament's Ninth Ordinary Session, taking place in Havana's Convention Center. The working agenda of the Cuban Parliament includes a document on the payments to the members of the Small Farmers Association, as well as the reports by the island's General Attorney's Office and the Supreme Court.

The Cuban musical tradition has its origins in the most authentic elements of the culture and history of the island. Even the Cuban aboriginal population had certain musical tradition known as Areito.

The Cuban health system, a model for the world, will be present Thursday at the US Social Forum taking place in Atlanta, Georgia.

The CIA released hundreds of pages of internal reports Tuesday on agency misconduct that triggered a scandal in the mid-1970s over domestic spying.

Alma sin bolsillo (Pocketless Soul) is the Cuban rock band Moneda Dura's latest CD and DVD. The work is released four years after the other successful title Callejero.

The eighth edition of the "Arte en la Rampa" Fair will run at the Cuba Pavilion from June 30 through September 2.

The Eighth Havana Fine Arts Fair will link Cuban and foreign public with the creators of the island from Saturday, on La Rampa, a central Havana avenue.

Cuban Grand Master (GM) Leinier Domínguez tied on Wednesday with Ukrainian Vassily Ivanchuk after 36 moves of a Sicilian Defense in the ninth round of the strong international chess tournament of Airosvist, currently underway in the city of Foros, Ukraine.