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Havana city will celebrate the II Ernest Hemingway International Colloquium from June 21-24, having the attendance of writers and specialists from diverse countries.

Visual Arts and Bolero will be together during the XXI International Festival Boleros de Oro to be held June 20-24 in Havana, although since June 7, this event started a journey around some other Cuban cities to end on July 1st.

The 17th edition of the Ceará Iberoamerican Film Festival, recently held in the north-eastern Brazilian city of Fortaleza, granted its top awards in the fiction categories to the Brazilian movie Querô, by young filmmaker Carlos Cortez, and also to Cuba's La edad de la peseta (An Awkward Age), by also young Pavel Giroud.

The Cuban dance musical Vida! has proved so popular with Toronto theatregoers that it's being held over at the Royal Alexandra Theatre until June 30th.

Cuba's CIMEX Corporation is undertaking a series of construction works to support the operations of educational centers receiving Latin American students in the country and to benefit the local population in several Cuban provinces.

Cuban lawmaker Jorge Gonzalez praised the work of over 1,000 doctors from his country in Bolivia by noting that nearly five million Bolivians have already been assisted in outpatient consultations. Gonzalez, who is also a physician, heads the Medical and Sports Commission of the Cuban Parliament.

Cuba and host Serbia split their two-game series on Saturday and Sunday in Beograd and Novi Sad in the fourth weekend of competitions of the main annual men's tournament of the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB).

UN Under Secretary General and Executive Director of UN-Habitat, Anna K. Tibaijuka, arrived on Sunday in Havana for an official visit in which she will meet with Cuban authorities to exchange experiences in urban management.

Heroine of the Clandestine Struggle and Outstanding Combatant of the Rebel Army, Vilma Espín Guillois, Passes Away in Havana

The presence of the Puerto Rican singer, Danny Rivera, for second time in this Cuban eastern province of Las Tunas, will be one of the attractions of the Cucalambeana Folkloric Party, Iberian-American festivity that will begin the next June 25th and will run until July 1st, the 178th birthday anniversary of Juan Cristobal Napoles Fajardo (El Cucalambe), maximum inspiring of the event.

A delegation from the Union of Cuban Journalists led by its president Tubal Paez, wound up a visit to China on Monday. Their agenda included meetings with leaders and reporters, press groups of Beijing radio and television and other important cities of this nation, as well as a briefing on the arrangements for the 2008 Olympic Games and the Shanghai 2010 Universal Exhibition.

The Pastors for Peace 18th Friendshipment Caravan to Cuba will start a tour next month of over 120 U.S. and Canadian cities to collect humanitarian aid as a collective challenge to the blockade and travel ban to the island imposed by Washington on U.S. citizens.

In the second half of this year, Personal Code Prepaid Telephone Cards especially designed for the blind will be issued in Cuba. This type of device was first introduced on the island in 1993; and ever since it has grown popular among Cubans. Now, the blind will enjoy its advantages as well. The Cuban National Association of the Blind has a membership of 27,000.

Alberto Pupo equalled his best personal marks set during the last continental championship of athletes under 19 years old

A fascinating exposition using techniques from the new information and communications technologies opens Monday at the Pablo de la Torriente Brau Center and other institutions in Havana.