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Sait Munzur, winner of the Grand Prix at the 15th International Biennial of Humor of San Antonio de los Baños, Havana donated the prize money to the Cuban children

The Cuban team members participating in this competition are, in the main, players who could not make the team selected for the Pan-Am Games.

Cubas 90 district electoral commissions will be established tomorrow and its more than 15,000 neighborhood electoral commissions will be established during the weekend

This unquestionable talent of our scene and letters is satisfied by the welcoming given to his books in the public.

The US team was the only one unbeaten in the preliminary round

Cubans won Wednesday seven medals (four gold, one silver and two bronze), to score 13-5-9, only led by United States 30-35-13.

The Cuban Julio César Herrera, current world-wide champion on the track, confirmed the favoritism and guaranteed the gold medal in the speed test in the XV Pan American Games Rio 2007.

Nearly 150 caravan members of the 18th US-Cuba Solidarity Caravan that with a friendship message travels to the island Thursday

The 38th Contingent of the Venceremos Brigade, the oldest US friendship organization with Cuba, is now in our country and held a meeting with leaders of student and youth organizations

The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said radioactive iodine had leaked from an exhaust pipe at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata prefecture on Japan's north-west coast following Monday's magnitude 6.8 earthquake

The specialists anticipate a close struggle for the gold medals between representatives of Cuba and Brazil in the heaviest divisions in the judo tournament this Thursday.

In the lightweight double skiff, Cuban Yaima Velazquez and Ismaray Marerro conquered the gold medal this Wednesday. The second Cuban gold medal in rowing went to Janier Concepcion and Yoennis Hernandez, in the double skiff event.

Brazilian rescue workers are continuing to search for victims of a plane crash at the main airport in the city of Sao Paulo. For many, yesterdays air crash in São Paulo was an accident foretold. Pilots have long complained about conditions at Congonhas airport, saying that heavy rain makes landing on its short runway dangerous.

Early this week Cuba complained about a slowdown in visa processing at the U.S. post earlier this week. VOA's David Gollust reports from the State Department. The United States said Wednesday it will not meet an agreed quota for visas for Cuban émigrés this year because the Havana government is impeding the work of the U.S. Interests Section in Havana.

ONE person has died and more than 20 have been injured from a steam-pipe explosion in midtown Manhattan, the New York Times has reported.