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Cuba Demands Collective Solutions to World Crisis at UN Assembly

The event included discussions on the current international financial crisis and its effects on the Cuban economy

Cuban factories are closing down and production is being cut at other workplaces as the international financial crisis weighs on the import-dependent Caribbean island, the official media said on Sunday.

A prominent Cuban neurosurgeon said she had received permission to leave Cuba, 15 years after breaking ranks with former leader Fidel Castro over the communist-ruled nation's healthcare system.

Participants in the event, organized by the University of Camagüey, are focusing mainly on the topic of women and the problems they face in today society

Bolivian President Evo Morales arrived to Cuba on Thursday responding to an invitation by Cuban President Raúl Castro.

Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos on Tuesday expressed his appreciation for U.S. President Barack Obama's attitude to Cuba but said that Spain will carry out its own policy towards the island.

In an act of unusual historic significance, the OAS has just formally buried the shameful resolution which excluded Cuba from the Inter-American System in 1962.

In an article, the Cuban leader was dismissive of the arrests of the US citizens for allegedly being spies

HIV/AIDS prevalence index in Cuba is among the lowest in the world and the lowest in the Caribbean, Jorge Perez Avila, deputy director of the Pedro Kouri Tropical Medicine Institute (IPK) has reported.

Seven Cubans who set out for the United States in a rickety plastic foam boat wound up instead in front of the U.S. mission to Cuba on Thursday.

Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo comes to Cuba at the invitation of Cuban President Raúl Castro and heads a delegation made up of several government officials including Paraguayan Foreign Minister Héctor Lacognata

The move came after former journalist Mauricio Funes -- the first leftist leader elected here in 20 years -- was sworn in as president of El Salvador.

A senior adviser with the USA Rice Federation was in Cuba recently to discuss opportunities with ALIMPORT, Cuba's food-buying agency.

Renowned Colombian poet JMario Arbelaez donated 10, 000 Euros to help assist the victims of hurricanes that hit eastern Cuba in 2008. The poet is taking part at the 14th International Poetry Festival, underway in Havana.