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The Havana-based Center of Biotechnology and Genetics Engineering (CIGB) is producing highly effective antivirals that are being used in the treatment of patients infected with the Influenza A (H1N1) virus in Cuba.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The personality and work of American writer Ernest Hemingway will attract scholars to the 12th International Symposium in Havana June 18-21.

Havana city historian Eusebio Leal will inaugurate the 5th Ibero-American Meeting of Museums and Historic Centers here, with the attendance of experts from Mexico, Brazil, Chile, and Cuba.

Cuba 's Deputy Culture Minister Abel Acosta praised the Puerto Rican artists who were decorated in Cuba with National Culture Distinction during Cubadisco Music Fair to be closed on Sunday in Havana.

Today, 70 percent of children suffering from leukaemia survive, and those who suffer from sicklemia usually live beyond 50 years of age

Deep in the Gulf of Mexico, an end to the 1962 U.S. trade embargo against Cuba may be lying untapped, buried under layers of rock, seawater and bitter relations.

With the main goal to prepare the direction boards and the population for big disaster situations, the popular simulation Meteoro 2009 is to be held this weekend all over the country.

Air France, one of Europe's major airlines, is flying to and from Cuba using Boeing 777-300ER planes, which are equipped with state-of-the-art technology.