Bruno Rodriguez, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party and Minister of Foreign Affairs, met on Wednesday in this capital at the Foreign Ministry with his counterpart of Benin, Nassirou Bako-Arifari, who is on an official visit to Cuba.

President Raul Castro saw off an 83-member medical brigade that will fight Ebola in Africa, particularly in Liberia and Guinea Conakry, two nations hard hit by poverty, which is a major source for the terrible disease.

Miguel Diaz-Canel, First Vice-president of the councils of State and Ministers, met on Tuesday morning with Ahmed Üzümcü, Director General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), on the occasion of his work visit to Cuba.

The Juan Rius Rivera 23rd solidarity brigade to Cuba , from Puerto Rico, which is made up by nearly 50 members, will be received today in this city, in the afternoon.

Bolivia´s Evo Morales and Venezuela´s Nicolas Maduro agreed on the success of a recent summit of the countries within the regional bloc known as Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of the Americas-Commercial Treaty of the Peoples, ALBA-TCP, which addressed a joint strategy against the Ebola virus.

Cuban President Raul Castro addressed the Heads of State and Government of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Trade Treaty of the Peoples (ALBA-TCP) and its observers that gathered in Havana in a Special Summit on Ebola.

Heads of State and Government of the member countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Trade Agreement of Peoples (ALBA-TCP) arrived in Havana for an Extraordinary Summit to join efforts in the international fight against Ebola.

Cubans in the city of Santa Clara paid tribute to Cuban-Argentinean guerrilla fighter Ernesto Che Guevara, on the 17th anniversary of the laying to rest of his mortal remains in a Mausoleum of this central Cuban city.

Cubans will soon have a new I.D. card. It will be of high durability and will facilitate full identification of individuals. It will come into effect starting from October 29, as informed in this capital.

Three people died and 64 were injured in a traffic accident near the western Cuban town of Los Palacios, between Havana and Pinar del Rio, as a truck transporting passengers went off of the speedway and overturned.

Army General Raul Castro, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party and President of the councils of State and Ministers, conferred on Thursday the Antonio Maceo Order on the Granma Naval Academy, on the occasion of its 55th anniversary.

A group of Cuban specialists will arrive in Nicaragua on Friday to advise local health workers in the fight against Ebola.

Heads of state and government and other representatives of the countries that make up the regional integration bloc Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our Americas-Treaty of Commerce for the Peoples (ALBA-TCP), will gather in Havana on October 20 to address a joint contribution to the prevention and fight against Ebola, an epidemic currently hitting Western and Central Africa.

Work accidents decreased in the first half of 2014 compared with the previous year, while the amount of working days lost due to the seriousness of those events increased, trade union sources said in this city.

The Swiss airlines Edelweiss will incorporate and additional direct flight between the city of Zurich and Havana, starting from April, 2015, announced Cuba’s Tourism Ministry (MINTUR) on Tuesday.