A six-ton humanitarian cargo sent by Cuba to the people of Gaza will be distributed over the weekend in the region, said Cuban diplomat in Egypt Alexander Pellicer who also announced that the island is willing to give treatment to the victims of the Israeli bombings and offer new medical scholarships to Palestinian youths.

Pamanian Vice President and Foreign Minister Isabel Saint Malo de Alvarado confirmed Sunday, September 7, that Panama invited the presidents of the United States and Cuba, Barack Obama and Raúl Castro, to the Ibero-American Summit scheduled for April 2015 in Panama.

Cuba's Oil Company CUPET is currently advancing horizontal oil drilling in an effort to exploit new reserves and contribute to the country's economic development. The oil sector has thus far advanced the initiative with prospects to drill the first multilateral well soon.

Cayo Santamaria Key, a growing tourist resort off the northern coast of Central Cuba, will be the meeting point of nearly 240 tour operators from The Americas, who will attend the 6th Convention of Copa Vacations Argentina Group, September 16 to 24.

Some 300 delegates from 50 nations are attending the 10th International Colloquium with the Cuban Five and against Terrorism, which runs Thursday and Friday at Havana's Conventions Center.

Given the history of Cuban international collaboration, particularly in the health field, we have been asked to join the group of countries that will give initial response to an urgent call against Ebola in Africa, said Cuban Health Minister Roberto Morales after a meeting in Geneva with World Health Organization director general Margaret Chan.

Although the United Nations has adopted, for 22 years in a row, the Cuban resolution against the US blockade of Cuba, the US´s measure has been kept intact and even stiffened, with no changes, said Cuban deputy foreign minister Abelardo Moreno.

Keith Ellis, Professor Emeritus of the University of Toronto, Canada, and a defender of the Cuban Revolution, received on Tuesday in this capital the Friendship Medal given by the Council of State of the Republic of Cuba.

Jose Antonio Meade, Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, expressed on Monday in this city his country's interest in strengthening and expanding bonds with Cuba, as part of Mexico's priorities in its relations with Latin America and the Caribbean.

Cuban President Raul Castro met on Monday with Mexican Foreign Minister Jose Antonio Meade, who is on a working visit to the island.

Activists with the Solidarity-with-Cuba campaign in the U.K. called emergency meetings to protest the denial once again by British authorities of an entry visa in that country against Cuban anti-terrorist Rene Gonzalez.

Brazilian Liberation theologian Frei Betto was bestowed on Monday with Cuba's Solidarity Order in acknowledgement of his defense of the fair causes of the peoples.

Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapksa reiterated his willingness to further strengthen friendly and cooperation relations with Cuba as he met in the capital Colombo with visiting Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez, who is on an Asia tour that includes Vietnam, Laos and New Zealand.

A total of 6 thousand 195 patients were treated in Cuba with stem cells in the first half of 2014, while the medical procedure has been expanded to 14 provinces since it was first administered here in 2004.