Over 40 countries and some 120 exhibitors will attend the 31st Havana International Book Fair to run February 9-19 and having Colombia as guest of honor.

The Cuban aid worker Alejandro Aguilera Milanés, an employee with the Health Division of the Province of Las Tunas in Cuba and is a member of the Medical Brigade deployed in Haiti, was released on Wednesday afternoon, a few days after he was kidnapped in Port-au-Prince.

The penultimate day of the International Congress PEDAGODY 2023 will host the meeting of Ministers of Education of the Group of 77 plus China to discuss the current challenges facing the sector in the member countries.

The Government of the province of Santiago de Cuba awarded the Merit for Life distinction to Emilio Lambiase, president of the Armando Hart Dávalos Circle of the Italian section of the José Martí Cultural Society and the Cuba-Salermo Friendship Association for his contribution to the fight against COVID-19.

Ever since Hurricane Ian hit Cuba, more than 500,000 people in the province of Pinar del Río have benefited from the rapid response plan of the United Nations System (UNS) in Cuba, based on the delivery of free food supplies, one of the benefits expected to boost the recovery efforts in the region.

Some 108 irregular Cuban migrants who staged illegal departures by sea were returned to the island on Tuesday in tune with current migration accords with other nations.

 A new Turkish floating power plant arrived in Havana to join others currently supporting the Cuban power generation system.

Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali said that his country and Cuba share special relations beyond the political arena.

 Cultural colonization and its impact on the Cuban context was on the table of the International Congress Pedagogy 2023, held in this city until February 3, as part of a program that featured a related lecture by Abel Prieto Jimenez, president of Casa de las Américas and discussions on the role of science, innovation and the environment as the bases of national development centered on schools as the epicenter of action at regional level.

 Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez thanked Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune and his people and government for the generous aid sent to Cuba, a gesture he described as evidence of his country’s historic and unbreakable ties of fraternity and solidarity with Algeria, which the Cuban leader visited last November in commemoration of 60 years of diplomatic relations between the two nations.

The Cuban Ministry of Higher Education (MES) met with a delegation from the Ministry of Education and Science of Mongolia to talk about future academic cooperation and promote the internationalization process through teacher and student mobility.

The 1st International Meeting of Theoretical Publications of Leftist Parties and Movements will be held in Havana February 10-12, the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) announced today on Twitter.

China supports developing countries to strengthen South-South cooperation in education, said today Huai Jinpeng, Chinese minister of education, speaking virtually at the International Congress Pedagogy 2023.

The Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment in the province of Holguin promotes the planting of crops resistant to climate change, as part of the Tarea Vida(Life Task), a state plan to confront this phenomenon in Cuba.

Janaina Tewaney Mencomo, Panamanian foreign minister, paid tribute today to Jose Marti, Cuba's National Hero, in the Cuban park , 13 de Marzo in Havana.