Tourism Ministry's Communication director Dalila Gonzalez announced in Havana a list of new air connections to Cuba during the winter or high-tourist season, which will favor an increase of trips to the island.

New air routes will be available starting from the high (winter season) of Cuban tourism (November-April), pointed out on Friday authorities of the island's tourist sector.

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) praised on Friday in this capital the Cuban Program "Educa a tu Hijo" (Educate your Child) for contributing to the comprehensive development of children and adolescents.

A declaration approved on Thursday by a Cuban Parliamentary Hearing against the US economic, commercial and financial blockade of the island stresses that the Cuban people will never surrender despite that economic war.

US directives with the Florida Aquarium paid a working visit this week to Cuba to consider joint efforts with the island´s National Aquarium in the research on coral reefs.

Spain´s Foreign minister Jose Garcia-Margallo announced that he is planning to visit Cuba before the end of this year.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said that he met with Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro for four hours in Havana, following the recent special summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America on the situation of the Ebola virus.

Experts and executives of the aquarium located in Florida, the United States, traveled to Cuba to explore a possible association with Havana's National Aquarium in research works to restore coral reefs.

Washington welcomes the possibility to jointly work with Cuba in the fight against Ebola, according to US media outlets citing a US State Department Source who asked to not be identified.

Despite a global alarm over the worst Ebola outbreak on record, Cuban doctors are eager to travel to West Africa and start healing the sick, Reuters news agency reported

An aircraft with 51 Cuban physicians and nurses on board landed in Liberia to help treating Ebola victims in that country of Western Africa, where a U.S. military mission is also deployed to fight the lethal virus, according to Reuters.

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.