Cuba and the United States signed on Thursday a historic memo of understanding to cooperate in Cancer control.

Cuban First Vice-President Miguel Diaz-Canel assessed the strategies designed to make up for the lack of teachers in the western province of Matanzas, where the school year started with some 1300 education professionals less than needed.

Mr. Stanley Mutumba Simataa, President of the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), arrived in Cuba yesterday on an official visit, CubaMinrex digital site reported.

Cuba's elderly population has increased to two million since 1992, some 19.2 percent up from 12.4 percent when the First Cuban Gerontology and Geriatrics Congress was held.

Cuban and Belgian parliamentary leaders considered bilateral relations between their legislative bodies as favorable and committed themselves to reactivate historic bonds, during talks in Paris, France.

Luis Guillermo Solís, president of Costa Rica, announced his country will vote again at the United Nations in favor of the Cuban resolution against the over 50 years long US blockade on Cuba.

The director general of the United States Department of the Cuban Foreign Ministry, Josefina Vidal, added on Monday her vote to those of millions of Cubans and said she's confident that in nine days the community of nations will do the same and will support again the fair demand of putting and end to the economic, commercial and financial blockade of that northern nation against the island.

The Federation of University Students (FEU by its Spanish acronym) and the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (INDER by its Spanish acronym) spoke at the stadium of the University of Havana against the US economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba, imposed more than 50 years ago.

Commander of the Revolution Ramiro Valdes, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party and Vice-president of the councils of State and Ministers, presented at Havana's Jose Marti National Library the book La Minería en Cuba. Una aproximación (Mining in Cuba: an Approach).

The Vice-president of the Council of State of the Republic of Cuba, Salvador Valdes, arrived in Ecuador on Monday to take part in the Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, Habitat III, scheduled for October 18-20 in that South American country, announced the Cubaminrex Web site.

The new presidential directive towards Cuba announced Friday by the White House includes steps by the departments of Trade and the Treasury to favor bilateral scientific collaboration, the import of Cuban products by US citizens allowed visiting the island and scholarships.

A massive denunciation of the US economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba is being staged by youngsters in all local universities as a new vote approaches at the UN on the Cuban resolution demanding the lifting of the unilateral and extraterritorial US measure.

Water use and the call to save it is the central theme of video games developed by participants in the third edition of the Pachamama Game Jam, competition opened last Friday at the University of Computing Sciences (UCI by its Spanish acronym).

A second ship of the Venezuelan Navy was received in the port of this city by General Ramón Espinosa Martín, deputy minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR by its Spanish acronym) and member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC).

The Islamic Republic of Pakistan gave Cuba on Friday a donation of 15,000 tons of rice, a gesture that reflects solidarity with the Cuban nation, the easternmost area of which is recovering after the passage of Hurricane Matthew.