The Foreign Ministry of the State of Palestine strongly condemns the murder of minister Ziad Abu Ein and considers it one more crime by the Israeli occupation against the Palestinian people and Tel Aviv´s disrespect for international law.

The new Cuban ambassador to the Dominican Republic, Carlos De la Nuez said that his agenda prioritizes the strengthening of bilateral relations with Santo Domingo.

The US Agency for International Development, USAID, tried to infiltrate the Cuban Hip-Hop movement as part of a covert project to destabilize the country, according to an investigation by the Associated Press.

The member states of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of our Americas and the People´s Trade Treaty regional integration organization, known by its acronyms ALBA-TCP will hold a summit in Havana on Sunday, December 14 to mark the 10th anniversary of the bloc and the 20th anniversary of the meeting of its founders Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro.

The Community of Caribbean States and Cuba reaffirmed on Monday in this capital the willingness to strengthen South-South cooperation as an expression of solidarity and cornerstone for the development of countries of the area.

The Cuba Interests Section in Washington still doesn't have a bank in the United States through which make the transaction related to its consular activities, as informed in a press release published by Granma newspaper today.

Colombia's FARC guerrillas and the government open a new round of talks in Havana on Wednesday to advance in the de-escalation of the armed conflict that has prevailed for 50 years in that South American nation.

The 6th Summit of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)-Cuba will take place on December 8, 2017, in Antigua y Barbuda, agreed on Monday the heads of state and government and other personalities attending the 5th edition of these meetings.

National coordinators of all 22 countries represented at the 24th Ibero-American Summit are preparing the final declaration of the forum, along with other documents, said Cuban national coordinator Pedro Nuñez.

The Panamanian government on Thursday officially invited Cuban President Raul Castro to the Summit of the Americas, which will be hosted by that central American nation April 10-11, 2005, the Panamanian Foreign Ministry announced.

Cuban charge d´ affairs in Russia, Natacha Diaz, presented the island´s child education program and its meeting of the Conventions of the Right of the Child during a forum at Moscow´s University of Arts.

The Cuban medical brigade offering services in Asunción, Paraguay, has administered over 2 thousand eye surgeries this year as its members ready to hold the first Cuba-Paraguay Joint Scientific Conference underway this week.

Colombia´s Revolutionary Armed Forces-People´s Army (FARC-EP) announced on their website www.pazfarc-ep.org the activation of a special humanitarian protocol to release on Sunday General Alzate Mora, chief of the Colombian Army´s Titan Task Force, corporal Rodriguez Contrera and lawyer Gloria Urrego, who were held captive by the guerrillas in a war zone on November 16.

The US Semester at Sea academic program is paying its second visit to Havana on Saturday since the trips resumed in December 2013 after nine years of absence from the Cuban capital as a result of travel restrictions imposed by the George W. Bush administration.