Haiti´s Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe stressed the need for regional countries to keep struggling shoulder to shoulder for the wellbeing of their peoples as Havana readies to host the 5th Summit of Cuba and the Caribbean Community (Caricom) on December 8.

Officials with the US Defense Department said that all has been set to transfer more detainees over the next few weeks from the prison camp located at the US naval base in the occupied Cuban territory of Guantanamo, despite opposition by Republicans.

Colombia´s Revolutionary Armed Forces-Peoples´ Army (FARC-EP) said in Havana that after the release of General Ruben Dario Alzate trust must prevail between the parties in the framework of the peace dialog underway in the Cuban capital.

Cubans residents in The Netherlands held their 3rd National Forum this month in The Hague, and issued a declaration demanding the end of the over-50-year US blockade against their homeland and the release of three Cuban anti-terrorist fighters held in US prisons since 1998.

Havana has great possibilities to be one of the seven wonder cities of modern world, asserted on Tuesday Jean Paul de la Fuente, head of Value Development of the New 7 Wonder Foundation of Switzerland, who is on a visit to Cuba until Thursday.

Cuban doctor Felix Baez, who got the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone, is making progress as the presence of the virus in his blood has significantly reduced, according to the medical team assisting him at Geneva´s Cantonal Hospital.

Cuban doctor Ronald Hernandez, a member of the medical brigade fighting Ebola in Liberia, expressed his optimism about the success of their mission in that western African nation.

Sports exchanges, the setting up of training bases fpr athletes and extending cooperation in the sector, were among the topics discussed by the Russian Sports Minister Vitali Mutkó and Cuban Ambassador Emilio Lozada.

As part of Cuban cooperation relations with Equatorial Guinea in the field of education, a new brigade of teachers from the island arrived in the capital Malabo to work in local senior and junior high schools.

The Argentinean Friendship Movement MASCUBA announced that the 15th Solidarity-with-Cuba Forum will be held in Buenos Aires in 2016.

Cuba reiterated at the UN General Assembly on Friday the urgent need to reform the Security Council to turn it into a transparent, representative and democratic body.

The Cuban Association of Professors expressed its solidarity with the relatives of the 43 students disappeared in September, in Mexico.

Two Cuban University professors and a student are traveling to Bridgetown, Barbados, to meet with the over 650 participants at the Semester at Sea Academic Program, which will arrive in Havana onboard the MV Explorer Cruise Ship on November 29.

A group of 35 medical students from Equatorial Guinea departed for Cuba where they will concluded their sixth academic year and graduate, according to diplomatic sources in Malabo.