Havana is among the 20 finalist cities opting for being included as one of the Wonders Cities of the Modern World, competition organized by Swiss foundation New 7 Wonders Cities.

Leaders from Latin America, Africa and Asia expressed their strongest rejection of the US economic blockade of Cuba during high-level debates at the United Nations General Assembly.

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said that he hopes that the United States and Cuba may get to working relations that lead to the lifting of the US blockade of the island, which in his opinion has failed.

Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez demanded at the United Nations a political compromise by industrialized countries to give effective response to climate change and its threats on humanity.

Theodor Friedrich, representative of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to Cuba, informed on Monday in this capital that Latin America and the Caribbean is the region with the greatest advances in the reduction of hunger at a global level.

United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon met on Sunday with Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez, who is heading the island's delegation to the high-level segment of the 69 Session of the General Assembly, to open sessions on September 24.

The first secretary of the Cuban Communist Party in Havana and country's vice-president Mercedes Lopez Acea wound up a working visit to Vietnam, where she met with the general secretary of the Vietnamese Communist Party, Nguyen Phu Trong.

Cuba's contribution to the Slave Route Project was acknowledged in Paris by Ali Moussa, head of the UNESCO initiative, the purpose of which is to show the scourge of trade and the African influence in the world.

Uruguayan Senator Lucia Topolansky said on Sunday that while receiving six prisoners of the Guantanamo Naval Base her country contributes to "take a horrible action to pieces."

The death of popular Colombian fighter and revolutionary singer-songwriter Alejandro Gomez Roa, creator of the legendary song Cuba si, yanquis no, leaves an unforgettable mark of profound links with the Caribbean island, a vital cycle that will last forever.

Un Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has telephoned several world leaders over the last few hours to request help for African nations hit by the Ebola fever virus, informed his spokesman on Tuesday.

Thousands of messages are at the doors of the White House on Friday demanding the release of the three anti-terrorist Cubans held in US prisons since 1998.

Colombia's Revolutionary Armed Forces-People's Army (FARC-EP) announced new proposals on the issue related to the victims of the armed conflict in an effort to advance the peace process agenda underway in Havana.

The leader of The Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan said in Barbados that Fidel Castro made solidarity among the peoples the reason of his existence.