Havana is among the 14 cities on the New Seven Wonder Cities contest, which will take the choice of millions of citizens of the world who will select the cities they consider as the new wonders on the planet.

The lifting of the US embargo would benefit Cuba and also American companies interested in doing business with the island, said US scholar Phil Peter during a videoconference between Havana and Washington on Wednesday.

The first group of Cuban health workers that will participate in the fight against the Ebola fever virus in Liberia has arrived in the country as part of the initial brigade sent by Havana to fight the virus in Western Africa, informed the Liberian government on Tuesday.

Cuba alerted at the United Nations about the permanent growing development gap between rich and poor countries despite the availability of resources and technologies to revert such unfavorable situation.

Benson Ngqentsu, Brian Bunting District Secretary of the South African Communist Party, made a call to the progressive forces in his country to support the international solidarity with Cuba campaign, reported Prensa latina news agency.

Flights to Cuba by Aerolineas Argentinas (Argentinean Airlines, AA) will begin on January, as well as to other destinations in the Caribbean as part of a plan to expand routes, confirmed on Monday the head of AA, Mariano Recalde.

A Cuban brigade of 165 health specialists arrived Thursday in Freetown, Sierra Leone, to join the fight on Ebola, according to the webpage of the Cuban embassy in Ghana.

Declassified documents by the Gerald Ford Presidential Library revealed that former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger drew up secret plans to launch air raids against Cuba back in 1976.

El Salvador, Namibia, Trinidad-Tobago, Dominica and Guyana joined their voices to the international claim demanding the lifting of the over-50-year US economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba, at the United Nations General Assembly.

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.