Pope Francis regretted on Monday the lack of interest for bringing peace to the Middle East, one year after the outbreak of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict which has claimed more than 40 thousand lives in Gaza.

The Italy-Cuba National Friendship Association paid tribute to Comandante Ernesto Che Guevara on the 57th anniversary of his murder in Bolivia, with a ceremony in the northern Italian city of Collegno.

The Council of the International Association of Academies of Sciences (IAAS) and its associates welcomed the proposal of their Cuban colleagues to create a new scientific board on Neurosciences and Neurotechnologies.

For the second time, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Cuba commemorated a day against terrorism to denounce the hypocrisy of keeping the country most attacked by violent actions concocted in the U.S. on the list of alleged state sponsors of such scourge.

The member states of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our Americas—People’s Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) alerted on Thursday about the escalation of violence and the expansion of war in the Middle East.

 The Patrice Lumumba Association for International Solidarity (PLAIS) urged to defend peace on Earth given the growing spiral of warmongering attitudes evidenced by the war in Ukraine, Israel's genocidal attack, and the aggressiveness of the United States toward in Latin America and the Caribbean to the detriment of the future of humankind.

In a post on X, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez denounced the extension of Israel's genocidal attacks to Lebanon and demanded the involvement of the United Nations.

The alarming levels of violence over the past year in the West Bank worsen the violation of the Palestinian people’s human rights and affect their security and freedom of movement, according to a report released by the United Nations on Thursday.

The Cuban Foreign Ministry posted a statement on its website https://t.ly/i9gNI on Thursday expressing concern about the escalation of the Middle East conflict, which has been elicited by the aggressive policy of the State of Israel, militarily, logistically and politically backed by the US administration.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel conveyed Mexico’s new President Claudia Sheinbaum congratulations from the Cuban people and government.

Claudia Sheinbaum was inaugurated on Tuesday as the first female president in the history of Mexico.

Iran launched over 100 ballistic missiles against Israel in retaliation for the murder of Hezbollah and Hamas leaders, amidst growing tension in the Middle East.

Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban foreign minister, denounced today Israel's ground invasion against Lebanon and assessed that it is a very dangerous escalation of the conflict in the Middle East.

Miguel Diaz-Canel, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the country, held talks with Carolina Rangel Gracida, secretary general of the National Regeneration Movement Party (MORENA).