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Cuban President Raul Castro visited the National Seismological Research Center, where he learned firsthand about the anomalous situation in the eastern territory since early January, when about 1,463 seismic events have been reported.
Of that total, nearly 42 earth tremors were perceptible by people, Granma newspaper reported.
Sadly almost all religions have had to lament the destructive occurrence of wars and their terrible consequences. They have had to devote their greatest energies to those tasks. The singular importance of the meeting between Pope Francis and His Holiness Cyril in Havana is that it has aroused the hope of the peoples of the world.
The Director General for the U.S. at the Cuban Foreign Ministry, Josefina Vidal, says that U.S. President Barack Obama will be welcomed to Cuba with the island's traditional hospitality.
The upcoming official visit of the U.S. president to Havana -- slated for March 21st and 22nd -- was announced Thursday morning in both Cuba and the United States.
On the afternoon of February 16, Cuban Minister of Foreign Relations, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, received U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Anthony Foxx, at the ministry headquarters, who was visiting Cuba to participate in the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding on the establishment of regular direct flights between Cuba and the U.S.
The challenges of inclusive economic and social development in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as the innovative role higher education should play on it, are on the table today at the 10th International Congress, Universidad 2016.
Todayâ�Ös activities of the event will include a keynote speech on that issue, by Argentine political scientist and sociologist, Atilio Boron, and the beginning of a Forum of Rectors from higher education institutions.
Cuban Minister for Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment, Rodrigo Malmierca, visits today the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, where he will hold talks with managers and entrepreneurs from several sectors.
At the headquarters of the organization, representing the interests of more than three million businesses in the northern country, the minister will be received by the president of the Chamber, Thomas Donahue, and Executive Vice President and Head of International Affairs, Myron Brilliant.
New bridges on the Cuban and U.S. cultural life are erected today at the main headquarters of the International Book Fair, Cuba 2016, resulting from the meeting of publishers from both sides.
For two days, about 40 Cuban and American publishers, as well as specialists, business men and women will be interested for the peculiarities of the book market in these two nations that allow to plan several exchange actions.
Bolivian journalist Carlos Soria announced here today the new publishing projects his country is preparing on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the arrival of Ernesto ''Che'' Guevara to that South American nation.
Speaking at the International Book Fair in Cuba, he announced activities to mark the day this year and one of them is the new edition of The Diary of Che in Bolivia.
Cuban president Raul Castro decorated his Holiness Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia with the Order Jose Marti, the highest award given by the Cuban Council of State.
Created in 1972, the Order Jose Marti is awarded to Cuban and foreign citizens, as well as to heads of State or Government for their work in favor of peace and humanity, for their extraordinary contribution to education, cultura, sciences and sports, asfor relevant merits in creation.
Qiang Tang, UNESCO''s Assistant Director-General for Education, will pay an official visit to Cuba from February 14 to 16, was reported in Paris today.
The official will be accompanied by David Atchoarena, Director of the Division for Policies and Lifelong Learning Systems.
Both confirmed their presence at the 10th International Congress on Higher Education University 2016, an important forum for exchange of ideas and discussion, which will be held at the Conference Center in Havana.
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