Cuban Yipsi Moreno won the hammer throw title setting a new record, 71.35 meters, for the Central American and Caribbean Sports Games Veracruz-2014.»

Cuban First Vice-President Miguel Díaz-Canel, held talks with Prime Minister of Guinea Bissau, Domingos Simoes, who currently visits the island.»

Cuban anti-terrorist fighter Fernando Gonzalez met in Managua with members of the Cuban brigades of doctors and teachers and representatives of the diplomatic mission of his country in Nicaragua.»

Cuba and Ecuador advocated for strengthening bilateral relations and pointed their areas of coincidence in the context of the official visit here of the Ecuadorian Foreign Minister, Ricardo Patiño.»

Cuban health collaborator, Felix Baez, infected with Ebola virus in Sierra Leone, is receiving first-level assistance at the University Hospital of Geneva (HUG), in Switzerland, Granma newspaper reported. In a brief phone contact with the daily, the director of the “Pedro Kouri” Tropical Medicine Institute, Doctor Jorge Perez, stated from Geneva that the Cuban physician “is being well assisted.” Ebola »

Messages of hope, encouragement, love and solidarity fill different social networking platforms to support Doctor Felix Baez, infected with Ebola in Sierra Leone. After the news of his transfer to the University Hospital of Geneva in Switzerland and the stability of his condition was made public, comments through multiple websites of the Caribbean nation and the most popular social networks »

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (FARC-EP) urged the government to agree on a ceasefire and demanded a more active participation of the citizens to put an end to the conflict.»

An editorial released by The New York Times condemned brain drain from Cuba encouraged by the United States, and particularly the program that encourages the immigration of doctors during official mission abroad.»

José R. Machado Ventura, second secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, received Tran Quoc Vuong, from the Secretariat of the Communist Party of Viet Nam, Tran Quoc Vuong.»

With the presence of a hundred participants from 19 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, the first International Course for preventing and fighting the Ebola virus started in Havana.»