If the local team beats today Curaçao it will result in a triple tie at the top of Rotterdam’s 14th World Port Tournament.»

The 10 standing committees of the Cuban Parliament continue their work Friday, as part of the activities prior to the first period of session of the 8th Legislature, scheduled for tomorrow at the Conference Center in Havana.»

More than 40 clinical trials implemented in the Cuban central province of Sancti Spiritus have benefited the vast majority of patients, ensured specialists involved in the task. In the first provincial workshop on the topic it was announced that all studies (over 40 since 1992) had encouraging results and allowed assessing, experimentally, various drugs, finally valued as effective and safe.»

The restoration of Trinidas’s Limones Cantero-Seibabo mountainous road was concluded, as part of the rehabilitation actions undertaken on the route linking Villa Clara and Sancti Spiritus provinces.»

The leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro today received here the Honoris Causas degree in Military Sciences awarded by the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) Academy.»

The ten standing commssions of the Cuban National Assembly of People’s Power meet in this capital today and tomorrow, prior to the First Ordinary Session of the 8th Legislature.»

UNASUR members will analyze the refusal of some European countries to allow Bolivian presidential aircraft to land or fly over their territories.»

Santiago Luengo, delegate of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Federation for the operation to help on the effects of Hurricane Sandy in Cuba, extolled the social response of Cuba before these events.»

With a gala at the Heredia Theater, the 33rd International Caribbean Festival begins in Santiago de Cuba, an event uninterruptedly held for nearly 35 years as a meeting point among the cultures of the peoples of the region.»

A crowd accompanied the funeral cortege of Jesus Cejas, a member of the Cuban diplomatic corps killed in Argentina in 1976, whose remains were buried at the martyrs’ pantheon in Pinar del Rio.»