Cuba finished with four gold medals at the closing of the Doha 2015 World Boxing Championships, after Lazaro Alvarez (60 kg) and Julio Cesar La Cruz (81) won their respective fights this Thursday.»

The book “Fidel Castro: Guerrillero del Tiempo” (Fidel Castro: Timeless Guerrilla Fighter) was launched this Thursday in the Chinese city of Shanghai by its author, Cuban journalist and writer, Katiuska Blanco.»

The Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology of Cuba (CIGB) in Havana presented Thursday the results of the new Cuban medicine PEG-Heberon to treat chronic hepatitis C.»

US pop singer Katy Perry visited the headquarters of the Cuban children’s theater company La Colmenita, where she met the children and their director Carlos Alberto “Tin” Cremata.»

Nine U.S. governors sent a letter to Congress asking for the lifting of travel, financial transactions, and trade restrictions codified in the over 50-year blockade against Cuba.»

Cuba’s Deputy Foreign Minister Ana Teresita González met in Havana with his visiting counterpart from the Czech Republic, Martin Tlapa.»

If renowned Bishop Juan José Díaz de Espada y Fernánez de Landa —who centuries ago enjoyed the thermal waters of Villa San José del Lago— were still alive, he would have for sure welcomed the over a million budget earmarked for the refurbishment of the touristic village located in the Cuban north-central region of Majajigua, about 120 km from Sancti »

Prime Minister of Slovakia, Robert Fico, concludes today his official visit to Cuba, which he considered a very important step to strengthen relations between the two countries.»

Cuba has reached a survival rate in heart surgeries higher to 95 percent, ranking among the most advanced countries in this matter.»

Experts from various areas discuss at the headquarters of the Permanent Secretariat of the Latin American Economic System (SELA, in Spanish) on the relations of the region with the Brics group.»