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The International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban 5 invites all who have been part of the struggle to free the Five to join this celebration.»

About a thousand members of solidarity-with-Cuba groups came to Sancti Spiritus during 2014, which exceeded the number of foreign visitors received in the previous year, said sources of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP).»

Cuban doctor Felix Baez, who overcame the Ebola virus he got in Sierra Leone, returned to that Western African nation to continue fighting the disease along his comrades of the Henry Reeve international medical brigade.»

The Central Bank of Cuba (CBC) will put into circulation high-denomination banknotes from next February 1st with  valueS of 200, 500 and 1000 Cuban pesos (CUP), as reported by Granma newspaper.»

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro described relations between his country and Algeria as privileged and characterized by mutual trust.»

Over 7 million pesos have been earmarked in Sancti Spiritus, central Cuba, for investments in the health field, said authorities from that sector in the territory.»

Casa de las Americas Literary Prize -created in 1960- chose the city of Cienfuegos as its host for the 14th consecutive ocassion, for the works of its jury, said expert Juan Mesa to Prensa Latina.»

Authorities and personalities signed a book of condolences opened at the Embassy of France in Cuba for the terrorist attack on the headquarters of weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris.»

Of the 1 150 babies admitted in the neonatology ward of Sancti Spiritus maternity hospital last year, only eight couldn’t make it.»

The Provincial Electoral Commission (CEP, in Spanish), was constituted this Thursday in the central province of Sancti Spiritus, prior to the upcoming partial election process to be carried out next April 19th.»