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Cuban Gross Domestic Product (GDP) will grow slightly higher to 4 percent in 2015, as it was predicted in the last meeting of the Council of Ministers, Granma daily reported.»

The US Semester at Sea academic program is paying its second visit to Havana on Saturday since the trips resumed on December 2013 after nine years of absence as a result of travel restrictions imposed by the George W. Bush administration.»

Cuban athletics conquered five titles, thus maintaining its good performance in the 22nd Central American and Caribbean Games, based in Veracruz , Mexico, where the rowers won’t heir first title.»

Cuban wrestler Mijail Lopez would have liked to win his title on the mattress, but what matters is that he won the only title missing from his medals collection.»

A harvest of four titles in athletics and a gold medal in Greco Roman wrestling stood out in the performance of Cubans November 25th in the 22nd Central American and Caribbean Games Veracruz 2014.»

Physician Félix Báez Sarría, the first and only Cuban co-operator so far stricken by Ebola virus in Western Africa, is satisfactorily progressing with the treatment being received at the University Hospital of Geneva (HUG), according to a statement from this Swiss health institution. The medical report, which was made public this Tuesday in a press conference, explains that the presence »

Cuba develops a comprehensive plan of prevention and facing an Ebola epidemic, trying to minimize risks of introduction and transmission of the infection, assured Jose Angel Portal, first deputy minister of Public Health.»

Cuban President Raul Castro received the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Barcenas, who is on a working visit to Cuba.»

Cuban President Raul Castro bid farewell to a medical brigade that will fight the Ebola epidemic in Africa, mainly in western countries of that continent.»

The countries of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) regional bloc put together an action plan for a joint response to the Ebola pandemic in Africa. The Final Declaration of the ALBA Extraordinary Summit on Ebola lists as one of its main objectives the strengthening of “professional development for experts in the treatment of Ebola patients” »