The State Quality Control Center of Medicine (CECMED) in Cuba was recognized as reference authority for Las Americas after strict evaluation.
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The director of the Office of the Program on Jose Marti’s Life and Work, Armando Hart Davalos, received on Thursday the Dignity Award from the hands of the president of the Association of Cuban Journalists (UPEC), Tubal Paez.
The medal of Founder of the Institute of Materials and Reagents for Electronics was conferred on Thursday upon Commander in Chief Fidel Castro, at the Main Lecture Hall of the University of Havana.
UNESCO warned of a deficit in aid to Africa leading up to a UN education summit set for Sunday in Pretoria.
Cuba's President Raul Castro met with Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Miguel Angel Moratinos and Havana Archbishop Cardinal Jaime Ortega.
Iran announced on Wednesday the opening of its first nuclear electricity generating plant in the southern locality of Bushehr and expressed its confidence that the European Union (EU) will correct its stance regarding the national atomic program.
New equipment installed in the Network of Seismic Stations will allow specialists of the geodynamic Observatory in Santiago de Cuba to respond to the occurrence of eartkquakes worldwide.
Salvadoran Francisco Chavez Abarca, the well known terrorist, was captured in Venezuela. He entered Guatemala in 2004 but there is no registration of his departure, reported the daily Prensa Libre.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa on Tuesday are reviewing the progress on agreements signed during the 8th Caracas-Quito Presidential Meeting, to strengthen bilateral relations.
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez begins official talks on Tuesday with Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos, who is on a working visit to Cuba.
The president of the International Chess Federation (FIDE), Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, described former Cuban world champion Jose Raul Capablanca as an exceptional man of Cuba and the world.
Finnish Friends of Cuba expressed satisfaction for the development of several exchanges with people in the eastern province of Las Tunas.