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The 30th International Festival of New Latin American Cinema begins on Tuesday in Havana with a gala at the Karl Marx Theater in the Cuban capital.

Bolivian President Evo Morales met on Monday with visiting Cuban Culture Minister Abel Prieto at the Quemado Palace in La Paz.

The book Project Censored 2009 is a powerful denunciation against the US mainstream media, which purposely silences certain news stories of public interest, said Chilean journalist Ernesto Carmona as he presented the book today in Havana.

There are 1,488 people living in Cuba who are 100 years and older, mostly Cuban born, according to the results of
a recent study done on the subject.

Cuba says that the United Nation must urgently lead negotiations to set up a new world financial structure that represents all UN member nations on equal grounds.

Cuban Vice President Esteban Lazo visited this Sunday central Ciego de Avila province to assess the recovery process from the wake of Hurricane Ike that battered this region last September.

In the United States there are a growing number of people that go hungry.

Cuban President Raul Castro Ruz today attended the beatification here of Friar Juanino Jose Olallo, the first ceremony of its kind that takes place in Cuba.

The President of the Russian Federation Dimitri Anatolievich Medvedev met with Fidel Castro before concluding his working visit to Cuba on Friday. He described as very interesting his meeting with the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution.

The President of the Russian Federation, Dimitri Anatolievich Medvedev, arrives on Thursday in Havana for a working visit at the invitation of his Cuban counterpart, Raul Castro.

Cuba will honor late Ecuadorian painter Oswaldo Guayasamin (1919-1999) on the occasion of his 90th birthday on July 19th, 2009.

Cuban President Raul Castro greeted on Wednesday the Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Francophony of Equatorial Guinea, Pastor Micha Ondo Bile, who is on an official visit to the Caribbean nation.