José Ramón Balaguer Cabrera, member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and head of its International Relations Department was received at the headquarters of the Grand People's Palace by You Quan, member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and head of the United Front Department.

Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, received on Wednesday in Havana, the Republican Senator from the State of Tennessee Robert Corker, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the U.S. Senate, who is visiting Cuba accompanied by two of his legislative assistants.

A plant run by the newly created Cuban-Italian joint venture Vidrios Mariel S.A, to be built in the Mariel Special Development Zone (ZEDM), will cover 70 percent of the country´s demand of glass containers for beverages, drugs and other uses.

Beatriz Johnson, vice president of Cuba´s State Council, arrived today in the Russian city of St. Petersburg to attend the 2nd Eurasian Women's Forum, sponsored by the Federation Council (Russian Senate), reported Prensa Latina (PL) news agency.

Authorities of the Institute of Civil Aeronautics of Cuba (IACC) reported on Wednesday that it has recovered almost all the information from the black boxes of the Boeing 737-200 that crashed in Havana last May 18.

Cuba's Vice President of the Council of States and Ministers Ines Maria Chapman met on Monday with the Minister of Foreign Relations and Regional Integration of the Republic of Ghana, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey who is on an official visit to the Caribbean island.

With the aim of signing a Sports Collaboration Agreement, Mario Augusto Perez, General Director of the Panamanian Institute of Sports (PANDEPORTES by its Spanish acronym), started today an official visit to Cuba.

Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, Ghana´s Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, will begin a visit to Cuba today, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Caribbean island.

The President of the Councils of State and Ministers, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, met this Tuesday evening with Dean Oliver Barrow, Prime Minister of Belize, who is visiting Cuba.

The first field tests of an application for mobile phones that would allow to follow in real time the movement of the passenger transport buses have already begun.

Cuban Arlenis Sierra finished fourth in the Giro della Toscana, Italy, after ranking ninth in the third stage of the contest.

Cuba´s First Vice-President of the Councils of State and Ministers, Salvador Valdes, attended the parade for the 70th anniversary of the foundation of the Democratic People´s Republic of Korea, held on Pyongyang this Sunday.