Ramon Castro Ruz died in this capital on Tuesday morning, at age 91.

Cuban president Raul Castro called on the people to implement a program aimed at preventing the entrance and spread of Zika in Cuba.

Cuba's Telecommunications Company, ETECSA, in the province of Camaguey has an investment program this year in the area to improve the quality of its cell and internet service aimed at benefiting its clients and society in general.

The general secretary of the Organization of Ibero American States for Education, Science and Culture, Paulo Speller said that the first 500 Paulo Freire Scholarships are opened for those interested in obtaining this Project.

The President of the councils of State and Ministers, Army General Raul Castro, visited on Friday the National Seismological Research Center in Santiago de Cuba, the Granma newspaper reported.

on The Network Stations of the Cuban National Seismological Service recorded at 5:19 pm yesterday a perceptible earthquake, at coordinates 19.89 north latitude and 76.02 west longitude, southwest of the city of Santiago de Cuba, with a depth of 11 km and a magnitude of 2.6 on the Richter scale.

Army General Raul Castro, President of the Councils of State and Ministers, presided over today in Santiago de Cuba, at the Santa Ifigenia Cemetery, the ceremony of military honors at the funeral of the Commander of the Rebel Army Pedro Miret, who died on January 15, at 88 years of age.

Diplomats from Lebanon and Cuba highlighted today in Beirut the good state of bilateral relations, during a meeting in which the local Foreign Ministry promoted the Third World Congress of Lebanese Émigrés scheduled for May, Prensa Latina reports.

Army General Raul Castro, President of the councils of State and Ministers, received Ollanta Humala Tasso, President of the Republic of Peru, who is on an official visit to Cuba.

HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 18 (acn) The Director General of the United States Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Josefina Vidal, made statements in Havana to the press on the visit to Cuba of U.S. President Barak Obama on March 21 and 22.

Cuba's Foreign Trade and Investment Minister Rodrigo Malmierca said on Tuesday in Washington DC that US companies will not be discriminated in Cuba once the US restrictions imposed on their firms are lifted.

The Electric Company from the city of Havana and Geomineria from the province of Pinar del Rio are currently modernizing the underground electricity network with some 20 working brigades in the streets of Prado and Neptuno in the Cuban capital.

Ollanta Moises Humala Tasso, President of the Republic of Peru, will arrive in Cuba on Thursday on an official visit, the Granma newspaper reports.

A colloquium dedicated to the 90th birthday of the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, captures today the attention of the program of the 25th International Book Fair, Cuba 2016.

Bruno Rodriguez, Minister of Foreign Affairs, met on Tuesday at the headquarters of the Foreign Ministry with the U.S. Secretary of Transport, Anthony Foxx, who traveled to Cuba to participate in the signing ceremony of the Memorandum of Understanding for the establishment of regular flights between Cuba and the US The digital Web site www.cubaminrex.cu reported that the Secretary was accompanied by the Assistant Secretary for Economic and Business Affairs of the State Department, Charles Rivkin, the Deputy Chief of the U.S. Embassy to Cuba, Scott Hamilton, and other officials from the Departments of Transport and State.