Army General Raul Castro, President of the councils of State and Ministers, received Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Vice-president of the European Commission, who is on an official visit to Cuba.

Havana City Historian Eusebio Leal received on Tuesday an acknowledgement given by the Senate of the Dominican Republic, for his willingness, sacrifice and commitment to the preservation of Cuba's historic heritage, the Prensa Latina news agency reported.

Cuba renewed on Tuesday in this capital its constructive commitment to the process of negotiation for an ongoing agreement of a political dialogue and bilateral cooperation with the European Union (EU).

Russia´s foreign minister Serguei Lavrov met in Havana with Cuban government vice-president Ricardo Cabrisas on details of the 8th Session of the Cuba-Russia Joint Intergovernmental Commission slated for April in Moscow.

The Cuban Center for Studies on the Youth announced a National Survey next year which will allow the youngsters to address the major problems that affect them in today´s Cuba.

Cuban software company DESOFT expects to expand its markets particularly in Latin America, though it does not discard the chance to do business with US companies, but no concrete proposals have yet been received.

The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini arrived on official visit to Cuba on Monday, March 23.

Russia´s foreign minister Serguei Lavrov is paying a working visit to Cuba on Tuesday as part of a tour that will also take him to Guatemala, Nicaragua and Colombia.

A total of 27 thousand 378 candidate councilors to local People´s Power bodies have thus far been nominated for upcoming partial elections on April 19.

Esteban Lazo, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party and President of the National Assembly of the People's Power (ANPP), ratified on Monday in this capital the strong bonds of friendship and solidarity existing between the Caribbean nation and Mali.

Following a successful mission against Ebola in Africa, 150 Cuban medical professionals returned home, 98 of them worked in Sierra Leone and 52 in Liberia.

In its annual International Narcotics Control Strategy Report the US State Department admitted that despite Cuba´s geographical position between main illegal drug producers in the hemisphere and the US market, the island is not significant consumer, producer or transit point for illicit narcotics.

Rumania´s Medical and Pharmacy University of Targu Mures city and the Havana-based University of Medical Sciences signed a cooperation frame accord on Friday.

The President of the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador, Sigfrido Reyes, highlighted on Friday in this capital that political relations between Cuba and his country are in an exceptional moment, thanks to a large extent to fraternal inter-parliamentary bonds.

The Group of Iberian-American Universities La Rabida gave Cuban architect Dayra Gelabert the prize to the most notable work in 2014 in the category of Science and Technology, for her research work Progressive Housing as Alternative Solution to the City of Havana.