The German Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Chilean Neven Ilic, President of Panam Sports, along with other top sports executives, will arrive in Cuba today to begin a two-day visit.

At a meeting with directors, professors and students of the Technological University of Havana "José Antonio Echeverría" (CUJAE), Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez urged Cuban universities to keep up with the world’s state of the art in technical sciences.

The University of Havana (UH) is hosting the 1st International Congress "Persons with Disabilities as Subjects of Civil and Family Law", intended to provide a legal approach to a greater inclusion of this population group.

The US Coast Guard Service returned 41 irregular Cuban migrants to the island on February 28, the Cuban Interior Ministry announced on its website.

Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, First Secretary of Cuba’s Communist Party and Cuban President visited the Jose Antonio Echeverria Technology University in Havana on Wednesday.

Local authorities are investigating an explosion this morning in Old Havana in which, according to neighbors, one person was killed and another was injured.

Unit one of the Lidio Ramón Pérez Power Plant in Felton, in the province of Holguín, joined the national grid today after a scheduled 25-day-long maintenance program.

An accident apparently caused by a gas explosion occurred at midnight in the municipality of Old Havana, in this city.

Cuba’s first deputy foreign minister Gerardo Penalver and Canada’s first deputy minister for Global Affairs, David Morrison presided over in Havana the 5th Session of Political Consultations between their countries’ foreign ministries and stressed the good state of bilateral relations.

On February 27th, Cuban deputy foreign minister Carlos Fernandez de Cossio, summoned Benjamin Ziff, Charge d’ Affairs at the US Embassy in Havana to formally convey his country’s energetic protest for the granting of political asylum to Cuban citizen Ruben Martinez Machado, who hijacked a Cuban civilian airplane on October 21st, 2022.

Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban foreign minister, denounced today the imperialist attempts to turn the Human Rights Council into a tribunal against countries that do not obey the geopolitical interests of powerful governments.

Law 158/2022 on the Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic of Cuba and the System of Superior Control of Public Funds and Administrative Management was published today in the Official Gazette of the Republic number 21 Ordinary.

Miguel Diaz-Canel, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the country, today expressed his condolences on the death of prominent journalist Francisca (Paquita) Armas Fonseca.

 Ricardo Cabrisas, Cuban deputy prime minister, and David Morrison, Canada's first deputy foreign minister, stressed in Havana the importance of continuing to develop trade and cooperation ties between the two countries.

With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the socialist camp, Cuba lost more than 70 % of its foreign trade, a fact taken advantage of by Washington and the Cuban-American mafia to increase the economic, commercial and financial blockade, and to step up political and media actions of all kinds with the aim of ensuring the imperialist restoration of the island in a short period of time.