The Constitutive Session of the National Assembly of People's Power (Cuban Parliament), in its 10th Legislature, will be held today in Havana, in the aftermath of the national election of March 26.

On the occasion of the 31st anniversary of diplomatic relations between Cuba and Georgia, the Island ratified its willingness to develop relations between the two nations.

Sancti Spiritus, April 18 (ACN) Carlos Muro Guevara, and 80-year-old war vet who fought the US-led mercenary invasion on the south-western Bay of Pigs back in 1961 cannot forget the days of that battle which ended with the first military defeat of the United States in Latin America.

 Matanzas, April 18 (ACN) “Gray days which you wouldn’t like to live, war has an ugly face which you only notice once it hits near you,” this is the way Cuban woman Cira Rivero describes the battle waged by the Cuban people against the April 1961 US-led Bay of Pigs mercenary invasion, in which she served as a nurse.

Cuba’s Foreign Trade and Investment Minister Rodrigo Malmierca said Tuesday in Havana that the upcoming 18th Expocaribe Trade Fair is the right scenario to strengthen economic and commercial links with the Caribbean Community, the Greater Caribbean and other regions of the world.

 Vuong Dinh Hue, member of the Politburo of Vietnam’s Communist Party Central Committee and president of that country’s National Assembly arrived on an official visit to Cuba on Tuesday.

 HOLGUIN, Cuba, Apr 18 (ACN) The linkage between the Pedro Soto Alba Company and the XL Anniversary of the October Revolution (KTP) in Holguin province, makes it possible to improve the production of nickel, one of the main exportable items in Cuba.

Cuba is getting ready to receive the president of the National Assembly of Vietnam, Vuong Dinh Hue, who begins tomorrow an official visit to the island, at the head of a delegation from his country that will be the first foreign delegation in Havana after the constitution of the 10th Legislature of the Cuban Parliament.

Cuba evokes today the Father of the Homeland, Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, and Raul Roa, known as the foreign minister of dignity, on the 204th and 116th anniversary of their respective birthdays.

The Government of Havana announces today that as an organizational measure for the fuel sale, in view of the lack of fuel in the country, its sale will be limited in those service centers intended for all consumers.

A new modality in the commercialization of agricultural inputs is being developed by the Logistics Business Group of the Ministry of Agriculture (GELMA), by incorporating the sale in freely convertible currency in twenty of the stores that operate throughout the country.

The US Coast Guard Service returned 27 irregular Cuban migrants on Sunday, April 16 in its 36th operation of its kind this year.

 HAVANA, Cuba, Apr 17 (ACN) Roberto Morales Ojeda, member of the Political Bureau and Secretary of Organization of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, congratulated today the members of the Anti-Aircraft Defense and Revolutionary Air Force (DAAFAR by its Spanish acronym) on the 62nd anniversary of its creation.

 LAS TUNAS, Cuba, Apr 17 (ACN) A severe local storm broke the tranquility of this city last night, with heavy rains that reached over 120 millimeters (mm) in just two hours and 34 minutes, which have been considered by specialists of the Provincial Meteorological Center as the heaviest so far this year.

Combined forces of the Cuban Forest Ranger Corps (CGB by its Spanish acronym) and forest firefighters continue today to tackle a fire in the rural area known as Loma de Fana, northwest of the town of Montezuelo, in the municipality of Mantua, in the province of Pinar del Rio.