Army General Raul Castro, President of the councils of State and Ministers, sent on Friday a message of condolences to the President of France, Francois Hollande.

The Telecommunications Company of Cuba, ETECSA SA, announced on Thursday the opening of eight other wifi areas for wireless Internet access located in parks and urban zones of high influx of public, announced Granma newspaper.

The Executive Director of UNAIDS, Michel Sidibé, praised on Thursday in this capital Cuba's achievements in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of HIV/AIDS, and particularly for being the first country to eliminate mother-child transmission.

A meeting of the presidents of the economic conference of Japan and Cuba, chaired by Rodrigo Malmierca, Cuba's Minister of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment, and Mr. Tomoyoshi Kondo, adviser to trading company Sojitz Corp, took place on the occasion of the first meeting of the Cuban-Japanese Public-Private Joint Committee, held on November 10, 2015 in this city.

The national rainfall average in May-October period was lower than the historical average when registering a total of 855.4 millimeters, 84 percent of what must rain at this stage of the year, Granma newspaper reports.

The First Cuban-Russian Seminar in the sphere of Industrial Technologies, which defined its horizon until 2020, was held in this capital on November 10 and 11.

Army General Raul Castro, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) and President of the councils of State and Ministers, attended on Wednesday in this capital the ceremony held on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the independence of the Republic of Angola.

Gerald Watt, president of the Chamber of Deputies of Antigua and Barbuda, ratified on Wednesday in this capital the strong bonds of friendship and solidarity existing between his country and Cuba.

The Vice-president of the Council of Ministers, Ricardo Cabrisas, met on Wednesday afternoon with the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Thomas Vilsack, who began a working visit to Cuba.

Army General Raul Castro, President of the councils of State and Ministers, met on Wednesday afternoon with Marco Enriquez-Ominami and Pedro Abarca, president and general secretary of the Chilean Progressive Party, respectively, who are on a visit to Cuba.

A parliamentary delegation of the Chamber of Deputies of the Dominican Republic, members of the Agricultural and Livestock Commission, which is on a visit to Cuba, was received on Tuesday at the National Assembly of the People's Power (ANPP) by Yolanda Ferrer, president of the International Relations Commission of the Cuban Parliament.

A parliamentary delegation from the Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda is visiting Cuba November 11 and 13 headed by the speaker of the Chamber of Deputies Sir Gerald Watt, with the aim of strengthening friendly ties with the island´s parliament.

A Chinese Navy´s three-warship detachment is currently paying a friendly visit to Havana on the occasion of the 55th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Cuba and China.

The vice-director of the United States division at Cuba´s Foreign Ministry, Gustavo Machin announced that Havana and Washington gave concrete steps towards a short-term accord to establish regular flights between the two countries.

During the second meeting of the Cuba-US Bilateral Commission in Washington on Tuesday, the island´s representatives reiterated the need to lift the over-50-year economic, commercial and financial blockade as a priority to advance the normalization of bilateral relations.