On September 1st, schools will begin its new academic year with better material and organizational conditions that will facilitate over one million 700 thousand children in primary and secondary levels and some 170 thousand students in higher education.

A 16-strong Cuban medical brigade departed this morning for Dominica, a small Caribbean island hit by Tropical Storm Erika last week.

Russian and Cuban authorities evaluated the current state and prospects of bilateral collaboration in the field of civil aviation during MAKS-2015 International Aerospace Fair, in Zhukovski city, some 30 kilometers from Moscow.

Panama's head of state, Juan Carlos Varela, announced on Thursday that he will travel to Cuba on September 9 with a delegation of businessmen of his country, with the main objective of boosting trade between the two nations.

Experts with the Cuban Water Resources Institute announced a cloud seeding program as of September 15 as part of measures to relieve hard hit areas by the prolong drought and lack of rainfalls.

Cuba will expose its most significant achievements in the area of sexual health and education during the 7th Cuban Congress on those subjects to take place September 14 to 18 at Havana´s Conventions Center.

The quality of the works underway at Havana´s Revolution Square for the visit of Pope Francis to Cuba is excellent, said Monsignor Rodolfo Loiz, who is in charge of preparing the trip of the Holy Father to Cuba, scheduled for September 19-22.

As foreign tourists continue visiting Cuba at an impressive rate mainly encouraged in the reestablishment of diplomatic relations between the island and the US many are asking themselves the question: Is the Cuban tourism industry ready to take on the "wave" of vacationers expected in the upcoming season?

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov and Cuba's Ambassador to that country, Emilio Lozada, assessed the progress of bilateral relations, especially economic and trade.

A group of 23 Haitian youths will soon travel to Cuba to take medicine, engineering, economy and other higher education courses as part of permanent Cuban collaboration with that sister Caribbean nation.

Some 900 thousand citizens in eastern Cuba will benefit from a World Food Program´s country strategy aimed at reinforcing social and local protection systems focusing on food security.

Tropical storm Erika is expected to approach the Leeward Islands or Northern Lesser Antilles Wednesday night or early on Thursday as it is moving westward as fast as 20 miles per hour, 31 kilometers per hour, though its speed is to lower over the next 48 hours.

The Federation of Cuban Women, FMC, will commemorate its 55 th anniversary on August 23rd founded by the historic leader of the Revolution Fidel Castro as a renovated and strengthened organization that extols its main values: defense of the Revolution and women's equality.

Cuban President Raul Castro sent warm congratulations to the Cuban Women´s Federation on its 55 anniversary, an organization set up on August 23rd 1960 by Fidel Castro and Vilma Espin.

The Cuban Meteorology Institute issued at 11 AM this Thursday the Tropical Hurricane Advisory 4 on Hurricane Danny.