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.

Yves Gagnon, Canada's ambassador to Havana, highlighted on Thursday that relations between his country and Cuba are very strong, while addressing participants in the closing ceremony of the 14th Seminar of Studies on Canada, held at the capital's Casa de las Americas cultural institution.

Poor rainfall reported in the mountainous area of Villa Clara from September 2014 to date have caused an unprecedented drought in the area, resulting in affectation in agricultural work.

Experts with the World Health Organization (WHO) will arrive March 22 in Havana to consider the certification of Cuba as the first country in the world to have wiped out the transmission of Syphilis and HIV via mother to child.

Cuba´s first vice-president Miguel Diaz-Canel is in Namibia to attend the swearing-in ceremony for president-elect Hage Geingob and to participate at celebrations for the 25th anniversary of that country´s national independence.

In the heart of downtown Windhoek, capital of Namibia, a street flanked by main commercial offices and businesses bears the name of Fidel Castro, in honor to the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution.

Members of Cuban student organizations and youth movements are gathering in Havana to contribute, from their experience and reality, ideas and proposals to the Civil Society Forum that will take place in Panama April 8-10, during the 7th Summit of the Americas.

Cuban President Raul Castro may visit Russia in 2015, the Cuban Ambassador to Russia Emilio Lozada Garcia told RIA Novosti this week.