In a post on X, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Cuba's Foreign Affairs Minister, said that the measures announced by the U.S. government are limited in scope, disregard the impact of both the blockade and the inclusion of Cuba on the list of State Sponsors of Terrorism, and seek to create divisions within Cuban society.

“Cuba will not hinder the measures announced by the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to favor our private sector, even though they are limited and do not benefit the whole society,” said Johana Tablada, deputy director general of the U.S. division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MINREX).

During his official visit to Antigua and Barbuda, Cuban VP Salvador Valdés Mesa met with Gaston Alphonso Browne, Prime Minister of that Caribbean nation.

Adianez Taboada Zamora, deputy minister of Cuba’s Science, Technology and the Environment (CITMA), stressed that the Caribbean countries and small island states need access external financing to purchase cutting-edge technologies designed to counteract the effects of climate change.

In a post on X, the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs thanked Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador for his pronouncement against the inclusion of the island on the spurious list of state sponsors of terrorism.

In a post on X, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez welcomed the signing of the Agreement on the Development of the Process of Participation of Society in the Construction of Peace in Colombia.

About 540 hectares (ha) of forest were hit in the last few days in the province of Pinar del Río by two massive fires, put out after days of intense struggle.

Delegates from Argentina, Colombia, Cuba, Spain, the United States, Mexico and Paraguay, as well as specialized international organizations, confirmed their attendance to the Meteorology Convention, to be held in this city.

In a post on X to commemorate Africa Day, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel assured that he will continue to strengthen ties of brotherhood and cooperation with African nations and highlighted their role in the formation of the identity, culture, history and fighting spirit of the Cubans.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel visited the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Havana to offer his condolences for the death of Iranian President Dr. Sayed Ebrahim Raisi and several other officials in a helicopter crash.

The Cuban government appointed Oscar Perez-Oliva as new Foreign Trade and Investment, replacing Ricardo Cabrizas, who had held the position since last year.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel congratulated Abel Prieto, President of Casa de las Americas, who received on Thursday the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa in Philological Sciences from the Central University of Las Villas Marta Abreu (UCLV).

The Cuba Office of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported that the implementation of the project South-South Cooperation: Digital Transformation and Innovation in Agriculture, is advancing in the country with the support of the People's Republic of China and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC).

The Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis delivered a donation of medical supplies worth some 6,500 dollars to Havana’s "América Arias" Gynecobstetric Hospital, a center specialized in the care of women in fertile stage and clinical and surgical gynecological services and in assisted reproduction treatments.

Miguel Diaz-Canel, First Secretary of Cuba’s Communist Party Central Committee and Cuban President congratulated on Tuesday all workers with the Cuban News Agency on the occasion of the 50th birthday of the media outlet.