A shipment of humanitarian aid sent by the World Food Programme (WFP) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) arrived in the city of Santiago de Cuba to bolster recovery efforts in the eastern provinces hit by Hurricane Melissa.

As is tradition, November 16th commemorates the definitive foundation of the Villa of San Cristóbal de La Habana, established very near the entrance to the bay.

The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of Qatar, Sultan bin Saad Al Muraikhi, met with Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Elio Rodríguez on bilateral relations between the two nations.

Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro closely followed the progress of his project to create the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), a task entrusted to a 23-year-old member of the 26th of July Movement, Giraldo Mazola Collazo (1937-2024), founding director of the entity established on December 30, 1960.

In an effort to improve the country’s power supply system, the branch of the Empresa de Grupos Electrógenos y Servicios Eléctricos (GEYSEL) in the province of Camagüey undertakes maintenance and repair works thanks to the parts and components donated by the People's Republic of China to Cuba.

The construction of a Community with a Shared Future, solidarity-based cooperation, and sincere mutual support took center stage at the Joint Forum between China's Xinhua News Agency and Cuba’s Instituto of Información y Comunicación Social (ICS) held in Havana.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel attended the setting up on Tuesday of a new solar park in the western province of Artemisa, which was donated by China.

A donation of four thousand 375 tarpaulins for temporary roof covering by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) was received in eastern Santiago de Cuba as part of the UN response to the impact of Hurricane Melissa on the eastern Cuba.

Laurent Brun, member of the Confederal Bureau and Administrator of the General Confederation of Labor (CGT by its Spanish acronym ), announced a donation of 130,000 euros raised by the organization to support those affected in the eastern provinces following Hurricane Melissa.

New donations from sister organizations and nations were received today in Santiago de Cuba, with the aim of contributing to the swift recovery of the areas affected by Hurricane Melissa.

The delivery of cabbage, lettuce, beet, and carrot seeds to the municipalities of Guantanamo, Niceto Perez, and Caimanera, donated by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), allowed for the immediate start of planting in Urban, Suburban, and Family Agriculture units, reported Yoanda Kindelan, director of that program in the province.

The Russian Society of Friendship with Cuba commemorated this Tuesday the 61st anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's election as president of the then Soviet-Cuban Friendship Society, an event that took place during the official visit to Moscow of a Cuban delegation headed by Commander Ernesto "Che" Guevara, as reported by the Cubaminrex website.

The telecommunications sector in Guantanamo, identified as one of the hardest hit by Hurricane Melissa, has restored 14,042 landline services, a significant step forward in its recovery process.

The Supreme People's Court announced that the espionage trial against Alejandro Gil Fernandez, former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Planning, will begin today behind closed doors, in accordance with Law 143 of the Cuban Criminal Procedure Code.

Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, highlighted today the potential for further strengthening cooperation ties with India in various sectors.