Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel thanked all delegations which demanded at the 78 Session of the UN General Assembly the end of the US economic, commercial and financial blockade and the withdrawal of Cuba from the US list of states sponsors of terrorism.

 Cuban Parliament President Esteban Lazo Hernandez concluded an official visit to Vietnam, which marked the 50th anniversary of the first visit to that nation by the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro.

A revitalization program is underway in the renowned Cuban city of Trinidad, a major Cuban tourist destination about to celebrate its 510th birthday.

“The Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR) are a bulwark of the Revolution in our neighborhoods and communities,” Cuban Hero Gerardo Hernández Nordelo, national coordinator of the mass organization, said in the opening session of the 10th Congress of the CDRs.

Fifty years after Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro’s first visit to Vietnam, a Cuban delegation led by Esteban Lazo Hernández, president of the Parliament, participated in the ceremony in honor of the anniversary held in the city of Dong Ha.

The International Relations Commission of the National Assembly of People's Power (Parliament) of Cuba urged the U.S. Congress to denounce the recent terrorist attack against the Cuban Embassy in Washington and to enforce both its own laws and the international treaties and conventions it has subscribed.

To the delight of then President Tomas Estrada Palma 117 years ago, on September 29, 1906, the second Yankee intervention began with the arrival of 5,600 soldiers and marines on the battleships New Jersey and Virginia and the cruisers Minneapolis, Tacoma and Cleveland, a fleet only matched by the one engaged in the Naval Battle of Santiago de Cuba during the war against Spain in 1898.

The Forecast Center of the Institute of Meteorology reported that Tropical Storm Philippe keeps heading west and is bound to weaken as a result of strong wind shear that pushes rainfall area away from its center.

“Barely a year has passed and it is making history,” Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said about the Family Code approved by 66.85% of the voters in a popular referendum on September 25 last year.

In a statement issued on Tuesday, the Cuban civil society regretted the lack of progress towards the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and called on developed nations to honor their compromises.

Havana, Sept 26 (ACN) Experts from 11 countries of the world attended a ceremony in Havana marking the 43 year of the USSR-Cuba space flight by Astronauts Yuri Romanenko and Arnaldo Tamayo onboard the Soyuz 38 spaceship.

Authorities from The Cayman Islands and the United States returned a total of 42 irregular migrants to Cuba in two operations on Tuesday.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel demanded an investigation and punishment of the perpetrator of the terrorist attack on Sunday against the Cuban embassy in Washington D.C.

Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban Foreign Minister, ratified today in New York City that moving towards nuclear disarmament in a transparent, verifiable and irreversible manner is and must continue to be a very high priority.

Exhibitions, conferences, trova and poetry performances, visits to museums and publication of specialized materials make up the celebration in Santiago de Cuba for the International Coffee Day, on October 1.