The Cuban Civil Aviation Corporation S.A. reported that no one was injured during the emergency landing of a Southwest Airline plane in Havana.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez welcomed Igor Sechin, CEO of the Russian oil company Rosneft, whom he called “dear friend” and thanked for his visit.

Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz held talks Friday with Singapore’s ambassador to Havana Chua Kee Lock on issues of bilateral interest for their countries.

Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, First Secretary of Cuba’s Communist Party and Cuban President met the Chair of Bolivia’s Chamber of Senators Andronico Rodriguez and Senator Leonardo Loza on Friday at the Revolution Palace.

Mexican migration authorities returned 22 persons to Cuba on Friday through the Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, the Cuban Interior Ministry reported.

The president of the International Olympic Committee Tomas Bach granted Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel his institution’s Gold Medal acknowledging his support of the world Olympic movement.

After almost a week of different activities that reaffirmed why Cuban cigars are the best in the world, the 23rd Habano Festival, which includes a trade fair and an international seminar with master lectures, came to its final day today.

The French steamship La Coubre arrived in Havana harbor from Antwerp, Belgium, on the morning of March 4, 1960, with 100 tons of grenades and ammunition, in fulfillment of contracts signed with the war industry of that country, mainly for the acquisition of the Light Automatic Rifles (FAL), considered among the best of its time.

Ernesto Soberon, director general of Consular Affairs and Attention to Cubans Living Abroad (DACCRE by its Spanish acronym), will head today in Ecuador the delegation of the island for the 10th round of migration talks between the two nations.

 The Cuban Association of the United Nations (ACNU) issued today a statement rejecting and condemning the inclusion of Cuba in the unilateral list of State Sponsors of Terrorism drawn up by the U.S. government.

Outstanding Cuban orthopedist Doctor Rodrigo Alvarez Cambra passed away on Thursday at 88 in Havana.

In tune with bilateral migration accords, a flight from The Bahamas brought back to Cuba 128 irregular migrants, according to the Cuban Interior Ministry.

Army General Raúl Castro and Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel welcomed Army General Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, who is paying a working visit to this city.

Cuba will launch tomorrow a special action plan for the protection of Cuban wildlife, scheduled to be completed on April 20, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).

The German Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Chilean Neven Ilic, President of Panam Sports, along with other top sports executives, will arrive in Cuba today to begin a two-day visit.