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.

At a meeting with directors, professors and students of the Technological University of Havana "José Antonio Echeverría" (CUJAE), Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez urged Cuban universities to keep up with the world’s state of the art in technical sciences.

The University of Havana (UH) is hosting the 1st International Congress "Persons with Disabilities as Subjects of Civil and Family Law", intended to provide a legal approach to a greater inclusion of this population group.

The US Coast Guard Service returned 41 irregular Cuban migrants to the island on February 28, the Cuban Interior Ministry announced on its website.

Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, First Secretary of Cuba’s Communist Party and Cuban President visited the Jose Antonio Echeverria Technology University in Havana on Wednesday.

Local authorities are investigating an explosion this morning in Old Havana in which, according to neighbors, one person was killed and another was injured.

Unit one of the Lidio Ramón Pérez Power Plant in Felton, in the province of Holguín, joined the national grid today after a scheduled 25-day-long maintenance program.