Roberto Morales Ojeda, secretary of organization of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), held a meeting on Thursday with representatives of political organizations from Europe, who are visiting Havana as part of the 5th International Conference for the World Balance.

Cuba’s permanent representative a United Nations office in Geneva, Juan Antonio Quintanilla, stressed that nuclear disarmament must be a prirority, since those weapons pose serious, imminent threat on human life.

The jury of the Haiku for Japan: Samurai Hasekura contest awarded today the top prizes in the youth and children's categories to Cuban girls Maria de Jesus Hernandez and Lorena Palma, respectively, both of whom are members of the children's group La rama verde (The green branch).

Cooperation in the current context, solidarity in response to nuclear weapons and the promotion of spiritual and moral values at the new stage of civilization's development will be among the topics today in 5th International Conference “For World Balance”.

The U.S. Coast Guard (SGC) returned to Cuba 69 irregular migrants—61 men and 8 women—to the port of Orozco, in Bahía Honda, province of Artemisa, according to the Cuban Ministry of the Interior (MININT).

Over 1.300 vacationers from different nationalities arrived at the harbor of eastern Santiago de Cuba province onboard a cruise ship of the British company Ambassador Cruise Line, which is the second such boat of its kind to dock here during the current winter season.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel thanked Pope Francis for his message to the 5th International Conference “For World Balance”, currently under way in this city with more than 1,100 scholars of Marti's thought from 88 countries.

José Alejandro Zapata, delegate of the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment, described the 18th International Symposium on Social Communication under way in this city, attended by 70 scholars from Cuba, Spain, Austria, the Netherlands, Italy, Mexico and the United States, as a gem of Latin American cultural resistance and a great space for scientific exchange that will ratify linguistics as a strategic communication tool and as the soul and center of the nation entrusted with the preservation of cultural identity.

Many publications refer to José Martí's journalistic work in the newspaper Patria as the peak of his experience in the written press, but little is said about his stint as a correspondent through the section Constante, a sample of his more brief and direct style, which he practiced in New York in the late 1881 and the early 1882 for the Venezuelan daily La Opinión Nacional.

Cuban deputy prime minister Ricardo Cabrisas signed the book of condolence placed at the Gambian Embassy in Havana on the occasion of the death of Badara Alieu Joof, vice president of that country, on January 18.

Cuba is designing a national metrics for the Global Innovation Index and the measurement of economic and social development, said Ines Maria Chapman, deputy prime minister of the Republic during a meeting of the Inter-institutional Council of the Science, Technology and Innovation Macro-program.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel met with his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Tuesday, in Argentina.

Jorge Luis Perdomo Di-Lella, Cuban deputy prime minister, exchanged today in Havana with three directors of the Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer (RCPI by its Spanish acronym) based in Buffalo, in the State of New York.

The 1st International Meeting of Theoretical Publications of Parties and Movements of the Left, organized by the theoretical and political body of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), Cuba Socialista, will be held in Havana February 10-12.

Opening the 7th Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) in Buenos Aires, Argentina's President Alberto Fernandez called on the 33 countries of the region to promote unity in diversity as a principle to grow together.