New equipment for the quantification of total carbon in seawater will reinforce Cuba’s capabilities to study ocean acidification.

Rescue and lifesaving work continues today at the Saratoga Hotel in Havana, where firefighters and rescuers are working to reach the basement, Javier Martinez Diaz, member of the provincial executive bureau of the Cuban communist party, told reporters.

Manuel Marrero Cruz, Prime Minister of the Republic of Cuba, conveyed warm congratulations to all Cuban mothers on the occasion of today's Mother's Day.

The search for possible survivors in the basement of the Saratoga Hotel in the Cuban capital continues uninterruptedly by joint forces, since an accidental explosion occurred in that tourist facility in Old Havana on May 6.

Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez and Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Presidents of Cuba and Mexico, respectively, during official talks held this Sunday at the Palace of the Revolution in Havana, reiterated the ties of brotherhood between the two nations.

Andrés Manuel López Obrador, president of the United Mexican States, arrived this Saturday in Cuba through Havana's José Martí International Airport to begin a working visit.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez thanked governments, organizations, friends, and those from different parts of the world who have expressed their solidarity with the people and relatives of the victims of the accident at the Saratoga Hotel.

The General Customs of the Republic (AGR) inaugurated in Havana a modern office on real-time operational communication between international airports to counter organized crime, illicit drug trafficking and prevent terrorism (AIRCOP).

Four more bodies were found under the rubble at the Saratoga Hotel in Havana city, rising the death toll to 22. An explosion destroyed most the hotel around 11 AM, leaving also 74 injured.

Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel made statements to a presidential media team after concluding a meeting called by the government at the Palace of the Revolution to update on the situation associated with the explosion at the Saratoga Hotel.

After the explosion this morning at the Saratoga Hotel in Havana, hundreds of people have gone to the blood collection points set up throughout the province to contribute with their gesture to save the lives of the victims of the accident.

Gerardo Hernandez Nordelo, national coordinator of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR), highlighted today the solidarity of the Cuban people in the face of the accident that occurred Friday at the Saratoga Hotel in Havana, with a preliminary toll of nine dead and more than 30 wounded.

Sacha Llorenti, executive secretary of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America - Peoples' Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP), expressed today the most complete solidarity with the people and government of Cuba for the explosion that occurred this morning at the Saratoga Hotel in Havana.

Jose Angel Portal Miranda, Cuban minister of public health, arrived today in the Miguel Enriquez Hospital, one of the health care centers receiving the victims of the accident that occurred this morning at the Saratoga Hotel.

A group of 35 people are being treated at the General Calixto Garcia Clinical Surgical Teaching Hospital due to the impact of an explosion at the Saratoga Hotel, announced today Dr. Miguel Garcia Rodriguez, director of the institution.