The Cuban Council of Ministers approved general urban planning programs for five Cuban cities including the capital Havana.

The first secretary of the central committee of the Cuban communist party and president of the country, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, held a fruitful and cordial telephone exchange Tuesday morning with the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin.

Cuban deputy foreign minister Anayansi Rodriguez Camejo received Tuesday at the Cuban foreign ministry headquarters H.E. Mr. Kasim Asker Hasan Ali, as ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the Republic of Iraq, the Cuban foreign ministry's website Cubaminrex reported today.

The development of scientific research promoted by the University of Holguin(eastern Cuba) is one of the most affected branches within the teaching programs of that student center, due to the tightening of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed for six decades by the United States against Cuba.

The 8th International Workshop on Teaching Humanistic Studies is being held for the first time online, from today until the 24th, coordinated by the local University of Matanzas(western Cuba) and with representatives from seven countries.

The Cuban Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (CITMA by its Spanish acronym) highlighted on Twitter that today is the World Rainforest Day.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez met on Monday with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres in New York.

Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla congratulated today the staff of the International Press Center (CPI) on the 42nd anniversary of this institution.

A Cuban delegation, made up of four students from Villa Clara(central region of Cuba), is taking part in the International Informatics Olympiad for pre-university students, which is being held online from June 19 to 25.

On the occasion of the celebration today of Forestry Workers' Day, the first secretary of the Cuban communist party and president of the country, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, recognized the role of those who manage and preserve the country's natural heritage.

The National Institute of Agricultural Sciences (INCA by its Spanish acronym) implemented an innovation system with a participatory approach in the management of sustainable local development to increase the production of food, seeds and local prosperity.

Nearly 4,000 wildfires occurred in Cuba in the period 2008-2017 that affected 69,305 hectares of forests and evidenced the need to increase the perception of the risk they represent to our economy and environment.

Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel decreed official mourning from 6:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. on June 21, on the occasion of the death of His Excellency Kenneth David Buchizya Kaunda, founding father of the Republic of Zambia, reports Cubaminrex website.

On June 23rd the international community will again witness world support of the Cuban resolution to be submitted to the UNGA demanding the lifting of the US economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba, said Fernando Gonzalez, president of the Cuban Friendship Institute.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez and his Indian counterpart Madhu Sethi stressed the advancement of bilateral cooperation relations between their countries.