Hundreds of lives saved, specialists trained and health indicators improved in Burkina Faso are the reasons for celebrating 35 years of Cuban medical cooperation in this sub-Saharan African country.

Through a videoconference, parliamentary delegations from Cuba and Senegal discussed on Tuesday the prevention and confrontation of COVID-19 in both countries, and international cooperation in health issues.

The people of the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba will pay homage this Wednesday to the historical leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro on the fourth anniversary of his physical disappearance

The Council of State, at the proposal of the President of the Republic and prior approval of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party, agreed to promote to the position of Minister of the Interior Brigadier General Lázaro Alberto Álvarez Casas, current vice minister of the same organization.

This Tuesday morning the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba met, presided over by its First Secretary, Army General Raúl Castro Ruz.

 The Vietnam Union of Friendship Organizations (VUFO) granted the Peace and Friendship among Nations medal to outgoing Cuban Ambassador Lianys Torres.

The government of Havana and the European Union (EU) signed collaboration deals to fight the Covid-19 pandemic, local media reported.

Saudi Arabia's Ambassador to Cuba, Faisal Muslat G. Almandeel, visited Matanzas province, where he was welcomed by Mario Sabines, Governor of that western Cuban territory, local media reported.

Cuba will expand in 2021 the capacities of the Internet connection in the country, according to Vice-Minister of the Ministry of Communications, Ana Julia Marine, reports the news agency Prensa Latina.

Cuba's Hemingway Marina announced this Monday its reopening for foreign pleasure boats, with strict compliance with sanitary measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

More than two thousand organizations from 162 countries are expected to be represented at the International Youth Meeting "Ideas that are flags", which will be in session from this Tuesday until next Thursday in a virtual way, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Let's talk about Work in Cuba. The necessary debate and the future to be built is the title of the book that will be launched on Tuesday in the Center of Psychological and Sociological Research (CIPS), in this capital.

Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, President of Cuba, led a government visit to the western province of Matanzas where he checked that there is a work strategy throughout the territory, that priorities are worked out and that there is a good atmosphere in the population

Cuban Sandra Delfín de León is one of the six researchers accredited today as winners of the UNESCO 2020 Young Scientists Award, an initiative that stimulates work on issues of ecology and sustainability.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez rejected the recent ban by the US State Department on humanitarian cargo flights from the United States to Cuba.