Kenyan authorities are making intense efforts, in collaboration with the Cuban government, for the safe return of the two Caribbean doctors kidnapped since last April on the border between Kenya and Somalia.

The President of the Councils of State and Ministers, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, received this Thursday at Revolution Palace Ivan Mélnikov, first vice-president of the State Duma and of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, who is visiting our country.

Millions of Cubans from different generations marched on the island's main squares and thoroughfares to celebrate International Workers' Day.

Cuba won undefeated the 2019 U19 Boy´s Pan American Volleyball Cup based in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, when defeating Mexico, defending champion, 3-0 (25-18, 26-24 and 25-19).
The tournament granted the last two tickets to the age-group FIVB World Championship to take place in Tunisia from next August 21 to 30, but Cuba had already qualified to the universal contest thanks to its triumph in the U18 NORCECA qualifiers held in Honduras last year.

Cuban Telecommunications Company (ETECSA) will start marketing, as of today, the service of hosting of websites for natural people.

Bruno Rodriguez, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, was received by Carlos Alvarado Quesada, President of the Republic of Costa Rica, country in which the Cuban diplomat is making an official visit with the purpose of expanding cooperation.

Miguel Díaz-Canel, President of the Councils of State and Ministers, inaugurated on Monday the Hotel Río San Juan, in this Cuban city, during the government visit to the western province of Matanzas.

Cuba's Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, received Florida's member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Charlie Crist, who came to Cuba heading a delegation made up of legislative assistants from other Congressional offices and businessmen.

A severe local storm affected the city of Santa Clara on Sunday afternoon, and the Institute of Meteorology reported that, according to preliminary reports, in the province of Villa Clara there were strong gusts of wind, hailstorms and intense rains in some localities.

Bruno Rodriguez, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, will be received this Monday by his Costa Rican counterpart Manuel Ventura, as part of the program foreseen in the official three-day visit of the Cuban diplomat.

José Ramón Machado Ventura, second secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, said that the Cuban Workers Federation (CTC) is decisive in the current circumstances, in which the Homeland requires the support of the working class, along with the peasants and other manual and intellectual workers.

The 14th contingent of the May Day Brigade of Voluntary Work and Solidarity with Cuba will arrive this Thursday in the province of Sancti Spíritus, as part of its visit to the archipelago from the 22nd to the 5th of next month.

Gladys María Bejerano Portela, Vice President of the Council of State and Comptroller General of the Republic, arrived on Wednesday in China at the head of the high-level Cuban delegation that will attend from this Thursday until Saturday the II Forum of the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, in Beijing, under the title "Cooperation of the Belt and Road Forum, shaping a brighter shared future".

The Communist Party of Russia awarded the Lenin Prize to Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, according to Sputnik.

The XXI Congress of the Cuban Workers Federation (CTC), concludes today in this capital with the reading of the report resulting from the debates and the presentation of the secretariat and the National Council of that workers' organization.