The amount of water stored in reservoirs administered by the National Institute of Hydraulic Resources (INRH) amounts to 7.37 billion cubic meters, a figure that represents 81 percent of the total capacity, said in this city directors of the organization.

Dr. Eusebio Leal, Historian of Havana City, received in New York the Hadrian Award granted by the World Monuments Fund (WMF) in recognition of his efforts to preserve and restore Old Havana, declared Cultural Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1982.

Daouda Azoupiou, Burkina Faso´s Minister of Sports and Recreation, said that the brutal blockade against Cuba, which also attacks sports, must cease because it hinders the economic development of the country.

We will always continue fighting for the end of the blockade. It is an unjust decision against the people and it has not allowed Cuba to develop, Salvador Sanchez Ceren, president of El Salvador, said after his arrival in Havana for an official visit.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla received Donald Payne Jr., Democratic Congressman for the State of New Jersey and member of the Black Caucus of the House of Representatives of the United States Congress.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel is touring Ciego de Ávila's centers of economic and social interest as part of a government visit to the province.

The II Russia-Latin America and the Caribbean Business Forum will be held for the first time in the Cuban capital on October 29th, within the framework of the XXXVI International Fair of Havana (FIHAV 2018), official sources announced on Monday.

The XI Congress of Marine Sciences, MarCuba 2018, was inaugurated on Monday at the Conventions Center in Havana under the motto "Today's sciences for the coasts and the sea of the future".

Ana Maria Mari Machado, vice president of Cuba´s National Assembly of the People's Power, carries out an intense working agenda in France, as part of an official visit to that European country that concludes today.

Cuban tobacco growers expect to collect some 34 thousand tons of tobacco leaves this harvest, that wraps up in the first months of 2019, a 13 percent increase compared to the last one.

The emblematic Sauto Theatre, National Monument, will host this Friday night the Solemn Assembly of the People's Power that will greet the 325th anniversary of the city of San Carlos and San Severino de Matanzas, the first modern city in Cuba.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel visited the southern municipality of Batabanó, in the province of Mayabeque to evaluate the damages caused by Hurricane Michael at the beginning of the week.

Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, President of the Councils of State and Ministers, checked on Sunday in Pinar del Río the work of recovery after the passing of hurricane Michael on the westernmost province of Cuba.

Cuban Alfredo Despaigne blasted two home runs today in the 6-1 win of his club, the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, over the Chiba Lotte Marines, in the Pacific circuit of the Japanese Professional Baseball League (NPB).

Michael has intensified and now has sustained winds of 120 kilometres per hour, with higher gusts and its central pressure is 982 hectoPascal, so it became a hurricane category one on the Saffir Simpson scale of a maximum of five, the Institute Meteorology reported in its Tropical Cyclone Warning No. 8.