Cuba's First Vice President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez oversaw on Monday in Holguin the recovery work in the municipality of Gibara one of the main towns affected by Hurricane Irma.

Commander of the Revolution Ramiro Valdes Menendez, Vice President of the Council of State and Ministers who heads the Cuban delegation to the activities on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the fall in combat of Ernesto Che Guevara spoke at the main event held in Vallegrande, Bolivia.

Cuban President Raúl Castro Ruz received on Thursday afternoon Mrs. Alicia Bárcena Ibarra, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), who is visiting Cuba.

Construction workers are working hard in the total restoration of the Martyrs of Barbados Memorial at the home where Carlos Leyva Gonzalez was born and lived, one of the victims of the bombing of a Cubana airliner on October 6th, 1976.

Six Cuban volleyball players signed contracts to play in the 2017-2018 professional season in Argentina.

Special forces from Cuba´s National Electric Union will travel to Martinique this week to assist in recovery efforts on that Caribbean island, one of the most devastated by Hurricanes Irma and Maria.

Representatives of organizations of Cuban civil society will travel to Bolivia on Thursday to pay tribute to Ernesto Che who died in combat 50 years ago.

The Meteorology Institute issued on Wednesday afternoon the second tropical storm advisory on the 16th tropical depression of the current season.

Meteorologists from Santiago de Cuba are on alert due to the high temperatures of the ocean, low levels of dust in the Saharan Desert and the neutrality of the Niño phenomenon (ENOS), all favorable conditions for hurricanes.

The Fukuoka Softbank Hawks, team of the Japanese Professional Baseball League (NPB) is looking for sluggers, similar to Cuban Alfredo Despaigne, said in this city Kenta Hagiwara, scout of the club in Latin America.

A group of Cuban women researchers received the Sofia Kovalievskaya Award in its seventh edition, prize conferred by the Foundation named after the famous Russian feminist and scientist of the 19th century.

The Cuban Workers Federation (CTC by its Spanish acronym) convened a national massive day to erase the aftermath of Hurricane Irma in a press release published in Trabajadores newspaper.

Russian business group RZD intends to modernize Cuban railway infrastructure, for which it will sign a contract of 1.8 billion euros, local media reported today.

Hurricane Irma, the strongest ever registered in the Atlantic, wreaked havoc through all the Cuban northern coast between September 7 and 10, leaving 10 people dead and an undetermined amount of material losses.

As part of its intention to taking Internet services to Cuban homes, the Cuban Telecommunications Company (Etecsa), as of September 29, will continue to commercialize the Nauta Hogar service, incorporating it gradually, and until the month of December, to all the provinces of the country.