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.

Commander of the Revolution Ramiro Valdes toured the towns of the northern coast of the central province of Camaguey that took the brunt of the havoc wreaked by Hurricane Irma on September 8.

On Tuesday, September 26, 2017, at the proposal of the Cuban side, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, was received by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson at the State Department.

11th International Nature Tourism Event, TURNAT 2017, will start today from the Guardalavaca spa resort, about 50 kilometers from the city of Holguin and its activities will extend until the next September 30 in the city of Baracoa in Guantánamo.

Experts and technicians from the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (CITMA) in Camagüey conducted a preliminary assessment of the environmental impacts caused by Hurricane Irma in the north and south coastal areas of the territory .