The Meteorology Institute issued advisory number 6 on Tropical Storm Franklin.

The Cuban national basketball men´s team beat 76-71 a squad from the American University of Louisiana.

Cuba will look today for its first win when facing Puerto Rico in the FIBA Women´s Americup 2017 running in Buenos Aires, Argentina, until August 13.

The Veranes Construction Cooperative in Santiago de Cuba was the only non-state in the country to reach the status of National Vanguard for the results of 2016, granted by the Cuban Workers Federation (CTC).

The coasts of the South-Central Cuban province of Sancti Spiritus are losing some 1.3 meters every year as a result of climate change, according to local environment authorities.

Based on Leandro Martinez´s pitching and a 13-hit attack, Granma, current monarch, defeated home 10-3 Villa Clara to achieve their first win in the current 57th Cuban National Baseball Series.

The ¨Luz Para la Vida¨ Maternal Milk Bank in the Vladimir Ilich Lenin Provincial Hospital in the Eastern city of Holguin has contributed in the nutrition of over 50 new born in the territory so far this year.

The preparations for the 2017-2018 sugar harvest in Cuba began in several provinces at agricultural and industrial levels, especially in sugarcane plantations and the repair of sugar mills that will be in action.

The Volunteer Labor Brigade of Latin America and the Caribbean, which comprises representatives from 11 countries, began a tour of the province of Las Tunas today, with the aim of exchanging with Cubans at cultural, health and economic institutions .

A network of thirteen earthquake accelerographs will be installed in the main city of Guantanamera as part of the international project Prepared Cities and Alerts for Seismic Hazards, implemented to improve management in the face of the danger of such events in eastern Cuba.

The example of my father always inspires me specially at difficult crossroads such as the one Cuba now faces, said Aleida Guevara March, daughter of the Heroic Guerrilla, Commander Ernesto Che Guevara, to whom the XLI National Day of The Political Song is dedicated.

At 2:58 pm yesterday the Network of Stations of the National Seismological Service registered a perceptible earthquake, located at 19.81 degrees North Latitude and 75.46 degrees West Longitude, 38 km southwest of the town of Caimanera, in the province of Guantanamo, and 47 km southeast of the city of Santiago de Cuba, with a magnitude of 4.0 on the Richter scale and a depth of 46 km.

The Cuban women´s duo of Lidiannis Echeverria-Leila Martinez got two wins over Colombian and Russian duets in the continuation of the 2017 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships running in Vienna, Austria, until next Sunday.

The Cuban duo of Sergio Gonzalez and Nivaldo Diaz defeated the pair made up by Daneil Williams-Phillip Marlon, from Trinidad and Tobago, thus achieving its second win in group A of the 2017 World Beach Volleyball Championships, based in Vienna, Austria.

The members of the Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity with Cuba Brigade which arrived on Monday to the Julio Antonio Mella International Camp in Artemisa province congratulated the Venezuelan people for their victory in Sunday's Yes Vote for the Constituent Assembly.