Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla held official talks on Wednesday in Lisbon with Portugal's Minister of Foreign Business, Augusto Santos Silva.

Significant rain has been registered in the last 24 hours in the province of Santiago de Cuba's southern area, but did not benefit the 11 reservoirs that are currently at 37.7 percent of its total capacity.

Austrian cyclist registered in the Guinness World Records Book, Jacob Jurl began on Wednesday in the extreme eastern part of the island a tour across the country to protest against the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the US against Cuba over a half a century ago.

A storm with sustained winds of 84 kilometers per hour with gusts up to 134 hit the Cuban eastern city of Las Tunas wreaking havoc in the buildings, trees and electrical grid.

Havana has a development project that includes the repair of 40 parks each month, Juan Carlos Martínez Bueno, director of Communal Services.

Vladimir Ilich Lenin Hospital in the province of Holguin will extend its services to the population in 2017 with the installation of new medical equipment that will benefit oncology, neonatology and obstetrics patients, among other specialties.

The Council of the Provincial Administration in Santiago de Cuba recently approved an Environmental Strategy, which includes all necessary actions to be taken until 2020, to mitigate the impacts of climate change on the environment.

Specialists and workers of the Alturas de Banao Ecological Reserve, located 20 kilometers south of this Santi Spiritus city, saved from extinction the Tabernaemontana apoda, an endemic specie of the province of Sancti Spíritus and one of the five most threatened in Cuba.

Raul Roa, known as the "Foreign Minister of Dignity", was honored on Tuesday in Havana on the 110th anniversary of his birth.

An earthquake measuring 3.9 on the Richter scale shook Cuba's southeastern municipalities of Caimanera in Guantanamo and Santiago de Cuba provinces on Tuesday afternoon without material damages or human loses reported.

Cuba's Justice Minister Maria Esther Reus and the UN Special Rapporteur Maria Grazia Gianmarinaro exchanged on Tuesday in Havana on the country's National Action Plan for the Prevention and Combating of
Trafficking in Persons and Protection of Victims for the period 2017-2020.

The 16 Senior Citizens Homes in Ciego de Avila province were remodeled during the past year and are already certified meaning that their optimum construction conditions are ready to begin applying a rate implemented since 2014.

Stability and discipline in the work of urban and suburban agriculture of Villa Clara is to finish its first trimester of this year with a production of 40 thousand tons of food.

The Ministry of Higher Education (MES) and specialized institutions in the field signed on Friday in Havana three agreements aimed at promoting the apprenticeship of Cuban history and the improvement of programs of the subject taught in the universities.

The Cuban Geology Society (SCG) and the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE) signed a cooperation agreement on Friday in Havana.