More than 250 young Cubans who participated in the XIX World Festival of Youth and Students, which took place in the Russian city of Sochi, arrived this Monday, just before dawn, to this Havana.

IberoStar Hotels & Resorts Chain, one of the Spanish companies with largest presence in Cuba, announced that hotels operated by the company on the cays north of the country will receive visitors regularly at the beginning of the high tourism season.

The National Committee of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) met on Wednesday in Havana to discuss strengthening preventive, educational and social work in the community.

The International Congress on Information Technology, Cyber Society 2017 began on Tuesday in Havana with the presence of some 450 experts from China, US, Germany, Spain, Uruguay, Ecuador, Guatemala and Cuba.

HAVANA, Cuba, Oct 16 (acn)
La Havana, October 16, 2017
President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

A brigade of workers and students from the Ignacio Agramonte y Loynaz University of Camaguey began on Thursday working in the recovery process in the Puerto Piloto community of the municipality of Sierra de Cubitas north of Camaguey.

The Cuban duos of Sergio Gonzalez-Nivaldo Diaz and Leila Martinez-Lidiannis Echeverria won their respective matches in the second day of the 21st stop of the 2017 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour, based in Quinzhou, China.

The President of Viajes Cuba, Jose Manuel Bisbe York, highlighted on Wednesday in Pinar del Rio the importance of expanding cruise ships at the Guanahacabibes Peninsula, located in the country's most western region marked with beauty and virginity.

The 6th International Meeting on Children and Youth kicked off on Wednesday at the University of Havana with a call to rethink and dialog on the new generation, its challenges and uncertainties.

The beginning of the independence struggle by Carlos Manuel de Cespedes was remembered 149 years later on Tuesday in the Demajagua Museum Park but this time in a free nation, where the population of Granma province honored the beginning of the fight against colonialism.

Eusebio Leal, City Historian for the city of Havana called on the population on Tuesday at the Santa Ifigenia Cemetery in Santiago de Cuba for unity and maintain the legacy of the forefathers of the Homeland.

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.