Crews from the Ministry of Construction (MICONS) of Cuba started building 59 solar power plants throughout the country, according to sources from that entity.

Cuban President Raul Castro sent a message of condolences to his Kirghiz counterpart Almazbek Atambayev for the victims of a plane crash near the capital city of the Asian country, Bishkek.

Five years after the implementation of the water loss reduction program in Havana, the province has 217 completed works benefited over 1.8 million people.

A report by agencies of the United Nations Organization registers Cuba as the country with the lowest prevalence of low birth weight (5.3%) in the region, Granma newspaper reported.

Iván Castro, vice president of the Provincial Administration Council (CAP by its Spanish acronym), told ACN that a decrease in the maximum costs of tickets in non-state transportation is foreseen in the Cuban western territory of Matanzas from next February.

More than 374 900 people visited the Ernesto Guevara Sculpture Complex during 2016 represents a record for the period, a continuous rise over several years reflecting the interest in Che's life and work.

Coffee collectors in the province of Santiago de Cuba face today the final stretch of the current coffee harvest, estimated at almost 1.5 million cans of the grain, for a growth of 19 percent in relation to the previous season.

Cuba´s First Vice-President Miguel Diaz-Canel held an exchange in Havana on Thursday afternoon with leaders of US protestant churches that are visiting Cuba.

Cuba and the United States held in Havana on Thursday their third meeting on mutual compensations to find a solution to the unsettled claims between the two countries.

Cuban Vice-President Salvador Valdes Mesa received Thursday afternoon his counterpart from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Choe Ryong Hae, who is in Cuba on a working visit.

Cuba News Agency now reproduces the full text of the joint statement between the governments of the Republic of Cuba and the United States of America, signed in Havana on Thursday, January 12, 2017

In what has been considered Obama´s last move towards the improvement of US-Cuba relations before leaving the White House, he revoked the dry-feet, wet-feet policy, which encouraged Cuban illegal migration to the US, and the medical parole program, aimed at having Cuban doctors abandon their medical missions in other countries to leave for the United States.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM), entity related to the UN system, gave Cuba a donation of mattresses and roof tiles for families affected by Hurricane Matthew in Guantanamo province.

A US religious delegation is currently on an official visit to Cuba with the objective of exchanging with their Cuban counterparts and explore possibilities for cooperation.

The Cuban Council of State, on the proposal made by its President Raul Castro, Vice Admiral Julio Cesar Gandarilla to the post of Interior Minister, replacing two-star General Carlos Fernandez Godin, who died on Friday at the age of 78.