The Cuban parliament backed a draft bill on the country´s 2017 national budget which includes new tax regulations.

Cuban lawmakers paid tribute to Revolution leader Fidel Castro as they opened the Eight Session of the Parliament´s 8th Legislature at Havana´s Conventions Palace.

Cuban President Raul Castro sent a message of condolences to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on the occasion of the death of 92 people in a plane crash in the Black Sea, according to diplomatic sources.

With Fidel Castro´s death, the world lost one of its greatest masters, declared the iconic singer of United States traditional and folk music, Barbara Dane, when receiving the condition of honorary member of the National Association of Cuban Writers and Artists (UNEAC by its Spanish acronym).

Members of the Solidarity Committee with Cuba from the community of Santa Marta, Department of Cabañas, presented a donation to the Cuban embassy in El Salvador to send it to the victims of Hurricane Matthew.

Cuba´s First Vice-President Miguel Diaz-Canel signed on ·Wednesday the book of condolences opened at the Russian embassy for the brutal murder of the Russian ambassador to Turkey in Ankara last Monday.

The restoration of the National Capitol, in charge of the Office of the City Historian (OHC by its Spanish acronym), with the collaboration of the company MD Projektmanagement GmbH, was awarded the 2016 Bernhard Remmers Prize, granted by the German Academy of the same name.

The 2016-2017 sugar harvest in the province of Santiago de Cuba began ahead of the scheduled date at Paquito Rosales sugar mill, in the municipality of San Luis.

The Cuban telecommunications company ETCESA announced the launching of a pilot program of internet in Cuban homes in the next days.

Cuba's Telecom Company ETECSA and Google signed a bilateral accord Monday in Havana through which the US company offers the island its Google Global Cache service allowing Cuban users to connect faster to the contents on that popular browser.

The project The Roads of Coffee, aimed at safeguarding the cultural heritage of Cuban coffee, will allow tourists to know the history of the first coffee plantations in the eastern part of Cuba.

Southwest Airlines made its first regular commercial flight to Havana bringing 156 passengers thus joining JetBlue, Silver Airways, Delta and American Airlines, which were the first to reopen the US-Cuba connection closed over the past fifty years.

Canadian Helga Stephenson, who was executive director of the Toronto International Film Festival will receive on Monday in Havana the Coral of Honor Award during the current Film Festival in the Cuban capital.

Coming to Cuba is a dream come true, something I always wanted from my childhood, the renowned Brazilian actress Sonia Braga, special guest to the 38th edition of the Havana Film Festival, told the press.

Cuban foreign minister, Bruno Rodriguez is in Brussels to sign the Accord on Political Dialog and Cooperation with the European Union during a ceremony to take place Monday at the European Council.