Nearly half the Cuban flora species are endangered, with the largest numbers of them located in western Pinar del Rio province and Eastern Cuba according to a recent scientific report.

Five Cuban volleyball players, who were given five prison years by a Finnish court on August 31 for aggravated rape against an adult Finnish woman, have appealed the sentence, according to Cuban Sports authorities.

Cuban government vice-president and Economy minister Ricardo Cabrisas and visiting French State Secretary Matthias Fekl held talks Thursday in Havana and reaffirmed the strengthening of bilateral relations between the two countries.

Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro received visiting Portuguese President Maracelo Rebelo de Sousa on Wednesday evening, in what was described as a very friendly meeting.

Cuban President Raul Castro held talks Wednesday with Portuguese Head of State Marcelo Rebelo de Souza, who is paying an official visit to Cuba.

The World condemned on Wednesday at the United Nations, for the 25th occasion, the economic, commercial and financial blockade of the United States against Cuba, while the abstention of the U.S. government was unprecedented.

A group of survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima y Nagasaki who travel in the Peace Boat will meet with Cuban representatives and students on Wednesday at Havana's Latin American Medical School (ELAM).

Over 90 percent of the total of clients of the Basic Electric Organization (OBE) of Guantanamo in the municipalities damaged by Hurricane Matthew have been reestablished that service, one of which measures the standard of living of a nation.

For his outstanding work in favor of the strengthening of relations between Cuba and France, Jean Pierre Bel, special envoy of the President of that European nation for Latin America and the Caribbean, was presented on Tuesday with the Friendship Medal.

Once again the international community will support Cuba when it submits on Wednesday at the United Nations General Assembly the resolution "Need to put an end to the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed on Cuba by the United States of America."

The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) supports the recovery of Baracoa, Maisi, Imias and San Antonio del Sur, the municipalities most affected by in eastern Cuba after the passage of Hurricane Matthew.

Cuban Foreign Minister (FM) Bruno Rodriguez arrived on Monday in New York for a new voting at the United Nations General Assembly -which will take place on October 26- on the need to lift the U.S. blockade against the Caribbean nation.

The President of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, will arrive in Cuba on Tuesday on an official visit.

Cuban Health Minister Roberto Morales welcomed US Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Burwell in Havana, on Thursday.

Materials delivery to the victims of Hurricane Matthev in Guantanamo advances to safe passage and with the rigor required, to ensure this process not to deviate from the provisions of the law.