Cuban President Raul Castro offered an official welcome to Canada´s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who is paying a state visit to the island.

Havana, acknowledged this year as Wonder City of the Modern World, is celebrating its 497 birthday with a large cultural agenda.

The Cuban electric company (UE) warned that in order to avoid blackouts in the residential area it is necessary to save energy, particularly during peak hours.

Dr. Fernando Elisio Freire, Minister of Sports of the Republic of Cape Verde, will arrive Monday night in Cuba on an official visit that will include the signing of a Cooperation Agreement with the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (INDER by its Spanish acronym).

The President of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam Tran Dai Quang will arrive in Cuba on Tuesday 15 on an official visit.

The first flight to Cuba by American company Southwest Airlines arrived on Sunday at Juan G. Gómez International Airport, near Varadero resort, with 143 passengers on board, and it starts operations with two daily flights from Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

The attention to the needs and challenges of Cuban youngsters who have joined the private and cooperative sector is the focus of sessions of the National Committee of the Young Communist League, taking place in Havana Friday and Saturday.

A large fire caused serious damage to seven state-run facilities in the corner of Enramadas and San Pedro streets in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba this Tuesday afternoon.

The four decades of exercise of Popular Power in the province of Camagüey have been fraught with challenges, but the people have always responded with stoicism and revolutionary spirit, said Evis Blas González Martínez, third president of the Provincial Assembly of that body in the territory.

Canada´s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will pay an official visit to Cuba November 15 during which he will hold talks with Cuban President Raul Castro.

Cuban Science, Technology and Environment minister Elba Rosa Perez signed scientific cooperation documents with her counterparts from Ethiopia and Sri-Lanka.

With balance of seven wins, Cuban Alejandro Valdés remains unbeaten in the German Wrestling League (Bundesliga), in which he competes for the SVG Weingarten, so far leader of the tournament.

Flight 098 of the US airline Silver Airways landed on November 3 in Santiago de Cuba with 34 people onboard to open this eastern Cuba city to direct commercial flights from the United States.

Twenty Brazilians from Santa Catarina Trade Union Confederation are touring places of economic and social interest in Cuba with the aim of exchanging with workers and gaining experience in different sectors of trade union direction.

Cuban and German port authorities signed the first memorandum of understanding in this transport area with view to trace the business patterns that may arise in attending cruises.