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.

The 2nd Course on confronting phenomena of natural and technological origin to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will end today in this city.

Cuba and the United States signed on Thursday a historic memo of understanding to cooperate in Cancer control.

Cuban First Vice-President Miguel Diaz-Canel assessed the strategies designed to make up for the lack of teachers in the western province of Matanzas, where the school year started with some 1300 education professionals less than needed.

Mr. Stanley Mutumba Simataa, President of the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), arrived in Cuba yesterday on an official visit, CubaMinrex digital site reported.

Cuba's elderly population has increased to two million since 1992, some 19.2 percent up from 12.4 percent when the First Cuban Gerontology and Geriatrics Congress was held.

Cuban and Belgian parliamentary leaders considered bilateral relations between their legislative bodies as favorable and committed themselves to reactivate historic bonds, during talks in Paris, France.

Luis Guillermo Solís, president of Costa Rica, announced his country will vote again at the United Nations in favor of the Cuban resolution against the over 50 years long US blockade on Cuba.

The director general of the United States Department of the Cuban Foreign Ministry, Josefina Vidal, added on Monday her vote to those of millions of Cubans and said she's confident that in nine days the community of nations will do the same and will support again the fair demand of putting and end to the economic, commercial and financial blockade of that northern nation against the island.

The Federation of University Students (FEU by its Spanish acronym) and the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (INDER by its Spanish acronym) spoke at the stadium of the University of Havana against the US economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba, imposed more than 50 years ago.

Commander of the Revolution Ramiro Valdes, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party and Vice-president of the councils of State and Ministers, presented at Havana's Jose Marti National Library the book La Minería en Cuba. Una aproximación (Mining in Cuba: an Approach).