The European Commission recognized on Thursday in the city of Sancti Spiritus Cuba's contribution to the improvement of the early warning system applied by the Civil Defense in case of natural disasters.

Spanish Communist Party activist, Jose Luis Centella was granted on Thursday in Havana the Friendship Medal in recognition of his permanent solidarity with Cuba.

Sugar mills in the province of Ciego de Ávila are redoubling their efforts in the final stretch of the harvest and have already produced 181 thousand tons despite the drought.

Although some municipalities report accumulated rains higher than the historical average to date, the reservoirs of this eastern province continue to descend and accumulate less than a third of the capacity for which they were conceived.

The attendance of more than 112,800 people to the Ernesto Guevara Sculpture Complex, in the first quarter of the year, about 2,100 more regarding the same stage of the previous year, shows the growing interest in the figure of Che.

Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla held official talks on Wednesday in Lisbon with Portugal's Minister of Foreign Business, Augusto Santos Silva.

Significant rain has been registered in the last 24 hours in the province of Santiago de Cuba's southern area, but did not benefit the 11 reservoirs that are currently at 37.7 percent of its total capacity.

Austrian cyclist registered in the Guinness World Records Book, Jacob Jurl began on Wednesday in the extreme eastern part of the island a tour across the country to protest against the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the US against Cuba over a half a century ago.

A storm with sustained winds of 84 kilometers per hour with gusts up to 134 hit the Cuban eastern city of Las Tunas wreaking havoc in the buildings, trees and electrical grid.

Havana has a development project that includes the repair of 40 parks each month, Juan Carlos Martínez Bueno, director of Communal Services.

Vladimir Ilich Lenin Hospital in the province of Holguin will extend its services to the population in 2017 with the installation of new medical equipment that will benefit oncology, neonatology and obstetrics patients, among other specialties.

The Council of the Provincial Administration in Santiago de Cuba recently approved an Environmental Strategy, which includes all necessary actions to be taken until 2020, to mitigate the impacts of climate change on the environment.

Specialists and workers of the Alturas de Banao Ecological Reserve, located 20 kilometers south of this Santi Spiritus city, saved from extinction the Tabernaemontana apoda, an endemic specie of the province of Sancti Spíritus and one of the five most threatened in Cuba.

Raul Roa, known as the "Foreign Minister of Dignity", was honored on Tuesday in Havana on the 110th anniversary of his birth.

An earthquake measuring 3.9 on the Richter scale shook Cuba's southeastern municipalities of Caimanera in Guantanamo and Santiago de Cuba provinces on Tuesday afternoon without material damages or human loses reported.