Palmiro Leon Soria Saucedo, Bolivia's ambassador to Cuba, received in this city the Friendship Medal from the hands of Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Gustavo Rodriguez, Minister of Agriculture, asserted on Tuesday in this capital that the impact of climate change on agricultural crops forced to change work methods in this sector.

Cuba will conclude in August a gas pipeline that will make it possible to recover 150 thousand cubic meters of gas, a strategic investment that impacts on saving that fuel, informed on Tuesday in this capital Alfredo Lopez, Minister of Energy and Mines.

A complex panorama impacts on the country's income and marks the behavior of the economy in the first half of the year, but with the guarantee that the basic services of the population, as it was known on Monday in the sessions of the 10 Committees of the National Assembly of the People's Power, will be protected.

The International Relations Committee of the National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP) called to increase several times over efforts and wills in the global demand for the elimination of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the U.S. on Cuba.

Cuba reiterated on Wednesday in Geneva its solidarity and support for the government and people of Ecuador in the reconstruction efforts of the country after the earthquake that hit it in April 2016.

The member of the Political Bureau of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) and Vice-president of the Council of State, Salvador Valdes Mesa, held talks on issues of common interest with the member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), Choe Ryong Hae, the Korean KCNA agency informed, according to a Prensa Latina report.

The Cuban Camerata Romeu Group and the Chicago Children's Choir shared the stage on Wednesday at Havana's San Francisco de Asis Basilica where music was the protagonist and not the language.

The Central-East Railway Company located in the province of Camaguey and which also makes up Ciego de Avila and Las Tunas are creating and action plan to attract the young people due to its aging working force.

Kim Jong-un, Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea and supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), described as historical his meeting in Pyongyang with Cuban Vice-President Salvador Valdés Mesa.

Cuba and the US state of Arkansas expressed today in this capital their interest in strengthening trade links, hampered by the permanence of the U.S. blockade against the island.

Miguel Diaz-Canel, First Vice-president of the Councils of State and Ministers, received on Monday afternoon His Excellency Mr. Augusto Ernesto Santos, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Portuguese Republic, who is on an official visit to Cuba.

The title of Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Panama, conferred to the President of the Councils of State and Ministers of the Republic of Cuba, Raul Castro, was handed over today in emotional ceremony in that center of higher studies, reported Prensa Latina.

Cuban general comptroller Gladys Bejerano said that actions aimed at fighting social and economic indiscipline, illegal behavior and corruption are not yet having the appropriate impact.

Secretary of State at Finland´s Foreign Ministry Peter Stenlund is paying a working visit to Cuba.