Turkish Airlines, the airline with more destinations in the world, opened its flights to Havana, where it will travel from Istanbul three times a week, operations it plans to perform on a daily basis in short term.

French airline Air Caraibes started operating yesterday in this Cuban eastern city as part of the route Paris-Santiago de Cuba-Havana, with a weekly frequency.

Based on a better guarantee of the raw material and better transportation, Sancti Spíritus´ Sergio Soto Refinery processed 72 237 tonnes of Cuban crude oil this year, the highest figure ever achieved at the plant, mainly using extractions from west of the island.

German airline Eurowings will start operating from tomorrow in Havana, which ratifies the bet of that European country for Cuba destination, stated the Cuban Tourism Ministry (MINTUR by its Spanish acronym).

Economic relations with Europe will continue to be a priority for Cuba's efforts towards an efficient, sustainable and socialist economic development, said foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez, Monday, in Brussels.

The timely delivery of the technological package and the situation with preservatives and packaging that depend on imports were discussed in the presence of Salvador Valdés Mesa, vice president of the Council of State, at the meeting of the Agricultural Business Group (GEA by its Spanish acronym) and its representatives.

The AZCUBA business group announced that 27 sugar mills joined the 2016-2017 harvest that started last month, mainly due to the availability of cane in the fields.

Nobel Economy Prize laureate (2001) and US profesor Joseph Stiglitz spoke on Tuesday in Havana on the recent world economic transformations and its consecuences for the development of the nations.

The agro-industrial company in the town of Ceballos in the province of Ciego de Avila increased its production after reducing the cycles of fruit processing in the last four years due to new equipment and technology.

Over one and a half hundred auditors from the Cuban General Comptroller´s Office in the eastern province of Guantanamo are supervising the way in which resources to clean the damage left by hurricane Matthew on personal property are being managed.

The 34th session of the Intergovernmental Commission between Cuba and Vietnam for economic and scientific-technical cooperation concluded with the signing of several legal instruments beneficial to both parties.

HAVANA, Cuba, Nov 24 (acn) According to sources from the Ministry of Tourism (MINTUR by its Spanish acronym), Cuba began its high tourist season focused on achieving a more competitive destination by the quality of its services and permanent innovation.

The growing number of international visitors to Cuba, reported at over 3.1 million by the end of October, has sparked predictions of some 4.1 million in 2017.

The Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani reiterated his willingness to consolidate and expand cooperation relations with Cuba during a meeting in the capital Doha with visiting Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez, who is on a tour of Middle East countries up to November 28.