Members of parliamentary friendship groups of the National Assembly of People's Power of Cuba and the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus held their first virtual meeting.

A delegation of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union of Vietnam (HCYU) began today a working visit to Cuba, with the laying of a wreath at the monument of the founding father of that Asian nation, Ho Chi Minh, in the park that bears his name in Havana.

 Elba Rosa Perez, Cuban minister of science, technology and environment ( CITMA by its Spanish acronym), began today a visit to Argentina to attend the summit of heads of that sector of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), to be held on Oct. 19.

Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla praised today the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations with Algeria.

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba sent a congratulatory message to the Chinese Communists on the occasion of the 20th Congress of their organization.

The permanent rejection of the US economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba is high on the agenda of the 16th Solidarity-with-Cuba Encounter underway in the Spanish city of Valencia.

The Cuban Embassy in Japan thanked members of Japanese solidarity groups and businessmen for their donation of 2,938,000 yen (20,262 dollars) as contribution to the recovery effort after the large fire that broke out in the industrial zone of the province of Matanzas.

The Institute of Meteorology reports today in its Tropical Cyclone Advisory No. 2 that at six o'clock this morning the center of the storm Karl was about 260 kilometers east of Tuxpan, Mexico.

A Cuban delegation, headed by Ana Teresita Gonzalez Fraga, first deputy minister of foreign trade and investment ( MINCEX by its Spanish acronym), participated in the closing ceremony of the 11th Council of Economic Complementation of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People's Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP).

Tropical storm Julia is expected to reach Nicaraguan coasts this weekend as it travels fast on the southern Caribbean Sea.

The director of International Relations at Cuba’s Higher Education Ministry, Maria Victoria Villavicencio, met Friday afternoon with Xavier Jonathan Billingsley, a diplomat from the Public Affairs Office at the US Embassy in Havana, who paid a courtesy visit.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel expressed his solidarity with the Venezuelan people and government after heavy rains and floods caused deaths and huge material damage over the past days.

Members of the Cuban mission in France delivered today a suitcase of toys for children affected by hurricane Ian in the province of Pinar del Rio(westernmost region), the most affected.

Manuel Marrero Cruz, Cuban prime minister, concluded today the official visit to the Kingdom of Cambodia, the last stop on his tour of Asia that began last September 28.