Two buildings belonging to the Health Department in the South African province of Limpopo will have the names of the leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro and the legendary guerrilla Ernesto Che Guevara.

Roberto Morales Ojeda, Cuban Minister of Public Health, travelled to the city of Geneva to participate in the 69th edition of the World Health Assembly.

The National Assembly of the Republic of Ecuador thanked the Henry Reeve Contingent and the Cuban Medical Brigade for the immediate help they gave after the earthquake that hit that South American nation last April 16.

Cuban First Vice-President Miguel Diaz-Canel arrived in Minsk for an official visit that starts today to the Republic of Belarus

Evo Morales, president of the Pluri-national State of Bolivia, returned home today after completing a busy work schedule on the island, which included receiving the Jose Marti Order, the highest award granted by the Cuban Council of State.

After the earthquake of 6.8 degrees on the Richter scale that shook Ecuador again on Wednesday, the Cuban workers in the South American nation continued their work normally.

Vyacheslav M. Lebedev, President of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, expressed on Tuesday in this capital his interest in holding exchanges with Cuban colleagues at the People's Supreme Court (TSP).

Following last week´s talks on ways to fight and prevent money laundry, Cuba and the United States hold on Monday the third session of their bilateral commission in an effort to keep expanding areas of cooperation down the road towards the normalization of bilateral relations.

Cuba and the Bahamas agreed on a group of actions to expand bilateral exchanges in culture and sports, reported a diplomatic source.

The Government of the Republic of Cuba issued a statement on the impeachment of legally elected President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff, which ACN now reproduces:

Jose Manuel Garcia Margallo y Marfil, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of the Kingdom of Spain, will pay an official visit to Cuba from May 13th through the 16th, the Cubaminrex Web site reported.

Russian Foreign Minister Serguei Lavrov asserted during a meeting with six Cuban heroes at the headquarters of that Ministry in Moscow that the U.S. economic blockade against Cuba "does not lead anywhere," Prensa Latina reported.

Cuba will not stop fighting for the recognition of the Palestinian state and its full right to development, asserted on Monday in this capital Kenia Serrano, president of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP).

Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez is paying an official visit to Germany on Monday, aimed at deepening bilateral relations in different sectors.