The Japanese government announced and aid shipment to Cuba through Japan’s International Cooperation Agency to help recovery actions after the ravaging passage of Hurricane Rafael on the western section of the island.

“As a traveler, I publicly complain that the U.S. refused to grant me an entry visa because I visited Cuba”, Roman Hereter said Saturday to the Congress of the Spanish Federation of Journalists and Tourism Writers (FEPET), held in this resort city and attended by more than 40 participants from different Spanish localities.

Tropical storm Sara continues to move west, after making landfall in northeastern Honduras. Moving at just 4 kilometers per hour the storm has slowed down its speed.

Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, member of the Political Bureau and head of foreign relations, condemned the Israeli attacks against Lebanon and Syria, which have caused dozens of deaths.

A very fruitful exchange took place in Havana between Lieutenant General Alexander Viacheslavovich Kurenkov, Minister of the Russian Federation for Civil Protection, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters, and officials of the National General Staff of the Cuban Civil Defense (EMNDC by its Spanish acronym).

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez reiterated Cuba’s strong condemnation of Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza.

The World Peace Council Executive Committee condemned the US economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba and the blacklisting of the island as state sponsor of terrorism.

Former tropical depression 19th became storm Sara moving in the central-southern Caribbean Sea on Thursday.

In a post on X, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel congratulated Surangel Whipps Jr, president of Palau, on the occasion of his re-election and reasserted to him the commitment to keep strengthening the links of friendship and cooperation between the two nations.

The 60th anniversary of Russia’s Cuba Friendship Society (RCFS), formerly the Soviet-Cuban Friendship Society, will be celebrated today in Moscow by its leaders and top officials of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP).

In a post on X, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel wished former Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador a happy 71st birthday, calling him dear brother and assuring that Cuba will never forget his generous support in hard times.

In a post on X, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla reiterated the condemnation of Israel's genocide against the Palestinians and the restrictions imposed on the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, where 43,665 people have been killed and 103,076 wounded, most of them women and children.

 The damages caused by Hurricane Rafael in the province of Guantanamo led the National Cuba-Italy Friendship Association and Timbalaye, international promoter of Cuban culture, to help the recovery effort with a donation of 5,000 euros.

A meeting of the Executive Committee of the World Peace Council (WPC) held in Katmandu, Nepal and attended by Fernando González, president of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), condemned the U.S. blockade of Cuba and the inclusion of the island in the list of state sponsors of terrorism.