Cuba

HAVANA, Dec 30 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) — Cuba’s Science, Technology and Environment Ministry (CITMA) announced that Cuba and Chinese scientific institutions will be conducting 10 new joint projects.

The entities will be focusing on a great number of fields, including those related to food, nanotechnology and nanosciences, automation, health and climate variability, among others.

HAVANA, Dec 21 (NNN-ACN) — During the Second Ordinary Session of Parliament and with Army General Raúl Castro Ruz and President Miguel Díaz-Canel present, Alejandro Gil Fernandez, Cuba’s deputy prime minister and Minister of Economy and Planning, remarked that the 3% GDP growth for 2023 proved to be an impossible target due to the lack of foreign currency and fuel.

HAVANA (AP) — A building in the historic center of Havana that housed 13 families partially collapsed, leaving three people dead and at least two injured, Cuban authorities said Wednesday.

Authorities in Havana said that among the three fatalities were one resident and two firefighters who got trapped in the building when they were helping evacuate people.

A part of the three-story building collapsed Tuesday’s night, and other sections crumbled early Wednesday.

HAVANA, Sept 14 (NNN-ACN) — The Cuban Foreign Ministry reported that China and Seychelles will have high-level representatives in the G77+China Summit, to be held in this city on Sept 15-16, organized by Cuba in its capacity as president pro tempore of the group on the theme “Current development challenges: the role of science, technology and innovation”.

HAVANA, Sept 13 (NNN-XINHUA) — Delegations from different countries arrived in Havana on Tuesday for the upcoming Group of 77 and China Summit (G77+China Summit) to be held on Sept 15-16.

The G77+China Summit is expected to gather heads of state and high-level government officials from around the world, as well as receive more than 100 delegations of the bloc’s member countries and representatives of international organizations.

HAVANA (AP) — Cuban authorities have arrested 17 people in connection with what they described as a network to recruit Cuban nationals to fight for Russia in Ukraine.

The head of criminal investigations for Cuba’s Interior Ministry, César Rodríguez, said late Thursday on state media that at least three of the 17 arrested are part of recruitment efforts inside the island country.

HAVANA, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Cuba has uncovered a human trafficking ring that coerced its citizens to fight for Russia in the war in Ukraine, its foreign ministry said, adding that Cuban authorities were working to "neutralize and dismantle" the network.

The statement from Cuba's foreign ministry late on Monday gave few details, but noted the trafficking ring was operating both within the Caribbean island nation, thousands of miles from Moscow, and in Russia.

HAVANA, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- Brazilian tourist Joao Oliveira drinks a bottle of water in Havana's Old Quarter to keep hydrated amid the blistering temperatures in the Caribbean.

The 32-year-old told Xinhua that traveling to Cuba had been a thrilling experience since he had learned a lot about the history and culture of the island nation.

"Cuban and Brazilian people have many things in common," he said. "People here are friendly. I am thinking of returning next summer."

HAVANA, Aug 11 (NNN-ACN) — Roberto Morales Ojeda, secretary of organization of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, and Hiroshige Seko, secretary-general of the Liberal Democratic Party of the House of Councillors of Japan, called for closer ties of friendship between their countries.

HAVANA, August 10. /TASS/: At least six people have been detained as part of an investigation into the assassination of Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, the South American country’s Prosecutor General’s Office said in a statement on X (formerly Twitter).

"As of now, six people were detained during raids in the Conocoto and San Bartolo [neighborhoods] of [the capital] Quito as part of an investigation into the assassination of Fernando Villavicencio," the statement reads.