Cuba - The Comptroller General of the Republic of Cuba, Gladys Bejerano Portela, a vice president of the Council of State, signed the Book of Condolence opened at the Embassy of the Italy this Tuesday, August 30, following the devastating earthquake that struck the country on August 24, causing hundreds of deaths and significant material damages.

Varadero, Cuba - Cuba will host the 27th World Congress on Orthopedics and Traumatology and the First World Congress on External Fixation from September 26 to October 1.

Cuba-The Abel Santamaria international airport, located in the central Cuban province of Villa Clara, is ready to receive the JetBlue Airbus A-320 tomorrow, the first scheduled flight for the US to Cuba in more than five decades.

There are around 10 local Natural and Traditional Medicine production centers in many Cuban provinces which will be authenticated by the end of the year given their fulfilments in relation to the good pharmaceutical practices, as it was announced in Havana city by an expert in that field and published by the Granma newspaper.

Havana - US Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx will travel to Cuba tomorrow to hold a meeting with authorities in the island, Cuban Transportation Development Vice Minister Eduardo Rodriguez confirmed.

An airplane of the U.S. airline Jet Blue will arrive in Cuba on August 31, an event that will mark the reestablishment of regular flights from the U.S. to the island, with a route that had not taken place for more than half a century.