Havana - Cubans condemned the Helms-Burton Act on Wednesday, during the celebrations of International Workers'' Day in all squares throughout the country.

A severe local storm affected the city of Santa Clara on Sunday afternoon, and the Institute of Meteorology reported that, according to preliminary reports, in the province of Villa Clara there were strong gusts of wind, hailstorms and intense rains in some localities.

United Nations - Cuba''s Alternate Representative to the United Nations, Ana Silvia Rodriguez, has denounced the hardening of Washignton''s blockade on the island by the entry into force of extraterritorial laws.

Buenos Aires - The Union of Cuban Residents in Argentina (URCA) rejected the new measures of the US Government that seeks to suffocate Cuba by putting in force Title III of the Helms-Burton Act, written since 1996.

Geneva - Cuba denounced the hostility of the United State against the country and the imposition of new aggressive measures to tighten the blockade, at the World Trade Organization (WTO), diplomatic sources informed on Tuesday.

Gladys María Bejerano Portela, Vice President of the Council of State and Comptroller General of the Republic, arrived on Wednesday in China at the head of the high-level Cuban delegation that will attend from this Thursday until Saturday the II Forum of the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, in Beijing, under the title "Cooperation of the Belt and Road Forum, shaping a brighter shared future".