A report by agencies of the United Nations Organization registers Cuba as the country with the lowest prevalence of low birth weight (5.3%) in the region, Granma newspaper reported.

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Crews from the Ministry of Construction (MICONS) of Cuba started building 59 solar power plants throughout the country, according to sources from that entity.

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Cuba begins production of a vaccine against pig plague

The Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Center in the province of Camaguey has begun the production of a vaccine against the classic pig plague, disease that affect raising of pork in Cuba.

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The eastern province of Santiago de Cuba has received modern agricultural machinery benefiting the bean cultivation which is one of the main priorities of the food production in the country.

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Medical graduate Felierix Castro said on Monday in Sancti Spiritus that the US brain drain policy took many friends away from him when recalling that some medical students of his generation were seduced for the Medical Parole Program.

Even when the US-Cuba normalization of relations is supposedly gaining momentum, Washington keeps punishing US and foreign entities for having violated the regulations established by the nearly-60-year US economic, commercial and financial blockade of the island.

The earth shook under the feet of Cubans in the eastern part of the island overnight Tuesday in what some described as a strong tremor, a 5.5 magnitude quake in the Richter scale, which left no human victims or property damage.

Cuban and US officials held the fourth bilateral exchange on human trafficking on January 12-13 in Washington DC, the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs website published.

Some 614 433 visitors arrived in Cuba from USA in 2016, representing a 34 percent increase when compared to the previous year, the fact that Americans are still unable to do tourism on Cuba because of the blockade.