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Heavy rains were reported over the past 24 hours in nearly the entire eastern province of Holguin. The rains are welcomed, as they will greatly benefit local agriculture

Because there are human cases associated with an animal influenza virus, and because of the geographical spread of multiple community outbreaks, plus the somewhat unusual age groups affected, these events are of high concern.

The Cork Palm was declared National Monument in 1989. Today it can be found at Soroa Orchid Garden and at the local botanical garden.

More than 180,000 people of thoseevacuated in the central province of Camaguey before the threat of hurricane Paloma returned home after a recovery stage was declared in the areas hit by the storms.

Cuban Civil Defense General Staff decided on Sunday to decree the recovery stage in Santa Cruz del Sur, Najasa and Guaimaro municipalities in eastern Camaguey province, hit by Hurricane Paloma yesterday.

Major Hurricane Paloma moved from Cayman Brac overnight Friday night/Saturday morning and made landfall in Southeast Cuba at 6:20 p.m. EST Saturday evening as a Category 3 Hurricane near Santa Cruz Del Sur.

Hurricane Paloma, packing winds of 220 kilometers (140 miles) an hour, rolled over the Cayman Islands Saturday and prepared to slam into the coast of Cuba.

Late-season Hurricane Paloma intensified into a "dangerous" Category Three storm Friday as it lashed the Cayman Islands and set a collision course with Cuba, forecasters said.

Hurricane Paloma gathered strength on Friday as it moved on a collision course with the Cayman islands and Cuba, with Havana still reeling from billion dollars in losses this storm season.

Cuba and Congo expanded bilateral cooperation by signing a protocol, in Havana, that includes the fight against Malaria in the African country.

The state-owned Cuban oil company says the country may have more than 20bn barrels of oil in its offshore fields - more than double the previous estimate.

The Guanahacabibes peninsula, one of Cuba's six biosphere reserves, is safe despite havoc caused by hurricanes Gustav and Ike.

Cubans respond Friday to a call made by the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR)'s National Secretariat with a massive voluntary work campaign recover after two hurricanes.

Hurricane Ike weakened to a Category 2 storm after making landfall in northeastern Cuba, the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami reported Monday.

Hurricane Ike has reach the shores of Cuba during the midnight from Sunday to Monday. Authorities in the island report that high winds and heavy rain hit the east of the island, flooding low level areas and causing rivers to burst their banks. Forecasts predicts that Ike will travel across Cuba from east to west and will leave in a point between Matanzas and Havana.