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A major blackout felt across much of Cuba on Sunday night was due to human error, which has led to an intense investigation by law enforcement authorities of the island.

“The health of US citizen Alan Gross remains normal and he regularly engages in intense physical exercises,” reported Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement issued on Wednesday.

The US Supreme Court refused to hear Florida’s controversial “Travel Act,” which since 2006 has prohibited schools and public universities in that state from using state money for travel to countries considered terrorists, including Cuba.

Tropical Storm Nadine poses no threat to Cuba, shows the National Hurricane Center projections on Thursday morning.

Weather conditions for the upcoming period will be pleasant. The days will be sunny, becoming partly cloudy in the evenings and producing some isolated showers – most likely starting on Monday, September 17.

Cuba called on Tuesday for complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, during the third day of the Board of Governors meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency, being held in Vienna.

Daniel Garcia, a farmer living on the edge of the western Cuban province of Pinar del Rio, produces homemade “biogas”(gas produced by breakdown of organic matter in the absence of oxygen) that he stores in plastic bags.