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HAVANA - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met with Esteban Lazo Hernandez, president of the Cuban National Assembly of People's Power, in Havana on Thursday to discuss bilateral cooperation.

HAVANA - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic arrived in Havana on Thursday for a two-day official visit to Cuba, which has garnered major media attention in the country.

He will kick off the visit with a tour of a Cuban cigar factory and then meet with Esteban Lazo Hernandez, president of the National Assembly of People's Power.

HAVANA - Cuba attaches great significance to expanding its economic and commercial ties with the world, including Europe and, in particular, Serbia, says Serbian Ambassador to Havana Danilo Pantovic, noting that President Aleksandar Vucic's visit to the Caribbean country is a good opportunity for Serbia to expand economic and trade ties with it.

"We are negotiating with Varna companies to buy two cargo ships and two catamarans in order to boost bilateral trade," said Cuba's Ambassador to Bulgaria, Pedro Rodriguez, quoted by the press service of Varna Municipality. He and other guests from the island state, including Aleida Guevara March, daughter of Cuban revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara, visited the seaside town on Tuesday.

US President Donald Trump rarely gives official press conferences, but last night he decided to talk to journalists in the White House Rose Garden, the Associated Press reported.

The US has ordered 15 Cuban diplomats to leave the country. US President Donald Trump's administration will ask Cuba to reduce its diplomatic staff to Washington by 60 percent, the BBC said.

The United States is warning Americans against visiting Cuba and ordering more than half of U.S. personnel to leave the island, senior officials said Friday, in a dramatic response to what they described as “specific attacks” on diplomats.

The Foreign Ministry issued a warning for Turkish citizens traveling to regions affected by Hurricane Maria on Sept. 19. 

Maria, which has intensified to a Category 5 storm in the last 24 hours, hit Puerto Rico on Sept. 20 after battering Dominica overnight. 

The Trump administration is considering closing the recently reopened United States Embassy in Havana after 21 Americans associated with the embassy experienced a host of unexplained health problems.

Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson said during an appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday that such a closing was “under evaluation.”

The Trump administration is considering closing down the recently reopened U.S. Embassy in Havana following a string of unexplained incidents harming the health of American diplomats in Cuba, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says.