An official from the Cuban Foreign Ministry described as a step forward four amendments approved by the Appropriations Committee of the US Senate that would allow the increase of agricultural trade and that citizens of that country to freely travel to Cuba.

The president of the Cuban National Assembly of People´s Power (Parliament), Esteban Lazo, called the 7th Session of the legislative body to open July 8.

Salvador Valdes Mesa, member of the Politbureau of Cuba´s Communist Party is paying a visit to Viet Nam aimed at further strengthening bilateral friendly and cooperation relations.

The 2nd International Convention on Cuban Industry (Cubaindustria-2016) scheduled for June 20th to the 24th will commemorate half a century permanence at the United Nations for the Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in Cuba.

Cuba lost to Turkey in the quarterfinals of the FIBA women's qualifying tournament, event which grants five tickets to Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games.

Cuba, Canada and the U.S. already secured their prizes at the 66th Ernest Hemingway International Billfish Tournament, underway in Havana with the participation of over 90 boats from nine countries.

The 50th birthday of the Puerto Rican mission in Cuba will be marked June 29 at the Cuban Friendship Institute.

Representatives of the new generation of Cubans will reenact the historic route of Jose Marti to Dos Rios from July 26th to August 13th

Army General Raul Castro, President of the councils of State and Ministers, sent on Tuesday a message of congratulations to the combatants of Cuba's Western Army, reported the Granma daily.

The province of Pinar del Rio, with the largest forest area in the country has increased the production of vegetable coal in compliance with the demand of the national and foreign market.

Cuba´s Labor and Social Security Minister, Margarita Gonzalez Fernandez highlighted on Monday in Havana during the plenary session of the International Workers Conference that the updating of the island´s economic model´s objective is constructing a prosperous, sustainable and irreversible socialism for all.

The documents that came out of the 7th Cuban Communist Party Congress will be discussed among the population across the country until September 20th which marks a very important moment in the nation's future requiring the effort and commitment of millions of people.

President Raul Castro send his US counterpart Barack Obama a message of condolences following the attack on club in the Florida city of Orlando, which claimed significant number of human lives.

Cuban President Raul Castro sent his Kazakh counterpart Nursultan Nazarbaev a letter of condolences for the victims of recent terrorist attacks perpetrated in Aktobe city, which killed four civilians and three troops.

Salvador Valdes Mesa, Vice-President of the Cuban Council of State, received Friday afternoon the Ethiopian Foreign Minister Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who is in Cuba on an official visit