Army General Raul Castro, President of the councils of State and Ministers, spoke on Friday in New York with his counterpart of Mozambique, Filipe Nyusi, Prensa Latina reported.

Cuban President Raul Castro has a tight working agenda today in New York City, United States, that include his attendance to plenary sessions of the UN General Assembly, as well as meetings with US and world leaders.

Cuban civil society organizations stressed in Geneva the Island´s work towards the protection and promotion of the rights of children and adolescents during a panel that ran parallel to the 30th Session of the UN Human Rights Council, in Geneva.

We are closer to achieving the peace that the Colombian people deserves and has longed for, asserted in this capital Army General Raul Castro, President of the Cuban councils of State and Ministers, during the signing ceremony of a joint communique between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People's Army (FARC-EP).

Just as Pope Francis concluded his visit to Cuba on September 22, a 2.8 tremor was reported by local seismological services in the province of Santiago de Cuba, the last leg of the Pope´s tour of the island.

The outstanding natural scenes of the Viñales Valley, in the Western Cuban province of Pinar del Rio, is the green zone picked by 160 tour-operators, travel agents and journalists taking part of the 10th International Nature Tourism Event, Turnat-2015.

Monsignor Dionisio García, Archbishop of Santiago de Cuba city, thanked Pope Francis for his pilgrimage to Eastern Cuba, presiding over the Eucharist and praying in front of the image of the Virgin of Charity, Cuban Patroness, at her Shrine.

A popular and warm reception was given on Monday by the hospitable city of El Cobre to Pope Francis, where he arrived from Holguin to continue his apostolic visit to Cuba.

Pope Francis arrived on Monday at the Antonio Maceo International Airport of the city of Santiago de Cuba, where he will conclude his first apostolic visit to the island, which began on September 19.

Cuban President Raul Castro is attending the third Mass officiated by Pope Francis in Cuba, after the ones held in Havana and Holguin, this time at the Shrine of Our Lady of Charity, in the Santiago de Cuba´s town of El Cobre,
His Holiness arrived on Monday´s afternoon to El Cobre, in the third leg of his papal visit to Cuba, that will wrap up today at noon.

Marcia Videaux was the best Cuban gymnast in the World Cup in Osijek, Croatia, by winning one silver medal in the floor event in addition to be included in three of the four finals scheduled.

President Raul Castro is now attending a mass officiated by Pope Francis in the eastern city of Holguin, second leg of his Cuba papal visit, which will conclude in Santiago de Cuba.

Argentinean President Cristina Fernandez held a brief meeting with Pope Francis after his mass in Havana and visited Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro at his residence, before returning to her country.

The First Vice-president of the councils of State and Ministers, Miguel Diaz-Canel, received Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State of the Holy See.

Army General Raul Castro, President of the councils of State and Ministers, received on Sunday afternoon His Holiness Francis, Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church and Head of State of Vatican City, who is on an apostolic visit to the island.