Tropical storm Erika is expected to approach the Leeward Islands or Northern Lesser Antilles Wednesday night or early on Thursday as it is moving westward as fast as 20 miles per hour, 31 kilometers per hour, though its speed is to lower over the next 48 hours.

The Federation of Cuban Women, FMC, will commemorate its 55 th anniversary on August 23rd founded by the historic leader of the Revolution Fidel Castro as a renovated and strengthened organization that extols its main values: defense of the Revolution and women's equality.

Cuban President Raul Castro sent warm congratulations to the Cuban Women´s Federation on its 55 anniversary, an organization set up on August 23rd 1960 by Fidel Castro and Vilma Espin.

The Cuban Meteorology Institute issued at 11 AM this Thursday the Tropical Hurricane Advisory 4 on Hurricane Danny.

The US administration is working with Havana to find accord before the year´s end allowing US citizens to travel to Cuba on commercial flights, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Over one hundred photos both black and white and color recalling the last 65 years of Cuban history are part of an exhibit opened till September 7 at the Southampton Arts Center in New York.

The severe drought affecting Cuban aquifers and reservoirs given the extreme lack of rainfalls has led authorities to call for water-saving measures and other distribution strategies to cushion the tense situation.

A recent report by the Center for Studies on the Youth revealed the trends of that population sector of Cuban society as to demographic, socio-cultural, labor and other factors between 2008 and 2012.

The President of the councils of State and Ministers, Army General Raul Castro, met on Monday afternoon with Havana's Archbishop, Cardinal Jaime Ortega.

Army General Raul Castro, President of the councils of State and Ministers, received Nicolas Maduro, President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

After a successful day, during which he officially reopened the embassy of his country and was able to verify that civilized coexistence between the United States and Cuba is possible, Secretary of State John Kerry returned to Washington on Friday night.

U.S. secretary of State John Kerry took a little stroll on Friday around Old Havana, accompanied by City Historian Eusebio Leal, the Prensa Latina (PL) news agency reported.

We are starting taking a road that is very promising, said Cardinal Jaime Ortega, top Cuban catholic church figure, after the flag-raising ceremony at the US embassy in Havana.

Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs Bruno Rodriguez received this morning the US Secretary of State John Kerry.

the relations between Cuba and the United States are going through a historical moment after US Secretary of State John Kerry officially inaugurated this morning his country´s embassy in Havana.