Cuban Arlenis Sierra, bronze medalist in the points race event of this year´s track world championship and member of the UCI World Cycling Centre in Switzerland, won the 27th edition of the Women´s Tour de Bretagne, in France.

One year after Washington and Havana reestablished diplomatic relations, high level visits from the two sides are considered to contribute to the normalization of bilateral links broken over 50 years ago.

Washington keeps its blockade on Cuba because they do not want Americans to see how good is to come here, said US Reverend Thomas Smith in Havana.

The members of the 27th US-Cuba Friendshipment Caravan paid tribute on Tuesday in Havana to its founder Reverend Lucius Walker at the Jose Mari Anti-Imperialist Tribunal.

HAVANA, Cuba, Jul 15 (acn) Esteban Lazo, President of the National Assembly of the People's Power, received Igor Crnadak, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the context of his official visit to Cuba.

Cuba´s First Vice-president Miguel Diaz-Canel is heading the island´s delegation to celebrations in Nicaragua for the 37th anniversary of the triumph of the Sandinista Revolution to take place July 19 in the capital Managua.

The 27th Pastors for Peace Friendshipment Caravan, made up of 41 US, European and Mexican activists, is on its way to Cuba.

While anti-Cuban legislators seek in the House of Representatives of the U.S. Congress to tighten the blockade against Cuba, government representatives from both countries talked in this capital on regulatory issues.

The implementation of fiber optic transmission in railroads in Cuba, which will favor an improvement in the communications system of that means of transport, is expected to culminate this year up to the province of Camagüey, and subsequently spread to Santiago de Cuba.

The Cuban Council of State, at the suggestion of its President, agreed to free Marino Murillo from the post of Minister of Planning and the Economy and appoint the Vice-president of the Council of Ministers, Ricardo Cabrisas, in his place, according to an official note released on Wednesday.

Faced with difficulties and threats there is no room for improvisation and much less defeatism, said Army General Raul Castro, First Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) and President of the councils of State and Ministers, adding that the Cuban people will once again rise to difficulties.

Marino Murillo, a member of the Politburo and Vice-president of the Council of Ministers, said on Friday that despite the financial constraints experienced by the country, the strategic programs and services to the population will be supported.

The Vice-president of the Council of State, Gladys Bejerano, signed on Thursday morning, on behalf of the Cuban government, the Book of Condolences opened at the Embassy of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago to Havana to pay posthumous tribute to Patrick Manning, former Prime Minister of that nation, who died recently.

First Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party, President Raul Castro, presided over the Second Plenary of the Central Committee held on Thursday afternoon to discuss the current situation of the Cuban economy.

The Cuban Parliament today adopted an update of the Social and Economic Guidelines for the country´s development up to 2021.