Barely a few hours after the announcement of the Cuban President Raul Castro of the death of Revolution leader Fidel Castro, tens of world leaders have sent their condolences.

The Republican candidate Donald Trump received 276 electoral votes to upset Democrat Hillary Clinton in the race for the presidency of the United States.

Daniel Ortega, the favorite candidate in Nicaragua´s Sunday presidential elections, won 71.3 percent of the votes and made it to his first term as President of the Central American nation.

With the motivation of becoming Cuba´s fourth largest trading partner globally, with an exchange of more than 700 million dollars, Canada celebrated its National Day on the second day of the 34th International Fair of Havana (FIHAV 2016 by its Spanish acronym).

During the 34th International Fair of Havana (FIHAV by its Spanish acronym), Cuba and Russia bet in this city for strengthening and consolidating their economic and trade links with the concretion of new cooperation agreements.

The representatives of the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC-EP) guerrillas issued a joint communiqué Friday in Havana on their talks to achieve a new peace accord that considers the proposals of the Colombian people after a first accord was not approved in a national plebiscite.

The 25th Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State and Government will open sessions Saturday in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia and it is expected to issue a declaration in support of the Colombian peace process.

The ambassador of the United States at the United Nations, Samantha Power, announced that her country would abstain in the voting against the resolution that demands to put an end to the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed on Cuba by the United States for over 59 years now.

The United States announced it will abstain in the voting against the resolution presented by Cuba – Need to put an end to the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed on Cuba by the United States-, which in 24 occasions has been endorsed at the United Nations by most of the international community.

Cuban Foreign Minister (FM) Bruno Rodriguez presents at the United Nations General Assembly the report Need to put an end to the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed on Cuba by the United States of America, accompanying resolution 70/5.

United Nations agencies submitted a report to the Gener al Assembly on the damage inflicted by the US economic, financial and commercial blockade of Cuba as the international community readies to vote the island´s resolution today demanding the lifting of the unilateral and extraterritorial US policy.

When there are only three months left for the end of his term of office, Barack Obama issued a presidential guideline with which he hopes to leave his successor a guide for the continuity of bilateral relations with Cuba.

Members of the Cuban health brigade that offers its services in Bolivia paid homage to Cuban-Argentinean guerilla commander Ernesto Che Guevara in La Higuera, the place where he was assassinated 49 years ago on this date.

The Institute of Meteorology reported that in the early hours of Thursday Hurricane Matthew continued to move northwest at about 19 kilometers per hour, battering central Bahamas.