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Raul Castro arrive in New York

Army General Raul Castro Ruz, President of the Councils of State and Ministers, arrived at noon in New York city, to attend the UN Sustainable Development Summit 2015 and participate in the General Debate of the 70th session of the UN General Assembly. The Cuban delegation includes Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez, along his Deputy Abelardo Moreno, and the Cuban Permanent representative to the UN Rodolfo Reyes. Read More

Flights between the US and Cuba will be negotiated next week in Havana

US and Cuba will hold next week in Havana their first formal talks on the normalization of air service between the two countries, a move long awaited by the major US airlines. Read More

Pope Francis in the White House: "As son of immigrants, I'm happy to be a guest in this country."

In a scene that combines politics, religion and emotion, Pope Francis visit this morning for the first time the White House, where he gave his first speech in the US, and then maintained a private meeting with US President Barack Obama, in the Oval. Read More

Pope admits he never planned to meet with Cuban dissidents

Of the seven questions to the pope Francis during the flight between Santiago de Cuba and Washington five had implied the perception that he had been too lenient with the regime of the Castro brothers and, instead, he had ignored the repression against dissidents. Read More

The U.S. has not decided how to vote at the UN on embargo against Cuba

The United States pointed out on Monday that it has not yet made a decision on how to vote on the resolution that the UN General Assembly approves every year to demand the end of the embargo against Cuba, a measure that U.S. President Barack Obama has been requesting to the U.S. Congress for months. Read More

US may abstain in the UN vote against the embargo of Cuba

By the end of next October it will occur in the National Assembly of the United Nations a new vote on the Cuban resolution against the embargo imposed by the United States. Read More

US telecommunications company offers Internet connection in Cuba

Customers of US mobile company Verizon Wireless can easily connect from Cuba from next week, the US company announced on its digital portal. Read More

Arrival of Cubans to US grows 30%

More than 31,000 Cubans have come to US through the border with Mexico and the port and airport of Miami for the first 10 months of this fiscal year, an increase of 30% over the previous year. Read More

Cuba and the U.S. work together towards the normalization

Environmental protection and prevention of natural disasters, health, civil aviation, law implementation and enforcement, the struggle against drug and human trafficking, and transnational crime, are among the top issues that experts from Cuba and the United States will begin to discuss starting from coming weeks. Read More

American jazz musician Wynton Marsalis wants to perform in Cuba again

The American trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, winner of nine Grammy Awards and director of the Orchestra of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York, wants to offer concerts in Cuba, announced the official press of the island. Read More

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