The first two qualifying rounds of the third World Baseball Classic-2013 will begin next Thursday in the U.S. city of Jupiter and Regensburg in Germany, organizers confirmed today.»

Considered one of the most important Cuban landscape painters, Mario Garcia Portela will present a retrospective on the occasion of an event that will bring together, in the historical center of the capital, prominent creators of this artistic expression.»

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has taken a tour of Catia, a district in the populous parish of Sucre, in Caracas, where he was acclaimed by tens of thousands of followers.»

Cuba’s First Vice President Jose Ramon Machado Ventura, met on Monday with the visiting head of the Pakistani Senate, Syed Hussain Bohkari Nayyer, who arrived last Thursday in Havana on an official visit.»

The People’s Provincial Court of Granma, eastern province of the island, set for October 5 the public trial for Spanish Angel Francisco Carromero, involved in an accident that killed two people.»

In an exclusive interview to Escambray newspaper and Radio Sancti Spiritus, American actor Danny Glover admits his admiration for the Cuban Revolution, and the human and ethic greatness of The Cuban Five.»

Thousands of people, mostly young people of the island’s student centers, make possible in Sancti Spiritus, the fourth version of the Population and Housing Census during the Cuban Revolution period, which began throughout the country last Saturday.»

UN Development Program resident representative in Cuba Barbara Pesce stressed in Havana the efforts made by Cuba aimed at protecting the ozone layer.»

Havana and Washington simultaneously host today a video conference, to analyze recent actions in favor of five Cuban antiterrorist fighters convicted in the United States.»

Over 800 candidates to be members (delegates) of the Municipal Assemblies of the People’s Power have been already nominated in Sancti Spiritus, central Cuba.»