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The US State Department informed this Friday about the official rescission of Cuba as a State Sponsor of Terrorism. The decision was adopted by US Secretary of State, John Kerry, once the 45-day Congressional pre-notification period is expired. In December 2014, the President instructed the Secretary of State to immediately launch a review of Cuba’s designation as a State Sponsor »

Cuba and the United States are expected to formally announce the re-opening of embassies in Havana and Washington, D.C. next week, sources close to negotiations told ABC News.»

The Cuban Center for Molecular Immunology and the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in New York on Tuesday signed an agreement to export to the USA a lung cancer vaccine developed on the island.»

Panamanian social organizations denounced today that Venezuelan and Cuban counterrevolutionaries aim to use the Panamanian nation as a platform to plot against those nations during the 7th Summit of the Americas.»

The Summit of the Americas in Panama will be an opportunity to prove the challenges of the new course in the relations between Cuba and the United States, an article from The New York Times states today.»

Delegations from Cuba and the United States held an unprecedented dialogue on human rights, framed in the rapprochement process announced on December 17 by Presidents Raul Castro and Barack Obama.»

A US government delegation, headed by Ambassador Daniel Sepulveda, deputy assistant secretary of state and coordinator for International Communications and Policy Information of the United States, is in Cuba to exchange with the island’s authorities on telecommunication topics.»

The US Treasury Department (TD) announced that dozens of Cuban entities, or somehow linked to the island, will be removed from a list including people and companies whose assets are blocked by the US government.»

Venezuelan deputies attending the 132 Inter Parliamentarian Union (IPU) Assembly in Hanoi will talk on the attacks of the United States government against this country, according to the site of the National Assembly.»

The Cuban women’s judo team travelled to the United States to participate in a team tournament organized in the city of New York from Marcht 25th to 31st.»