More than 17,000 troops of the Armed Forces and Police will ensure Pope Francis visit to Bolivia, announced the Government Minister, Carlos Romero.»

Six people were killed by an earthquake of 6.5 magnitude on the Richter scale in the city of Hotan, Autonomous Region of Uygur Xinjiang, in northwest China.»

US President Barack Obama today asked Congress to lift the unilateral sanctions imposed against Cuba for over half a century, because that policy failed and resulted counterproductive for the United States.»

  The Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, Marcelino Medina, today received a letter from the United States President, Barack Obama, addressed to his peer Raul Castro. The letter was delivered at the headquarters of the Foreign Ministry by the head of the Interests Section of the United States in Havana, Jeffrey DeLaurentis. Growing Interest in Cooperation Between Cuba »

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) announced in Washington that Cuba has become the first country in the world to eliminate the transmission of HIV / AIDS and syphilis from mother to baby.»

A meeting at the University of Limpopo, northern South African province, was the last activity in this country of the five Cubans who were held in U.S. prisons for fighting terrorism.»

Under the slogan “It’s time now to end the Blockade!,” the 26th Pastors for Peace Caravan was presented in the United States, Cubasi website says.»

Cuban President Raul Castro welcomed on Saturday the member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea and Secretary of International Relations, Kang Sok Su.»

Internal elections of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) began on Sunday throughout the country with the traditional reveille and the call for general participation.»

Cuban First Vice President Miguel Diaz-Canel met the speaker of the Mexican Senate, Miguel Barbosa, who headed the delegation to the two-day Cuba-Mexico Interparliamentary Meeting held in Havana.»