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Cuban First Vice President Miguel Diaz-Canel presides over his country’s delegation that attended Pope Francis’s enthronement ceremony at the Vatican.»

INFORMATICA 2013 opened this Monday in Havana,  with the attendance of experts from some 30 countries.»

At the expanded Council of Ministers meeting held in Havana, Cuban President Raul Castro called for continuing to work with discipline and efficiency to achieve sustainable development, according to reports published by national press today.»

Three high-technology early warning system stations have been recently installed at  Zaza River basin, in Sancti Spiritus, in order to prevent heavy rain and flood threats.»

Cuban Baseball mourns the death of the pitcher Yadier Pedroso Gonzalez, who was part of the national team to the III World Classic, and died here victim of a traffic accident the night of March 16.»

Cuba’s President Raul Castro sent a message to Xi Jinping, who was elected President of the Republic of China.»

Cuba President Raul Castro congratulated Pope Francis for his election as Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church.»

The Catholic Church elected today as new Pope, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Francis I, Archbishop of Buenos Aires and President of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America.»

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elías Jaua will attend here today a special session of the UN General Assembly and an ecumenical service in memory of late President Hugo Chavez.»

25 endemic Cuban butterflies drawn by Antonio Guerrero, one of the five anti-terrorist fighters who have been unjustly held in the United States since 1998, will go on display in the cities of San Francisco, California, and New York.»