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Cuba rallied from a 1-4 deficit to defeat the Netherlands 6-5 on Wednesday afternoon at Intercontinental Stadium in Taichung.»

Lourdes Gourriel Jr. will defend the left field and Alfredo Despaigne will be the designed hitter of the Cuban baseball team in its match against Canada on the Premier 12 on November 10, said the managering corp of the team Monday.»

Cuban President Raul Castro offered his sincere condolences to his Russian peer Vladimir Putin for the loss of human lives, caused by the catastrophe of the plane Air Bus 321.»

Cuban Council of Minister Vice President Ricardo Cabrisas, received today Tatarstans Prime Minister, Ildar Shafkatovich Jalikov, who is on a working visit to the Caribbean island.»

In the presence of businessmen from more than 70 countries, the 33rd Havana International Fair, Fihav 2015, the most important annual trade event in Cuba, begins today.»

U.S. nephrologists will give as of today a series of lectures at the “Professor Abelardo Buch Lopez” Nephrology Institute, in Havana, Granma newspaper reported.»

Trinidad’s Benito Ortiz Borrell Gallery hosts these days the XXI Rafael Zerquera Rodríguez Salon, with works of more than fifty local artisans who may be members or not of the Cuban Association of Artisans and Artists (Acaa).»

The visit to Cuba of Italian Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi, is today another step in the strengthening of cooperation ties between both nations.»

Cuba enjoyed a landslide victory in the United Nations when 191 out of 193 member states voted in favor of a resolution against the US blockade of Cuba that has lasted over 50 years.»

A 7.7-magnitude earthquake rattled regions in Afghanistan and Pakistan, as well as northern India and parts of the capital New Delhi, whose effects have left at least 100 dead, Reuters reports.»