China’s President Xi Jinping received visiting Cuban first vice-president Miguel Diaz-Canel on Tuesday. The top government Cuban official is on an Asian tour that also includes Vietnam and Laos.

Cuba and the United States are expected to hold talks Tuesday and Wednesday to discuss the possibility of resuming direct mail services between the two countries after a 50-year ban, U.S. officials announced.

A Chinese-designed biomass power plant fueled with byproducts of sugar production is planned go up in Matanzas province, east of capital Havana.

Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermúdez, the First Vice President of the Councils of State and Ministers of Cuba is slated to make official visits to China, Vietnam and Laos, the official Granma newspaper said Monday.

Iran's president-elect Hassan Rouhani said Monday that his country will try to be more "transparent" in its nuclear issue as part of the new government's efforts to build a "constructive interaction" with the world.

Cuba is among 38 countries congratulated by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) for their fulfillment ahead of schedule of the goals of the UN's "Zero Hunger Challenge" program.

The national director of the Marti Program and member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, Armando Hart Dávalos, was awarded on Tuesday the title of Doctor Honoris Causa in Education by the Latin American University “José Martí” of Monterrey, Mexico.

Peace negotiations between the Colombian government and members of Colombia's largest rebel group, the FARC, will resume in Havana on Tuesday.

Nicaragua’s National Autonomous University kicked off a week-long solidarity campaign with Cuba on its campus in the capital Managua.

Cuba is building a 2.5 megawatt solar energy complex in the eastern city of Guantanamo, as the island steps up efforts towards the development of cleaner and more efficient energy sources.

Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro has met with visiting Venezuelan Parliament President Diosdado Cabello in Havana.

The excellent state of diplomatic relations and cooperation between Cuba and Belarus was confirmed during a working visit to Havana by a top-level delegation from the European country headed by Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Guryanov.

After visiting the controversial detention center in the illegal U.S. naval base of Guatanamo, eastern Cuba, a top United States official and two legislators have called for its immediate closure.

The President of Venezuela's National Assembly, Diosdado Cabello, begins today the working program of his official visit to Cuba.

Tropical storm Andrea, the first storm of the hurricane season in the Atlantic, Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, on Thursday threatened western Cuba's province of Pinar del Rio, where authorities have declared flood warnings, with heavy rains.

Cuba's President Raul Castro held talks Thursday in Havana with former Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda, who pays an official visit to the island nation.

The Minister of Youth and Culture of Jamaica Lisa Hanna is in neighboring Cuba on a working visit, aimed at strengthening cultural cooperation through the signing of a historic bilateral agreement, the Jamaica Observer said.

The Serbian Association of Friendship with Cuba expressed on Wednesday its support for the cause of the Cuban anti-terrorist fighters unfairly held in US prisons for monitoring anti-Cuba terrorist cells operating in Miami.

The Syrian army has regained control of the strategic town of Qusair on the border with Lebanon, Syrian state television said on Wednesday.

Representatives of Cuba and China signed Sunday in Havana seven agreements to boost bilateral cooperation on energy, transport, tourism and biotechnology.

The legendary African-American political activist, Angela Davis, stated that the case of the Cuban antiterrorist fighters unjustly held in U.S. federal prisons is outrageous, highlighting the need to massify the efforts for their liberation.

US experts agreed on the need for a change in the US policy towards Cuba, during the 31st Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), which wound up June 1 in Washington D.C.

Anti-capitalist demonstrators from the Blockupy movement paralyzed Germany’s financial center Friday, cutting off access to the European Central Bank (ECB) and Deutsche Bank’s headquarters.

Photo: Jens SchulzeGerman CubaSi solidarity group hold panel on Lat Am integration

Photo: Jens SchulzeGerman CubaSi solidarity group hold panel on Lat Am integration

Photo: Jens SchulzeGerman CubaSi solidarity group hold panel on Lat Am integration

US Reverend Joan Brown Campbell called on Friday, in Havana, for the release of the four Cuban anti-terrorist fighters, who are serving unfair and long prison terms in US jails, and she stressed the ongoing youth mobilization to achieve that goal.

Cuba has firmly rejected Washington’s repeated and shameful designation of Cuba as a 'state sponsor of international terrorism.'

Cuba is in preparations for the construction alongside British firm Esencia Hotels and Resorts of a USD 350-million golf resort in the renowned beach enclave of Varadero, east of Havana.

Cuba prepares for 2014 a three-day international tournament in honor of the World and Olympic champion Teofilo Stevenson, considered the best fighter in the history of amateur boxing, a sports official said here Thursday.

Cuban Leinier Dominguez achieved a draw during round six that kept him on top of the Chess Grand Prix in Thessaloniki, Greece, fourth stop of the circuit started in 2012.

The President of Uruguay, José Mujica, is slated to visit Cuba and El Salvador late July. Officials say the purpose of the visit is to strengthen Latin American integration projects.

The Fuyong Acrobatics Art Troupe from China has confirmed to participate for the third time in the XII International Circus Summer Festival, CIRCUBA 2013, on July 16-21, in Cuba, the organizers said here Friday.

Partial results from Iran’s presidential election seem to indicate that the moderate cleric Hassan Rowhani will take the presidency.