Cuban President Raul Castro received this Thursday afternoon Uruguay´s Vice-President-elect Raúl Fernando Sendic Rodríguez who is in Cuba on an official visit.

At just few days to represent Cuba in the Caribbean Series, the monarch Pinar del Río gave a blow of authority on Cuban baseball championship to complete the sweep over the leader Matanzas with a 7-3 win.

Cuba and the United States held the second day of talks with a meeting focused on the restoration of diplomatic relations, the opening of embassies, and other issues of bilateral interest.

Yesterday, January 18 at 7.00 a.m., Cuban time, 12.00 p.m. in Sierra Leone, the Cuban collaborator and nurse, Reinaldo Villafranca Antigua, from Los Palacios municipality in Pinar del Río province, died aged 43, after suffering from malaria with cerebral complications.

The project Street Big Bang, by the environmental street theater group TECMA, draws the attention of the inhabitants of Pinar del Rio with unusual presentations.

United States should close the prison at Guantanamo naval base, causing international contempt, and prosecute detainees in US territory, noted today an editorial of The New York Times newspaper.

The Caravan for Freedom, which annually reissues the passing of the rebels after the revolutionary triumph on January 1st, 1959, arrived Saturday in Pinar del Rio.

2014 was the warmest year on record, with global temperatures 0.68C (1.24F) above the long-term average, US government scientists have said.

Cuban counter-terrorists René González and Ramón Labañino expressed today their condemnation of the attack against the weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo, when signing the condolence book at the French Embassy in Havana.

The members of the U.S. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominees for the Oscar Awards in its edition 87, taking place on Sunday, February 22, in Hollywood.