18th Cigar Festival expected to pull in US visitors to Cuba
The trade fair is expected to attract more U.S. buyers and aficionados than ever before, since Washington has relaxed travel and trade restrictions as part of a year-long bilateral push to normalize...
View ArticleCuban Cigar Festival Sale Fetches Close to US$1 million
The annual festival, dedicated to the Habanos brand this year, has collected a total of 952,500 U.S. dollars for seven humidors, furniture to keep cigars at optimum condition. The collected money will...
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HAVANA — The European Union and Cuba signed an agreement on Friday to normalize relations 13 years after the unilateral suspension of ties by the EU. The signing of the agreement meant a breakthrough...
View ArticleCuba has received 1 million tourists in 2016
The Caribbean island witnessed an increase in the number of tourists from the United States, Germany, France, Italy and Argentina, the minister said in a statement. It attributed the impressive figure...
View ArticleWorld Series Boxing: Cuba beats turkey 5-0
Even though the Caribbean side only had two well known fighters, the team put on an excellent show in Havana’s Sports City. With this victory, the team now leads Group A in the tournament with 10...
View ArticleCuba and US Company agree on direct telephone traffic pact
Cuba’s state telecommunications company Etecsa signed the interconnection accord with New York-based Verizon Partner Solutions, a division of Verizon Communications Inc, the report said. The deal paves...
View ArticleRolling stones concert generates high anticipation in Cuba
Tim Cole, British ambassador in Cuba, said that he was “very proud that the Rolling Stones are coming to play to Cuba…I am as excited as anyone that they are coming to play here.” For young Cubans,...
View ArticleCuba-US relations cemented by Obama’s visit
U.S. President Barack Obama will travel to Cuba next week to conduct a historic visit to the island nation, in culmination of development of relations between Cuba and the United States in more than 50...
View ArticleMarch 21 world news summary at 0030 GMT
HAVANA — U.S. President Barack Obama arrived on Sunday in Cuba, to start a historic visit to the island nation, the first in 88 years. The plane touched down at 4:19 p.m. local time at Jose Marti...
View ArticleCubans nurses hopes for respect in truce after years of enmity
By Noemi Galban For engineer Arturo Gonzalez, 62, U.S. President Barack Obama’s historic visit to Cuba was one of the most important events in his life. He said his country has suffered harsh “American...
View ArticleAverage Cuban’s saw little hope in Obama’s visit
by Noemi Galban U.S. President Barack Obama’s historic three-day trip to Cuba earlier this week fell short of expectations of average Cubans, according to man-on-the-street interviews here. Obama’s...
View ArticleCuban cabaret stars stay relevant in whilst in their 70s
Twelve years after being dismissed from the legendary open-air nightspot Club Tropicana, Herrera is the star of a new show performed by a cast of veterans just like her. “It can never be the same. The...
View ArticleUS cruise ship that travel to Cuba in half a century docked in Havana
A crowd of onlookers waved Cuban and American flags and filmed with their cell phones as the Adonia, a Carnival cruise liner, sailed into port in Havana after setting off Sunday from Miami, the heart...
View ArticleRobert de Niro in Cuba for a visit
De Niro “is now a fan of Cuban cuisine, which he discovered today on a visit to the island,” the news website Cuba Debate reported. The restaurant apparently boasted of hosting the “Goodfellas” actor...
View ArticleRaul Castro and Cuba’s Socialist System
On Friday, June 3, Cuban President Raul Castro will turn 85 years old. Yet he remains fully immersed in the project of reforming the island’s economy while never veering from the Socialist model laid...
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KHARTOUM — Rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM)/northern sector on Friday claimed to have killed 25 government soldiers in battles that took place between its troops and the Sudanese army in...
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HAVANA — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Saturday demanded respect for his nation’ s sovereignty and warned Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS) Luis Almagro of the...
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LONDON — First counting venue Gibraltar declared its result as 19,322 voted to stay in and 823 voted to leave, Gibraltar local authority said late Thursday as the counting is under way across Britain...
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LISBON — Portuguese authorities have charged Portuguese fertilizer company Adubos de Portugal and U.S industrial company General Electric for causing the outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in 2014,...
View ArticleCuba to purchase from Russia 75 diesel locomotives
Russia’s Sinara Transport Machines will supply 75 diesel TGM-8 and TGM-4 locomotives between 2017 and 2021. The contract also contains provisions for the modernization of a locomotive machine shop in...
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