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The 42nd Venecemos Brigade of US citizens has arrived in Cuba to offer their support and challenge the half-century US blockade on the island. The group of 37 members, mostly young people coming to Cuba for the first time, will be doing volunteer work and also get a firsthand look at life on the island.

Tropical Storm Bret gained in strength on Monday afternoon and is now close to hurricane status with 100 kph (62 mph) as it moves north-northeast away from the Bahamas and deeper into the Atlantic.

Cuba’s weather experts note that Tropical Storm Bret has formed off the eastern coast of Florida and northwest of the Bahamas and do not see it posing any threat to Cuba.

Peru’s president-elect Ollanta Humala heads for Havana early Tuesday, invited to visit Cuba by President Raul Castro. Hullala takes office on July 28.

The most important date on the Cuban political calendar is July 26, which commemorates the guerilla attacks on two Batista garrisons back in 1953, which sparked the 1959 Cuban revolution. This year Ciego de Avila, a central province, and second least populated in the nation, hosts the event.

A 10-run fifth inning lifted Cuba to a 10 to 5 win over Taiwan in the championship game of the World Baseball Challenge tournament in Prince George, Canada on Sunday evening.

In what has become this summer’s top amateur baseball rivalry, Cuba and Taiwan square off Sunday in the finals of the World Baseball Challenge tournament taking place in Prince George, Canada.