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After ending its qualifying round play with a come from behind 11-6 win over Nicaragua, the Cuban baseball team has the day off on Friday. The day’s games will determine who Cuba plays on Saturday in their semifinal contest.

The Cuban government confirmed Thursday the 28-member delegation for the opening ceremony of its embassy in the US capital on July 20, headed by its Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez.

With little room for another defeat, the Cuban national baseball team went into Ajax Park Stadium in Toronto on Wednesday and got the job done starting with a big first inning rally, reported Ray Otero of baseballdecuba.com.

The US State Department announced in June that it wants to send at least 15 Cubans to graduate school in the United States so they can “more effectively establish, lead, manage, and grow independent organizations in Cuba.” Here are some questions and answers on the program.

A building in the historic center of Havana collapsed at dawn on Wednesday leaving four dead, including a three-year-old child and three other people injured.

Cuban President Raul Castro addressed the island’s legislature on Thursday emphasizing the improved macro economy annual growth figure of 4.7 for the first semester of the year and noting that Cuba is paying its debts on time.

High temperatures will be around 32 and 33° C (90 and 91 F), and the lows will range around 24° C (75 F). The sea surface temperature will be stable at 29° C (84 F).

Veteran Shawn Hill, 34, preserved Canada’s unbeaten record in the Toronto Pan American Games on Tuesday night with his second victory of the tournament. Hill went six scoreless innings as his team won by the score of 3-1, on a three-run home by Tyler O’Niell.

In their mid-year session, the Cuban Parliament, which usually holds two brief sessions a year, delved into the problems of poorly administered state enterprises – principally agricultural – and proposed shaking off the dead weight of their repeated losses and unsuccessful plans.