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Cuba’s Council of State announced today that by the end of this year, general elections will be held to select delegates to municipal and provincial assemblies and deputies to the parliament.

The president of USA Baseball, Mike Gaski, along with executive director Paul Seiler, arrived in Havana for the resumption today of the traditional Cuba-US baseball series, which had been canceled since 1996.

While we’re in for a period of generally good weather, the afternoons will cloud up to produce occasional rainstorms due to daytime heating and the influence of ocean breezes.

A threat has been made against the life of Rene Gonzalez, one of the five Cuban intelligence operatives convicted in the US, reported Canadian journalist Jean Guy Allard today in an article published in the Granma newspaper.

One leg of the Cuba solidarity caravan of the Pastors for Peace organization finally arrived in Seattle, Washington, after having been hampered for two days by US authorities at the Canadian border.

Cuban authorities reported today on the deaths of three persons from cholera and 50 cases of the infection in Granma Province, reported DPA news on Tuesday.

Victor Mesa will lead Cuba’s national baseball team when they bump up against the US university squad here in the capital from July 5 to 9, said Higinio Velez, the president of the National Baseball Federation on Monday.

The signing of a maritime delimitation treaty between the governments of Havana and Tegucigalpa is tentatively slated for August, announced Honduran Foreign Minister Arturo Corrales on Monday.