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HAVANA Ryan Kesler Jersey , March 26 (Xinhua) -- Cuba and the United States wrapped up three-day talks in Havana Thursday on improving telecommunications between the two countries, according to Cuba's Communications Ministry. The U.S. has announced measures to relax restrictions on Cuba's telecommunications as a result of Washington's five-decade trade embargo against Cuba. However, putting them into effect is complicated by the fact that the embargo itself remains in place, the ministry indicated in a statement published late Wednesday in state daily Granma.


The two sides discussed "the reach of the new regulations issued by the U.S. government to implement changes to the application of the embargo in the area of telecommunications and the restrictions that still remain in effect, which impede a normal relationship between the two countries in this field," the ministry said.


During the talks, Cuba provided the U.S. team with information on its policy on national cybersecurity and information technology Phil Kessel Jersey , the ministry added.


The U.S. delegation was led by Daniel Sepulveda, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy in the State Department's Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, and included officials from the Department of Commerce and the Federal Communications Commission.


The visitors also toured the state-run Telecommunications Company of Cuba (Etecsa), the University of Information Science, and the Jose Antonio Echeverria Technical University.


Following a joint Cuba-U.S. announcement in December on normalizing ties, the U.S. has made several mostly symbolic changes in its regulations concerning Cuba, such as allowing travelers to bring back a limited number of cigars and bottles of rum.


In telecommunications Patrick Kane Jersey , the first agreement was to reestablish direct voice telephone calls between the two countries, which Etecsa announced nearly two weeks ago.


Internet connection is the pending issue. Cuba connected to the international web in 1996, but via satellite due to embargo restrictions that bar it from linking to nearby undersea cables. As a result, Cuba has one of the world's lowest rates of Internet access, at 5 percent. Broadband access is even lower, at 1 percent.


The luxury of a home connection is restricted to just a few professions, such as journalism Max Pacioretty Jersey , medicine and public office. Everyone else has to use cybercafes that charge 4.50 U.S. dollars an hour, a rate that's prohibitively expensive for an average monthly salary of 20 dollars, even though health, housing, education and basic needs are covered by the state.


A week ago several executives from Google, led by Deputy Director of Google Ideas Scott Carpenter, visited Cuba to explore business opportunities.


Netflix almost immediately announced its entry into the Cuban market Matt Niskanen Jersey , without any prior negotiation with local authorities, but using the movie-streaming service in Cuba is next to impossible given the slow connection, not to mention the price and the credit cards required to pay for it.

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Kim Kardashian West is opening up about expecting her third child via surrogate.


ET recently spoke with the 37-year-old reality superstar about her newest fragrance, KKW Crystal Gardenia, where she also opened up about growing her family with husband Kanye West. Kim, who had notoriously difficult pregnancies with both 4-year-old daughter North and 1-year-old son Saint, acknowledges that her experience so far with a surrogate has been a big adjustment.


"You know Kyle Palmieri Jersey , it is really different," Kim tells ET's Keltie Knight. "Anyone that says or thinks it is just the easy way out is just completely wrong. I think it is so much harder to go through it this way, because you are not really in control. And, you know, obviously you pick someone that you completely trust and that you have a good bond and relationship with, but it is still ... knowing that I was able to carry my first two babies and not, you know Justin Abdelkader Jersey , my baby now, it's hard for me. So, it's definitely a harder experience than I anticipated just in the control area."


Kim acknowledges that she didn't anticipate the hardships she's experienced so far.


"I hated being pregnant and I never thought I'd ever ... I thought this was going to be so easy, but you know, even in how much I hated it, if I could do it myself I would have preferred that," Kim admits. "So Jonathan Quick Jersey , that inner struggle is kind of hard, but I am just rolling with it and it is what it is."


Of course, Kim is grateful that she is able to welcome another child.


"I think it is definitely a different experience and I am blessed that I am able to do this, and technology is the way that it is that we can do this," she shares. "But it is still a process that you need to digest. Even the fact that it is happening -- and you do forget sometimes -- because I think when you are pregnant, by the time you have the baby, you are so prepared and so ready John Carlson Jersey , and now I am just like, 'Oh my God I am going to freak out because I'm not ready and I'm not prepared,' but it'll just all come into place."


As for how her kids are taking the news of getting another sibling, she says North couldn't be more ecstatic.


"They are excited," Kim says. "I mean, I don't know if they don't feel it as much because they don't see my big belly and probably hear me complaining every two seconds. But, we do talk about it a lot Joe Pavelski Jersey , so I think they are really excited. I think my son, I don't know how he is going to react because he doesn't get it yet, but my daughter is really excited."


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