Tropical Storm Fay moved over the western end of Cuba on Monday morning on its march toward the eastern Gulf of Mexico and Florida Keys, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami.
Tropical Storm Fay had weakened slightly but was reorganizing as it approached eastern Cuba moving westward from Haiti, the National Hurricane Center said Saturday.
BEIJING -- For a scene to be truly surreal, it has to go beyond the realm of what we call odd or strange. There has to be a feeling of displacement. Time must bend a bit. And there's got to be a bewildering wrench thrown in for good measure, something so incongruous that its absurdity somehow balances out the vague sense of menace in the air.
The number of political prisoners held in Cuba has dropped slightly, but the overall rights situation remains "unfavorable" under President Raúl Castro's government with more brief detentions of dissidents, the island's leading independent human rights group said Tuesday.
The European Union on Thursday agreed to lift its diplomatic sanctions against Cuba, but imposed tough conditions on the communist island to maintain sanction-free relations
Tropical Storm Fay moved over the western end of Cuba on Monday morning on its march toward the eastern Gulf of Mexico and Florida Keys, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami.
Tropical Storm Fay had weakened slightly but was reorganizing as it approached eastern Cuba moving westward from Haiti, the National Hurricane Center said Saturday.
BEIJING -- For a scene to be truly surreal, it has to go beyond the realm of what we call odd or strange. There has to be a feeling of displacement. Time must bend a bit. And there's got to be a bewildering wrench thrown in for good measure, something so incongruous that its absurdity somehow balances out the vague sense of menace in the air.
The number of political prisoners held in Cuba has dropped slightly, but the overall rights situation remains "unfavorable" under President Raúl Castro's government with more brief detentions of dissidents, the island's leading independent human rights group said Tuesday.
The European Union on Thursday agreed to lift its diplomatic sanctions against Cuba, but imposed tough conditions on the communist island to maintain sanction-free relations
Sen. Barack Obama told Florida's Cuban-American community Friday that his Cuba policy would be based on "libertad" and freedom for the island nation's people.
President Bush announced Wednesday that Americans soon will be allowed to send cell phones to Cuba, which he hopes will inspire freedom of expression in the island nation
Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama continued their tussle over foreign policy Tuesday, shifting their argument to whether the U.S. should engage Cuba's communist regime.
After Fidel Castro announced that he was resigning the presidency of Cuba on Feb. 19, shares of OfficeMax rose 12%. The reason? It has a claim worth $2.5 billion dating back to when its property there was seized in the wake of the 1959 revolution. Similar claims made by nearly 6,000 companies are currently valued at $20 billion, and U.S. laws require all claims to be settled before trade can be normalized.
Cuba will allow its citizens to stay in hotels previously reserved for foreigners, the latest in a series of decisions to lift bans on goods and services that the average Cuban can't afford.
A casual observer at CONCACAF's Olympic qualifying tournament may not be able to pick out the supposed regional powers after the competition's rocky start.
Fidel Castro's nearly five decades of rule ended Sunday when Cuba's National Assembly chose his younger brother Raul to be the country's new president.
The U.S. embargo on Cuba will remain in place despite Fidel Castro's announcement that he's resigning as Cuba's leader, Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte said Tuesday.
Philip B. Agee, the former CIA agent who broke with the agency 40 years ago and then published a book about it, has died in Havana, Cuba's state-run newspaper Granma reported Wednesday.
Tropical Storm Noel weakened Tuesday over most of Cuba after lashing the island's northern coast, but heavy rains continued to deluge the Dominican Republic, Haiti and portions of the Bahamas, forecasters said.
U.S. President George W. Bush ruled out any easing of the decades-old U.S. trade embargo on Cuba but proposed loosening some restrictions on contacts with the communist-ruled island, if more freedoms were allowed.
In opposing Bush's hard-line policy, the Democratic candidate has challenged a golden rule of Florida politics. But he may have outmaneuvered his opponents
SOMETIME LATER this year, less than 70 miles from Florida, a consortium of Spanish, Indian, and Norwegian companies will probably start drilling for oil. It could mark the beginning of a Cuban oil ...
The two shortstops, the two hombres who share a position and a homeland, were scooping up ground balls on a back field at the Seattle Mariners' training camp in Peoria, Ariz., one morning last month, taking turns gliding to the ball and firing to first base. The efficient spectacle that is a Major League Baseball batting practice session buzzed around them, balls zipping point to point: pitcher to batter, batter to outfield, fielder to first baseman.
This month, Art of Life is in Cuba, a country brimming with character. We explore the riches of the country which, behind the crumbling facades, lie in the spirit of its people.
Sometime later this year, less than 70 miles from Florida, a consortium of Spanish, Indian and Norwegian companies will likely start drilling for oil. It could mark the beginning of a Cuban oil rus...
When a delegation of 14 Cubans tried to stay at their usual hotel in Oslo for a travel fair in January, they found themselves bounced from the reservations roster.
Tiempo Libre named their new CD "What You've Been Waiting For/Lo Que Esperabas." And this week, the guesswork is easy: The seven members of Tiempo Libre are waiting for their Grammy.
The U.S. should have assistance in Cuba within weeks of President Fidel Castro's death to support a transitional government and help move the country toward democracy, a government report recommends.
"My mother taught me you don't need to be rich to share your wealth." She came to the U.S. from Havana in 1961 and worked odd jobs--as a seamstress, a tarot card reader--but she always managed to s...
Workmen Thursday were putting the final touches on tile floors and toilets built in the back yard of a Cuban dissident, the venue for what would be -- if police don't stop it -- an unprecedented meeting of opponents of Cuba's communist government.
Church bells rang out on the Communist island of Cuba Saturday to announce the death of Pope Paul II, the only pontiff ever to visit the country. He went there in January 1998.
In a move intended to centralize and strengthen Communist Party control of Cuban society, the island's government has introduced regulations barring Cubans who work in the tourist industry "from having personal contact with foreigners."
After December, you can say adios to Cuba. That's when licenses held by groups that sponsor educational trips to the island expire. (In response to President Bush's tougher stand on Fidel Castro, t...
Forty-two years is an awfully long time to hold a grudge, but that's how long the U.S. has shunned commerce with Cuba. Forgiveness, however, may finally be around the corner, as a diverse group of ...
Listen up, Republicans. It's time to change the subject. Trying to drive Clinton from office ended up driving people away from the GOP. What you need now is less Cotton Mather and more Ronald Reaga...
Proponents of the American embargo against Cuba argue as follows: By squeezing the Cuban economy enough, the U.S. government can make Cubans even poorer than Fidel Castro has managed to over the pa...
Vietnam and Cuba may be on opposite sides of the globe, but these days they send tingles up the spine of the same sorts of people: financiers, investors, and entrepreneurs who peruse cutting-edge e...
Cuba's real miracle? The fact that Fidel Castro is still hanging on. The economy is decaying rapidly without the prop of Soviet aid, and rumors persist that the dictator's health isn't much better....
THE FEUD that has trapped the U.S. and Cuba in a time warp for a whole generation is living its last days. On one side of the Gulf Stream sits the 32-year-old regime of Fidel Castro still pretendin...
-- KARL POHL, 58, president of West Germany's Bundesbank: ''It is one of my responsibilities to give the impression that I am not nervous, that I'm in control.''
LONDON -- Cuba's creditor banks have offered the country $50 million in new loans as part of a rescheduling package . . . However, Cuba appears set on holding out for more funds from the West . . ....
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