Cuba
Cuba joins attack on Australia's tobacco plain-packaging rules
Geneva: Cuba has become the latest country to launch a legal attack on Australia's landmark plain-packaging rules for tobacco at the World Trade Organisation, the global body says.
Date set for end of Cuba's Castro era
HAVANA:Raul Castro has accepted a new five-year term and says it will be his last as Cuba's president, for the first time putting a date on the end of the Castro era.
Cuba prepared to start talking but US gives Castro the cold shoulder
Peter Orsi HAVANA: Cuba is willing to mend fences with its Cold War foe the United States, says the President, Raul Castro.
Cuba eases grip on banking sector by allowing small loans
HAVANA: Cuba will allow banks to lend money to small businesses, private farmers and those who want to repair or build homes - a revolutionary step for the communist government.
Land and life in Cuba
Plans to legitimise private property in Cuba have left many Cubans displeased. But even with some state control, experts say, the property sales could transform Cuba more than any other economic...
Pope faces hard questions from Cuba's faithful
Silao, Mexico Pope Benedict XVI has urged Mexicans to wield their faith against evils such as drug violence before hundreds of thousands of worshippers, saying they would find hope if they purified their hearts.
US pressured to drop Cuba veto
Cartagena, Colombia A summit of 33 western hemisphere leaders opens with the US and Canada standing firm, but alone, against everyone else's insistence that Cuba join future summits.
Cuba's cigar festival closes
Cuba's annual cigar auction closes with a lavish gala dinner though overshadowed by sales slump
Now he tells us: Cuba economic model doesn't work, says Fidel
Paul Haven HAVANA: Fidel Castro has told a visiting American journalist that Cuba's economic model does not work any more, a rare comment on domestic affairs since stepping down from the presidency four years...
Cuba celebrates Castro birthday
Hundreds of Cuban schoolchildren marked Castro's 84th birthday - with a giant cake and good wishes.
Cuba travel boost
MEXICO CITY: US President Barack Obama may ease travel restrictions on Cuba, allowing more Americans to visit the island on educational and cultural trips, a US official said.
US relaxes donation rules for Cuba
MIAMI: The US government has released new rules defining which Americans may travel freely to Cuba, making it easier for US schools, churches and cultural groups to visit and increasing the amount of...
Raul's revisionist Cuba embraces home sales
Robin Yapp, Londonlos Angeles Times SAO PAULO: Cubans will be allowed to buy and sell homes for the first time since Fidel Castro seized power in 1959.
Cuba mulls term limits for leaders
Cuba's president Raul Castro recommends imposing term limits on presidency and other posts to make way for new blood.
Rebels' trainer was held by US in Cuba
LOS ANGELES: A former prisoner at Guantanamo Bay has taken a leading role in the military opposition to Muammar Gaddafi, it has emerged.
Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba
Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba to discuss economic policies and seek ways to improve relations between the US and Cuba.
US allies accused of kowtowing to Cuba
Rory Carroll and Jessica Wright AUSTRALIA, Canada and several European countries have stopped pressing Cuba over human rights in the hope of winning commercial favours from Havana, according to confidential US diplomatic cables...
Freed dissident warns of chaos if Cuba resists sweeping reforms
Isabel Sanchez HAVANA: Freed after years in prison and refusing to go into exile, a dissident economist, Arnaldo Ramos, has slammed the communist government, saying chaos looms if Cuba does not launch economic and...
Obama heckled over US drone use
President Barack Obama was interrupted three times by a woman who shouted about drones and detainees in Cuba as he delivered a speech on national security.
Skirmish during Guantanamo raid
Charlie Savage At the start of a pre-dawn raid by guards on Saturday, detainees wielding broomsticks hit two guards on their helmets during a brief melee.
