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Washington (AFP) - The US Senate Appropriations Committee approved a slate of amendments that open to the door to restoring open travel to Cuba, as well shipping and agricultural financing.
Of all the foreign policy events under the Obama administration, two of the most significant could be reestablishment of diplomatic relations with Cuba and reaching a nuclear deal with Iran.
Diplomatic relations between the US and Cuba have been officially restored, with Cuba's foreign minister set to take the hugely symbolic step of raising his country's flag at a newly designated embassy in Washington later on Monday.
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The world's largest cruise company could be heading to Cuba.
Last week we saw an encouraging sign that the 50 year cold war between the US and Cuba was finally coming to an end. President Obama announced on Wednesday that the US and Cuba would restore full diplomatic relations and that embassies could be reope
Last week we saw an encouraging sign that the 50 year cold war between the US and Cuba was finally coming to an end. President Obama announced on Wednesday that the US and Cuba would restore full diplomatic relations and that embassies could be re-op
Alan Gross was locked up by the Castro regime for half a decade. When he got out, no one in the U.S. government bothered to debrief him about his time in captivity.
After nearly seven months of negotiations, the United States and Cuba are announcing Wednesday an agreement to reopen embassies in Washington and Havana later this month, in the latest move to end decades of hostility.
HAVANA -- Like many of his countrymen, Jorge Angulo hopes the United States will lift the decades-old economic embargo against Cuba.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- AP Source: US, Cuba to announce opening of embassies on Wednesday .
HAVANA, June 30 (Reuters) - The World Health Organization on Tuesday declared Cuba the first country in the world to eliminate the transmission of HIV and syphilis from mother to child.
The World Health Organization on Tuesday declared Cuba the first country in the world to eliminate the transmission of HIV and syphilis from mother to child.
Dozens of Cubans risk their lives daily, illegally crossing several countries to get to the US.
With negotiations under way to restore US ties, the Cuban capital's days as a kind of open-air museum where time stood still are numbered. As the country opens up to the outside world, its people look likely to push for faster change
The Obama administration is expected to announce an agreement with Cuba in early July to reopen embassies and restore diplomatic relations severed more than five decades ago, U.S. sources familiar with the matter said on Friday.
FDA cigar ban proposal a government regulation too far
More than 50 years of U.S. economic sanctions did not bring Cuba to its knees. Now, with normal relations in sight, we are learning that Cuba not only survived but may have surpassed the U.S. in some respects. - See more at: http://www.thedailybell.c
Elian Gonzalez would like to return to the United States, he tells ABC News in an exclusive interview.
During the 1950s and 1960s, the CIA made multiple attempts to assassinate Cuba's ruler, Fidel Castro.
The president deserves criticism for his handling of some foreign-policy issues. Cuba is not one of them.
At least two dissidents made it past a first round of voting and are standing as candidates in municipal elections that will be watched on and off the island Sunday as an unprecedented test of Cuba's single-party system.
At the Summit of the Americas where he met with Raul Castro, the 83-year-old younger brother of Fidel, President Obama provided an insight into where he is taking us, and why:
HAVANA -- The diplomatic thaw between the United States and Cuba has been accompanied by an unexpected outburst of flag-waving here -- of the American flag.
Castro: Don't Blame Obama for Past US Oppression
A new set of hearings have been canceled in the long-delayed, controversy plagued trial of the alleged mastermind of the September 11th attacks.
President Barack Obama challenged Latin American leaders on Saturday to improve human rights and democracy even as he works to end decades of hostility between the United States and communist-run Cuba.
Former Cuban President Fidel Castro, 88, appeared in public "full of vitality" for the first time in more than a year on Monday, greeting a delegation of Venezuelans, official media reported on Saturday.
