Cuba
Cuba’s Raul Castro backs asylum offers for Snowden
Raul Castro stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Latin American countries that have expressed a willingness to take in NSA leaker Edward Snowden, but made no apparent reference to whether Cuba would be willing to offer him refuge or safe passage.
Mystery as fugitive Edward Snowden reportedly leaves Russia
Moscow: Ex-CIA analyst Edward Snowden on Monday continued his globe-trotting game of cat-and-mouse with US authorities on his tail, reportedly slipping out of Russia on his way to seek asylum in La
Fugitive Edward Snowden in Moscow, seeks Ecuador asylum
Moscow: Former US spy Edward Snowden arrived on Sunday in Russia, requesting asylum in Ecuador to escape the US legal authorities after leaking sensational details of cyber-espionage by Washington.
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Fidel Castro's sister denies stroke rumours
Fidel Castro's sister has rubbished rumours that former Cuban leader suffered a massive stroke and was on the brink of death, according to Venezuelan media.
Juanita Castro, who resides in Miami, said
Power failure plunges western Cuba into darkness
A power outage caused by a transmission failure left a significant part of Cuba, including the capital, in the dark on late Sunday.
The state-run Electric Union company said the blackout affected 10
US swimmer Nyad abandons fourth Cuba-Florida bid
US distance swimmer Diana Nyad abandoned her fourth attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida on Tuesday after battling lightning storms and swarms of jellyfish for more than two days, according to her cre
US keeps Cuba on its terror blacklist
The United States kept Cuba on a blacklist of alleged state sponsors of terrorism for the 30th year running, the State Department said on Tuesday in an annual report.
Cuba angrily denounced the actio
Cuban dissident Paya killed in car accident
Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya, a winner of the Sakharov human rights prize who challenged the island's communist regime for decades, died on Sunday in a car accident, the government and a priest said.
Cuba poised to pass gay marriage law: Castro daughter
Famed sexologist Mariela Castro, daughter of the Cuban president, said on Thursday she expected her country this year will pass a same-sex marriage law, although she said Cuba still needs to be "more
Americas summit to open marred by bombings
Fears of violence marred Saturday's opening of a summit gathering US President Barack Obama and Latin American leaders when four bombs went off here and in the Colombian capital.
Two of the crude dev
