WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A former U.S. State Department official and his wife pleaded guilty on Friday to charges that they spied for almost ...
HAVANA (Reuters) - There were hugs and handshakes all around on Friday as teams of older U.S. and Cuban softball players ended a ...
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that congressional efforts to end the US ban on travel to Cuba would take a back seat to overhauling US health care and fostering job creation. "I've always been a supporter of lifting the travel ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cuba's Raul Castro has kept the system his brother Fidel used to repress critics, refusing to free scores of people imprisoned years ago and jailing others for "dangerousness," Human Rights Watch said in a report issued on Wednesday. The ...
Communist Cuba's shift from Fidel Castro's leadership to President Raul Castro's has brought continued serious human rights violations including persistent aggression against dissidents. A new report by Human Rights Watch released Wednesday cited examples such as at least 40 people arrested for ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The first detainee transferred to New York from a U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to face criminal charges in a civilian court will not be represented by military lawyers, a judge ruled on Wednesday. Ahmed Khalfan ...
US rights group says Cubans' lives unimproved under 2nd Castro and worse in some ways Human Rights Watch says conditions in Cuba have not improved under Raul Castro and in some ways are worse than they had been when his brother Fidel ...
Top Cuban activist ends hunger strike, resumes normal diet amid reports she was gravely ill A hunger strike by a Cuban dissident has been a hot story for Miami-based Spanish-language media, and concern about her health even reached the halls of the ...
The United States should "scrap" a ban on its citizens travelling to Cuba, two key US lawmakers said Tuesday, blaming the policy for hampering Washington's efforts to promote democratic reforms there. "US law lets American citizens travel to any country on earth, ...
American softball players find friendly reception as sports diplomats in Cuba Softball has been a passion for Michael Eizenberg since he was a child, but the 63-year-old has never been as excited about a game as the one played Monday on a ...
The United States and Cuba will hold a second round of talks on migration issues in Havana at a yet undetermined date, a State Department spokesman said Monday. "We are currently exploring dates that would work for both delegations to discuss the ...
Michael Eizemberg, left, of the Eastern Massachusetts Senior Softball Association, wears a boxing glove as he jokes with Cuba's former World Champion boxer Teofilo Stevenson as Cuba's senior softball team looks on before the start of the Old Time Senior Softball Tournament ...
