Cuban avoids death sentence in bloody hijack bid
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A Cuban army sergeant who shot and killed a soldier and an officer in an attempt to hijack a plane to the United States has been sentenced to life in prison, a rights group said on Wednesday.
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One of the rebels involved in the attacks on East Timor's two top leaders denies trying to assassinate them.
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US lawmakers back from a trip to Cuba said officials there had insisted Fidel Castro was not dying, and that his brother Raul Castro is not Havana's new leader.
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A Trinidad court denied bail on Monday for three suspects in an alleged plot to blow up New York's JFK International Airport and a local prosecutor said they may face life imprisonment.
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Two Cubans in a boatload of people being smuggled to the United States drowned last week when their craft capsized off the island's coast, authorities said Thursday. Nine other passengers and two smugglers managed to swim to shore.
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A former apartheid soldier-turned-mercenary avoided the death penalty at a sentencing here Friday, but still received a 34-year prison term for trying to overthrow the government of this oil-rich West African nation.
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The man accused of plotting the terror attacks in Russia was once capable of restraint.
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HOUSTON, Sept. 11 -- A man convicted of participating in the nation's deadliest human-smuggling attempt was sentenced Monday to more than 23 years in prison.
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Washington - The United States on Thursday refused to wish arch-foe Fidel Castro a speedy recovery from bone fractures sustained in an accidental stumble, saying the Cuban leader&#39;s injuries were of &quot;little concern&quot; compared to the suffering of the Cuban
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The US declines to wish Fidel Castro a speedy recovery after he fractures bones in a fall at a public ceremony.
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A longtime captive at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will be sent home to his native country after a military tribunal there determined that he is not an enemy combatant, Navy Secretary Gordon R. England announced yesterday.
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Ondina Perez grew teary Friday as she recalled the day 30 years ago when a Cuban airliner exploded in flight over the island of Barbados, killing her pilot brother and the other 72 people aboard. Three decades later, Perez and other family members of those killed want the man sought for masterminding the explosion, Luis Posada Carriles, to face trial.
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Seventy suspected mercenaries standing trial in Harare escaped a possible death sentence yesterday when Zimbabwe announced that they will not be extradited to Equatorial Guinea.
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An anti-communist militant who fired a bazooka at a Polish freighter walked free with impunity in this sultry subtropical U.S. city, and Cuban Americans favoring closer ties with their homeland could once expect to be firebombed here.
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Top Florida officials say they treated the politically charged custody fight over a young Cuban girl like any other case, but documents obtained by The Associated Press show they took extraordinary steps to stop the youngster's father from taking her back to the communist island.
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Convalescing Cuban President Fidel Castro said on Sunday the man the United States and Mafia contracted to poison him in the early 1960s would not have been able to get close enough to him to be successful.
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David Hicks, the only person convicted of terrorism charges at a U.S. military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay, walked free Saturday and said he did not want to do "anything that might result in my return" to the prison in Cuba.