Cuba Expels Spanish, Dutch Legislators in EU Spat
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Cuba said on Saturday it barred entry to three European lawmakers on a trip to support dissidents, setting back Spain&#39;s campaign to mend frosty
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A senior United Nations official and another from the European Union left Afghanistan on Thursday after the government ordered their expulsion, accusing them of holding talks with the Taliban and for paying cash to the group.
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Russia said on Friday it was expelling a  Latvian diplomat after the Baltic state expelled one of  Moscow's diplomats in a row over an apparent spying case.
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In a bid to thaw icy relations with Europe after last year&#39;s crackdown on dissent, Cuban authorities released well-known writer Raul Rivero and four other dissidents as the EU reviews
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Cuba broke off diplomatic relations with Panama after Panama&#39;s President Mireya Moscoso pardoned four Cubans convicted over a plot to kill Cuban leader Fidel Castro, Agence France-Presse reported.
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Cuban authorities on Tuesday freed dissident writer Raul Rivero, the latest of half a dozen political prisoners released over the past few days in a move widely seen as intended to court favor with the European Union.
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In a bid to thaw icy relations with Europe after last year's crackdown on dissent, Cuban authorities released well-known writer Raul Rivero and four other dissidents as the EU reviews diplomatic sanctions against the island nation.
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Cuba ended a diplomatic deadlock with eight European Union nations on Monday in response to proposals by EU officials to stop inviting dissidents to National Day receptions in Havana.
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Cuba severed diplomatic ties with Panama on Thursday, retaliating within hours for the president&#39;s pardoning four Cuban Ã©migrÃ©s accused of trying to assassinate Cuban President Fidel Castro.
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MADRID : A political row erupted after Spain and the Netherlands vehemently protested Cuba&#39;s refusal to grant entry to three parliamentary deputies who had arrived in Havana to meet Cuban dissidents.
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Cuba condemned the decision by outgoing Panamanian President Mireya Moscoso to set free four notorious terrorists of Cuban origin and announced that it was breaking diplomatic relations with the Central American country indefinitely.
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The Cuban government has stopped the use of United States dollars in its transactions following the United States move to freeze all international transactions related to Cuba.
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MIAMI -- The Miami Herald's publisher resigned Tuesday, saying "ambiguously communicated" personnel policies resulted in the firings of three journalists at its Spanish-language paper who were paid to appear on U.S.-government broadcasts aimed at promoting democracy in Cuba.
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Cuba and the US trade bitter words after Cuba announced it was banning the use of dollars on the island.
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Chicago Tribune - The Cuban government announced Monday that it is restoring diplomatic contacts with eight European countries almost two years after European nations scaled back their ties following the communist government's crackdown on dissent.
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Cuba's communist government rejected calls from the European Union for negotiations to improve relations on Friday and said talks can only happen when the EU scraps sanctions imposed on the island in 2003.
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The European Union is considering a shift in policy toward Cuba that would get it back on speaking terms with President Fidel Castro's government, diplomats said.