Conserving Cuba, After the Embargo
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Environmentalists are thinking ahead to the effect of tourists and investors on a landscape of crucial habitats.
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Scenes from the extraordinary life of Fidel Castro, the revolutionary president who weathered the 1962 missile crisis, the US embargo, the fall of the Berlin Wall and economic woe to lead a communist Cuba for nearly five decades
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Britain pledged emergency aid to Cuba as Hurricane Ivan, which has killed at least 71 people in the Caribbean, left part of the island battered and hurtled on towards the United States coast.
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HAVANA Despite tighter American restrictions on Cuba, Havana has signed more deals to buy US cattle and wheat. It happened at a major international trade fair in Havana, where American businesses played a major role.
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For a moment, the 25-year-old baker panicked when he heard that Fidel Castro was stepping down as Cuba's president. He flicked a switch to see if power had been cut, and turned a tap to check for water. He wondered whether the distribution center would come through with milk rations for his two kids.
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Cuba publishes an article signed by President Fidel Castro amid speculation among exiles about his health.
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cuba HAVANA -- Cuba released dissident lawyer Rene Gomez Manzano yesterday after holding him in jail for 18 months with no charges, a fellow dissident said. The outspoken critic of Cuba's communist government was arrested in his home July 22, 2005, for allegedly planning to take part in a protest outside the French Embassy in Havana. Gomez Manzano is the ...
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Washington, Sept. 21 (NNN): As a reward for the countryâs decision to give up weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), US President George Walker Bush has lifted his country&#39;s trade embargo on Libya.
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Cuba said Monday it was resuming formal ties with all of Europe, ending a deep freeze in relations following a 2003 crackdown on dissidents and the firing-squad executions of three men who tried to hijack a ferry.
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Havana ends its "cocktail wars" with the EU, resuming ties with the union and four member states still out in the cold.
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Cuba's communist state is rising from  the ashes of its post-Soviet economic crash with greater  control over its economy and help from China and Venezuela,  President Fidel Castro said on Saturday.
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Press embargoes may have served a useful purpose at some point, but now they are mostly PR tools. So let the information flow. Commentary by Adam L. Penenberg.
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Cuba is planning to ban the use of US dollars on the communist Caribbean island in answer to tighter US sanctions. Cuban leader Fidel Castro announced his decision on Monday
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Communist Cuba joins socialist Venezuela in embracing the concept of open-source software. By the Associated Press.
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The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, or CITES, in Bangkok has concluded, with conservationists and many of the 166 member nations supportive of steps taken to regulate the trade in rare species.
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By LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ  HIALEAH, Fla. - A group of Cuban refugees was released Saturday, a day after landing, some for the second time in a year, at a derelict bridge in the Florida Keys that authorities initially said wasn't U.S. soil.
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Cuba announced Monday that U.S. dollars will no longer be accepted at businesses and stores on the communist island starting next month in a move that will radically change the way cash transactions have been done there over the past decade.