US President Barack Obama has shaken hands with Cuba’s Raul Castro, a rare gesture between the two ideologically opposed nations.
Edward Snowden has won support from Cuba for his bid to seek asylum in Latin America, as he embarked on his third week in limbo at a Moscow airport.
The star couple is said to have been carrying permits to visit Cuba, but Florida senator Marco Rubio has criticised the holiday.
US pop star Beyoncé and her rapper husband Jay-Z’s fifth wedding anniversary celebration in Havana has sparked criticism from the Republican Party.
Venezuela’s government has for the first time revealed that President Hugo Chavez has been receiving chemotherapy since undergoing surgery in Cuba.
Hugo Chavez’s swearing-in for a new six-year term can be postponed if he is unable to attend due to his battle to recover from cancer surgery.
Namibia has been condemned for planning to donate a "Noah’s Ark" of 150 wild animals – including lions, rhino, cheetah and leopards – to Cuba.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returned home after 11 days of cancer treatment in Cuba, saying his latest round of radiation therapy was successful.
The 1950s Cuban revolution led to an egalitarian society with many admirable features.
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/ 10 January 2012
South Africa and Cuba have signed a memorandum to put a stamp on the cooperation between the two country’s armies.
Inmates in Afghanistan’s US-run Bagram Prison have faced abuses including torture, beatings and other mistreatment, according to a government report.
A medical practitioner who studied in Cuba is optimistic about rural medicine in South Africa.
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/ 24 December 2011
President Raul Castro has announced his intentions to release about 3 000 prisoners for ‘humanitarian reasons’ and reform onerous travel laws.
Cuba’s General Leopoldo Cintra Frias, a hero of military campaigns in Angola and Ethiopia, has been named as the country’s new defence minister.
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/ 27 September 2011
Cuba wants to re-establish relations with the United States with a focus on humanitarian issues, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said on Monday.
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/ 26 September 2011
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro accused US President Barack Obama of speaking "gibberish" in his recent address to the United Nations.
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/ 9 September 2011
President Jacob Zuma’s ambassadorial choice for Cuba is being investigated by the public protector.
Cuba has been partying since Tuesday, with concerts and art exhibitions to celebrate the 85th birthday of former leader Fidel Castro.
Members of Cuba’sTwitter community gathered on Friday to put faces to names in a meeting where political viewpoints were off limits.
American writer Ernest Hemingway’s devotees in Cuba can walk in the footsteps of the author death to honour the 50th anniversary of his death.
Cuba’s Jose Castelar on Tuesday finished rolling one large cigar — at 81,8m, his fifth Guinness world record.
Raul Castro has proposed term limits for Cuba’s rulers, including himself, in an unprecedented effort to rejuvenate the island’s political leadership.
Hopes of a major shake-up at a landmark Communist Party congress in Cuba have been dashed as the old guard kept a vice-like grip on power.
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/ 11 February 2011
These days it is easy to find an all-inclusive holiday, where all travel, accommodation, food, drink, entertainment and activities are included.
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/ 6 February 2011
Cuba fears the United States is encouraging dissent through social media such as Facebook and Twitter with the goal of toppling the government.
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/ 5 November 2010
A Cuban airliner on a flight to Havana crashed in central Cuba, killing all 68 people on board including 28 foreigners, officials said on Friday.
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/ 22 October 2010
The European Parliament awarded its top human rights prize on Thursday to Cuban dissident Guillermo Farinas.
More than one million state employees are to be laid off in the island’s economic shake-up.
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/ 9 September 2010
Fidel Castro has accused Iran’s President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, of anti-Semitism in a passionate defence of Israel’s right to exist.
Cuba has signalled that it will free its political prisoners and let them stay on the island in a bid to repair ties with the international community.
The Cuban government has begun releasing jailed dissidents in a political concession brokered by the Catholic Church.
Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro took his warning of impending nuclear war to Cuba’s Foreign Ministry on Friday.