Fidel Castro made his first known public appearance since falling ill four years ago in a visit this week to a Havana scientific facility.
The Johannesburg Art Gallery breaks 2010 ranks to stage a show about race and identity, writes <b>Anthea Buys</b>.
Students studying medicine in Cuba are falling short on the clinical skills needed for South Africa.
Illness has forced him from public view, but Fidel Castro is back via a television series that celebrates his escape from 638 assassination plots.
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/ 3 February 2010
Yoan used to earn $25 a month working as a computer technician for a state company — and an extra $500 selling internet access on Cuba’s
Cuba’s President, Raul Castro, has offered to talk to the United States and ease half a century of enmity.
A rights activist says most of Cuba’s political prisoners would rather serve out terms than be part of an exchange for spies imprisoned in the US.
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, reacting to an Americas summit on Monday, urged US President Barack Obama to end the "blockade" of Cuba.
Cuban leader Fidel Castro called China’s growing economic power in the world a ”bitter drink” for the West, ahead of a G20 summit this week.
”I’m always scared,” said Pedro as he deftly twisted large tobacco leaves to make fake famous name Havana cigars in a clandestine workshop.
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/ 25 February 2009
The opening of a McDonald’s in Communist Cuba seems unlikely any time soon, even with US President Barack Obama in the White House.
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/ 23 February 2009
Binyam Mohamed, a UK resident held at Guantánamo Bay for more than four years, was released and put on a plane to home on Monday.
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/ 22 January 2009
Cuba’s Fidel Castro praised United States President Barack Obama on Wednesday for his ”noble intentions”.
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/ 21 January 2009
Hours after taking office, US President Barack Obama ordered military prosecutors in the Guantánamo war crimes tribunals to ask for a 120-day halt.
A visit to Havana by a black president ending the US policy of isolation would be as magical as events of 50 years ago.
The revolutionary leader said history would judge him, but the daily struggle is testing even his most loyal supporters.
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/ 28 December 2008
On January 1, Cuba celebrates the 50th anniversary of its Communist revolution, which ushered in decades of enmity with the United States.
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/ 15 November 2008
Without naming Barack Obama, Fidel Castro cast doubt on Friday on the possibility that a new president would bring much change in US policy.
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/ 14 November 2008
Ruusian President Dmitry Medvedev will visit Cuba later this month, in Russia’s latest move to fortify relations with US adversaries.
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/ 9 November 2008
Hurricane Paloma battered south-eastern Cuba with roaring winds, heavy rains and a surging sea when it crashed ashore on Saturday.
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/ 10 September 2008
Hurricane Ike swirled over the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday, targeting Texas near the US offshore oil patch after toppling decrepit buildings in Havana.
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/ 9 September 2008
A weakened Hurricane Ike swept toward western Cuba on Monday after it ripped a wide swath of destruction through the eastern side of the island.
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/ 8 September 2008
Cuba raised its hurricane alert level to maximum on Monday for Havana as deadly Hurricane Ike raged westward across the island.
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/ 8 September 2008
Hurricane Ike raged over Cuba early on Monday, pummelling the island with gale force winds and rain after killing dozens in beleaguered Haiti.
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/ 7 September 2008
Barely a week after Hurricane Gustav devastated western Cuba, the island was battening down the hatches again on Sunday for another killer storm.
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/ 7 September 2008
Hurricane Ike barrelled toward Cuba as an extremely dangerous category-four storm on Sunday.
Hurricane Gustav roared toward western Cuba on Saturday with 205km/h winds on its way to the Gulf of Mexico after a deadly pass through the Caribbean.
Tropical Storm Fay, which killed at least 57 people in Caribbean countries over the weekend, moved slowly on Monday along Cuba’s south-western coast.
Wind and rain buffet eastern Cuba as Tropical Storm Fay nears the island after killing at least five people in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Fidel Castro turned 82 on Wednesday, still a world figure even though he has not been seen in public since falling ill two years ago.
A Cuban group painted a grim picture of the human rights situation in the island nation, saying in a report it was ”very unfavourable”.
Cuba has approved what is believed to be the world’s first registered lung cancer vaccine and is offering it to Cuban and foreign patients.