Cuba News

Incoming music director Alan Gilbert would conduct if the orchestra goes to Cuba.

NEW YORK - Spanish-born journalist Jose Sobrino Dieguez has died at his Manhattan home.

Syracuse resident and Christian Brothers Academy graduate Madelaine Greacen will travel to Cuba later this month with an ecumenical group that will defy U.S. law to deliver humanitarian aid.

Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega, more than other leaders in the region, has waged an aggressive campaign against the media and considers journalists enemies to his government, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Wednesday.

The former owner of a defunct Allegany County restaurant plead guilty Monday to stealing more than $46,000 in sales tax revenue he collected from customers over a three year period, the state Department of Taxation and Finance reported.

Spanish legislators voted Thursday to change a law that let judges indict Osama bin Laden and Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, narrowing its scope to cases with a clear link to this country and yielding to criticism that Spain should not act like a global cop.

Marian Miller was a big-picture person. A beloved Native American storyteller, Miller loved the Seneca Indian stories 'of how things came to be,' says Joseph Bruchac, a fellow storyteller and author from Greenfield Center, Saratoga County.

The old adages 'Like father, like son' and 'Chip off the old block' are especially appropriate for Rafael and Christian Osorio.

American households lost $1.3 trillion in net worth in the first three months of this year, thanks to declining stock prices and home values, the Federal Reserve reported last week.

The European Union agreed on Monday to help the administration of President Barack Obama "turn the page" on Guantanamo, saying individual EU nations will take detainees from the American prison in Cuba.

This July 2005 file photo originally provided by the Army Corps of Engineers shows an aerial view of two causeways built on the northeast coast of the island of Babeldoab, the largest of Palau's more than 300 islands.

One of three Guantanamo Bay detainees transferred by the Obama administration to Saudi Arabia had been implicated in the murder of an American.

Three days before Christmas in 1946, Havana's Hotel Nacional was closed for a private meeting.

Four Guantanamo Bay detainees have been released and resettled in Bermuda, U.S. officials said Thursday.

The United States has won an agreement to transfer up to 17 Chinese Muslims from the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay , Cuba, to Palau, a sparsely populated archipelago in the North Pacific, according to a statement released by Palau to The Associated Press on Wednesday.

Tiny Cuba Lake in Allegany County came up as a big winner Thursday in the battle for federal economic stimulus money, winning $7.4 million to end wastewater problems that have been polluting the small but popular vacation spot for years.

Jun. 6--WASHINGTON -- Walter Kendall Myers spent more than two decades deep in the bureaucracy of the U.S. State Department until this week, when federal authorities accused him of a life of intrigue and espionage as a clandestine agent for one of the United States' longtime antagonists: the communist government of Cuba.

The arrest of Walter Kendall Myers and his wife, Gwendolyn Steingraber, is considered by some has the worst spy arrest since FBI agent-turned-Russian spy Robert Hanssen.

The U.S. has returned the body of a Guantanamo detainee who apparently committed suicide to his native Yemen.

After two days of intense negotiations, the Organization of American States agreed Wednesday to lift a cold war provision that suspended Cuba from the group but also accepted a list of conditions, backed by Washington, that Havana would have to meet before being allowed to return.