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A tropical storm warning has been issued for Grand Cayman Island as Ida gains strength over Caribbean waters.

St Petersburg News.Net Thursday 5th November, 2009 Russian and Cuban governments have signed four agreements for oil exploration and production on the Caribbean island, official media reported.

A senior Vatican official said Friday he has asked Cuba's government to allow the Roman Catholic Church more access to mass media, saying Cubans are a religious people and should be given broadcast access to their pastors.

HAVANA a " Cuba has cut two staple foods from the monthly ration books that most islanders depend on, edging closer to a risky full elimination of the decades-old subsidies.Potatoes and peas were dropped from the list of rationed foods this week, meaning Cubans can buy as much of the products as they want a " as long as they are willing to pay as ...

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In Havana on Wednesday, Cuban and Russian officials signed four international economic association contracts for hydrocarbons exploration and exploitation in discoveries that might be made north of the central and western part of the country.

A panel at the University of Michigan Law School is probing the future of U.S. security as the clock ticks down for the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

COLUMBIA - A recent cable news report that Guantanamo Bay detainees could be sent to South Carolina has provoked a roiling political debate, even though the concept of the transfer isn't new and doesn't appear imminent.

Cuba de Ayer is the wonderful creation of Jessica Rodriguez, who thought so highly of her mother-in-law's home-style Cuban cooking that she decided to open a restaurant.

Havana, Oct 30 The State Council of the Republic of Cuba has appointed Eduardo Delgado Bermudez as new extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador to the Holy See, Granma newspaper reported Friday.

There is such a thing as a free lunch, at least for a little while longer. For decades, Cuban workers have had access to free lunches provided by the Cuban government by more than 20,000 cantinas.

Jose Manuel Galego Montano, Cuban ambassador to the DPRK, and staff members of his embassy did a friendship work at the DPRK-Cuba Friendship Hwasong Co-op Farm in Ryongsong District, Pyongyang, Tuesday.

Amid shortages in the U.S., the announced plan to vaccinate Guantanamo Bay detainees against swine flu angered many.

A Guantanamo prisoner who has been on hunger strike for more than four years is in critical danger from malnutrition, his lawyers said Tuesday.

The defense secretary and attorney general are opposing an attempt to prohibit Guantanamo detainees from having civilian trials in the United States.Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Attorney General Eric Holder said in an Oct.

Havana - An official Cuban publication on Monday dismissed as "a bad taste commercial operation" a memoir by the younger sister of Fidel and Raul Castro that revealed she worked for the CIA in Cuba in the early 1960s.

Terrorism suspects held at the Guantanamo Bay naval base will soon get swine flu vaccines, despite complaints that American civilians should have priority, a military spokesman said Sunday.

KOROR, Palau a " Six former Guantanamo Bay detainees brought to Palau for resettlement have received a warm official welcome, but a plan to deport Bangladeshi workers could halve this Pacific Island nation's already-tiny Muslim community, making integration harder.The ex-detainees, who are Muslim ethnic Uighurs from a region in China's far west, ...

The habanero peppers, oranges and peanuts cost more at Cuba's free-market "agros" - farmers markets where vendors, not the government, set prices.