Cuba News

Havana, Jul 7 The eastern Cuban province of Holguin, venue of the central activities on the occasion of the National Rebelliousness Day on July 26, has achieved an infant mortality rate of 3.5 per each 1,000 babies born alive.

WestJet Airlines is expanding its reach outside Canada. Starting next winter, the airline will add U.S. routes to Lihue, Hawaii; Miami, Florida.

This country reached a tipping point in 2006. It wasn't any one event in particular, but according to Cuba's Office of National Statistics, the island's population of 11.2 million stopped growing that year, and dipped slightly.

Obama administration lawyers said Tuesday at a Senate hearing that detainees prosecuted by military commissions should have some of the same constitutional rights as American citizens tried in civilian criminal courts.

Miami Lakes resident Norma Flores still can't make sense of the unexpected death of her sister, Marisel Gutirrez, who was satisfactorily recovering from a cancer operation.

Apparently, Congress has detected some footnotes to Emma Lazarusa famous poem engraved inside the Statue of Liberty: a oeGive me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.a But dona t bother sending anyone released from detention at Guantanamo Bay.

A former Guantnamo detainee has launched a legal attempt to prevent the US from destroying evidence that he claims proves he was abused while being held at the detention camp.

Lawyers for an alleged Sept. 11 plotter held at Guantanamo want to inspect secret CIA overseas prisons, saying in court papers Monday the conditions in the so-called black sites may yield insight into a mental disorder that has raised questions about whether he is competent to stand trial.

Havana, Jul 2 Cuba had 828 nurses after the triumph of the Revolution, and now there are over 107,000 in a display of health indicators comparable to those of developed countries.

The head of the Archdiocese for the Military Services USA crossed between the Navy base at Guantanamo and Guantanamo province, worshipping in both places.

Once the nation's most secure prison, the federal lockup in southern Illinois has housed everyone from spies to a Colombian druglord to dapper mob boss John Gotti.

Peter Kent, minister of state of Foreign Affairs for the Americas, has had his trip to Cuba postponed.

President Barack Obama has ordered the detention facility closed next year. It holds more than 200 terror suspects whose cases are undergoing review for their potential release, prosecution or continued confinement.

Cuba is letting workers hold multiple government jobs for the first time under an overhaul of the island's labor system.

Lawyers for a Guantanamo detainee charged with terrorism crimes have asked the U.S. government to preserve overseas locations where he was subjected to "physical and psychological ill-treatment" at secret CIA prisons known as "black sites" until they can inspect them.

Attorneys for a Guantanamo Bay prisoner asked a federal judge Wednesday to exclude as evidence against him the statements he made during at least 57 interrogations since his capture, saying they were the result of torture and other coercion.

Bogota, Jun 30 A warm welcome was given to participants to the 1st Cartagena-La Habana Son Festival in Cartagena, a Colombian city that shares cultural similarities with Havana.

Angelenos with family in Cuba will have another option for travel today, when a Long Beach-based company kicks off nonstop flights from LAX to Havana.

To record his next hit El Micha, one of the rising stars of Cuba's reggaeton music blending reggae, Latin and electronic rhythms, just has to knock on his neighbour's door.

Approximately 229 detainees from "about two dozen countries" are still held in Guantanamo, according to the latest Pentagon figures, provided to AFP.