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A bike shop in Havana is making bamboo bikes as part of a program funded by the Netherlands' embassy in the Cuba.

Cuba is reaffirming its alliance with Russia through a series of agreements considered key for the island nation, including on oil and fuel supply, the sale of wheat and the resumption of flights between both countries.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has met with Cuban leader Miguel Díaz-Canel in Havana, the last stop of a Latin American trip that also took him to Iran's two other allies in the region — Venezuela and Nicaragua.

For the first time in several years, deportation flights to Cuba are taking place.

After days of people forming long lines to get gasoline, Cuba’s fuel supply crisis has increased dramatically with authorities now suspending some activities and rationing sales.

Yudith Padron was flying out of Miami International Airport to Havana on Monday morning. She said in Spanish that she had chosen Delta over American Airlines because it was “cheaper to travel.”

Cubans are voting in National Assembly elections with attention focused on voter turnout amid a deep economic and migratory crisis.

After hugging her husband on Monday at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, Jenny Gonzalez said that she panicked when she felt like she couldn’t breathe during a Southwest Airlines flight.

Passengers of a Southwest Airlines flight headed to Fort Lauderdale received quite a scare on Sunday.

U.S. intelligence agencies say they cannot link a foreign adversary to any of the incidents associated with so-called “Havana syndrome,” the hundreds of cases of brain injuries and other symptoms reported by American personnel around the world.

A senior Biden administration official says 222 inmates considered by many as political prisoners of the government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega are on their way to Washington.

Cubans signed with Major League Baseball organizations and other foreign clubs will for the first time join domestic stars on the national team that will play in the World Baseball Classic.

Grappling with the biggest flood of Cuban migrants in decades, the United States reopened their long-closed legal pathway on Wednesday by resuming all visa services at its embassy in Havana.

Scarcity and economic turmoil are nothing new to Cuba, but soaring inflation and deepening shortages have made holiday shopping even more difficult for Cubans this year.

An incident involving the Cuban coast guard in plain sight of the U.S. embassy in Havana had people scratching their heads on Monday.

Cuban officials have announced that women boxers will be able to compete officially after decades of restrictions.

The Dominican Republic said it “profusely rejects” the denunciation of its crackdowns on Haitian migrants by a growing number of countries and human rights agencies.

Cuba says it will receive deportation flights from the United States that had been stalled in the pandemic — and said it was open to continuing dialogue with Washington.

U.S. and Cuban officials plan to meet in Havana on Tuesday to discuss migration policy.

Cuban and State Department officials have met in Havana to discuss the expansion of consular and visa services on the island.

A boat off northern Cuba traveling toward the United States sank Saturday after a collision with a Cuban coast guard ship, and at least five people died, Cuban officials said Saturday.

Hurricane Ian caused an island-wide blackout when it tore through western Cuba in late September.

Cuban officials say they've begun to restore some power after Hurricane Ian knocked out electricity to the entire island.

Hurricane Ian has knocked out power across all of Cuba and devastated some of the country’s most important tobacco farms when it slammed into the island’s western tip as a major hurricane.

Cuban voters have approved a sweeping “family law” code that will allow same-sex couples to marry and adopt as well as redefining rights for children and grandparents.

Hurricane Ian is nearing Cuba on a track to strike Florida as a Category 4 as early as Wednesday.

Cuba is holding a rare referendum on an unusually contentious law — a government-backed code that would allow same-sex couples to marry and adopt.

The Biden administration says the U.S. Embassy in Cuba will begin processing full immigrant visas in early 2023.

Hurricane Fiona has struck Puerto Rico’s southwest coast as it unleashed landslides, knocked the power grid out and ripped up asphalt from roads and flung the pieces around.

This year’s Miami Spice includes a Cuban-American restaurant in Miami’s Coconut Grove that MICHELIN recognized for its “good quality” and “good value cooking.”

Colombia’s new government and members of the nation’s last guerrilla group are moving toward restarting peace talks that were suspended three years ago in Cuba.

Cuba authorities say a deadly fire that has consumed at least half of a large oil storage facility in western Cuba and threatens to bring more power failures to the island's already fragile electric system has been largely controlled after nearly five days.

Flames have engulfed a fourth tank at an oil storage facility in western Cuba as the raging fire consumes critical fuel supplies on an island facing a growing energy crisis.

It's part of a series of large-scale efforts by Haitians to flee their troubled nation.

The young people come and go on their electric motorcycles at this highway outside Cuba’s capital where they perform stunts and talk about their two-wheelers, which would be largely silent if it weren’t for the music blasting from speakers.

Some drivers have been lining up for days — occasionally even more than a week — to fill up with diesel in Cuba.

The U.S. government is giving American Airlines permission to resume flights to five cities in Cuba outside the capital of Havana.

A year ago, thousands of people filled Cuba’s streets and public squares in the country’s largest outpouring of protest in decades.

Lorenzo Rosales Fajardo is a protestant pastor who remains in jail in Cuba after being sentenced to seven years in prison for simply participating in the historic July 11 protests a year ago Monday.

Invasive giant African land snails that can eat building plaster and stucco, consume hundreds of varieties of plants and carry diseases that affect humans have been detected once again in Florida, where officials say work has begun to eradicate the pests.

Cuban authorities say they have intercepted more than a dozen speedboats arriving from the United States this year — clashing with at least two of them and making some arrests.

Two members of a loose-knit group of dissident artists have been sentenced to prison in Cuba.

The State Department is preparing to compensate victims of mysterious brain injuries colloquially known as “Havana Syndrome" with six-figure payments, according to officials and congressional aides.

The first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season is headed toward Bermuda after killing three people in Cuba and flooding roads in Florida.

The Biden administration has renewed a license partially exempting Chevron from sanctions on Venezuela so it can keep operating in the oil-rich, socialist-run nation.

Cuban state news media say that a single vessel carrying 842 Haitians who apparently were trying to reach the United States has landed instead in central Cuba.

The United States might invite a Cuban representative to the Summit of the Americas next month, according to a U.S. official.

The Biden administration says it will expand flights to Cuba and lift Trump-era restrictions on remittances that immigrants can send to people on the island.

The explosion that devastated Havana's Hotel Saratoga and killed at leat 44 people also badly damaged Cuba's most important Baptist church, which is next door.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel announced a gas leak was to blame for the deadly explosion at the Saratoga hotel on Friday in Havana.

There have been reports of an explosion at the Saratoga Hotel in Havana on Friday morning.

Pope Francis is denouncing the “perverse abuse of power” on display in Russia’s war in Ukraine.

The U.S. government says it will resume limited processing of immigrant visas in Havana.

A panel of intelligence experts hasn’t identified a single culprit for apparent brain injuries reported by U.S. personnel that have been linked to so-called “Havana syndrome.

Russia has been threatening to expand military ties with allies Venezuela and Cuba amid rising tensions with the U.S. over Ukraine.

Cuban courts have wrapped up the hearing phase of six mass trials for people accused of involvement in the largest and most unruly protests on the island in decades.

U_S_ officials say the CIA believes it's unlikely that Russia or another foreign adversary is using microwaves or other forms of directed energy to attack hundreds of American diplomats and intelligence officers who attribute their brain injuries and other symptoms to what's come to be known as “Havana syndrome.”.

Plans are progressing for a meeting next year between Pope Francis and the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church following their historic encounter in Havana in 2016.

Cubans will now be able to travel to Nicaragua without any visa requirements.

Fernando González, the head of Caribbean newsgathering for The Associated Press, has died in Havana.

Orlando Gutierrez-Boronat is among the activists in South Florida who are showing solidarity with the Cubans who plan to protest on Monday.

Cuba has begun commercial exports of its homegrown COVID-19 vaccines, sending shipments of the three-dose Abdala vaccine to Vietnam and Venezuela.

A U.S. intelligence officer suffered symptoms linked to a series of directed-energy attacks known as “Havana syndrome” while traveling with Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns in India earlier this month.

Cuba has released the draft of a new family code that would allow same-sex couples to marry and adopt as well as give children greater participation in decisions that affect them.

Cuban health officials will begin COVID-19 vaccination efforts for children as young as two-years-old this month on the island.

Cuba’s government says it will recognize — and regulate — cryptocurrencies for payments on the island.

Remnants of Fred have entered the lower Gulf of Mexico amid forecasts it would regain tropical storm strength late in the weekend as it moves toward the northern U.S. Gulf Coast.

Forecasters say tropical depression Fred is slowly strengthening and could regain tropical storm status on Saturday.

Cuba is criticizing the United States and President Joe Biden for a series of statements by senior officials after the unprecedented protests on the island last week, accusing the U.S. government of seeking to justify a military intervention.

A report released Wednesday shows philanthropic funding to promote global human rights reached a record $3.7 billion in 2018.

The COVID-19 pandemic is slamming Cuba like never before, even as the country races to roll out its homegrown vaccines — the only locally developed shots widely used in Latin America.

President Joe Biden has ordered the State Department to create a working group to review U.S. remittance policy to ensure that money that Cuban Americans send home makes it directly into the hands of their families without the regime taking a cut.

Cuban officials have rallied tens of thousands of supporters in the streets nearly a week after they were stunned by the most widespread protests in decades.

Passengers landing at Miami International Airport talk about their experience in Cuba during the ongoing protests.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel has acknowledged shortcomings in his government’s handling of shortages and of neglecting certain sectors, but he is urging Cubans to not act with hate — a reference to violence during recent street protests.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel has acknowledged shortcomings in his government’s handling of shortages and of neglecting certain sectors, but he is urging Cubans to not act with hate — a reference to violence during recent street protests.

Graphic video out of Cuba recounts violent encounter with special units the Cuban government uses called "Boinas Negras," to intimidate protestors on the communist island.

Vito LaNave said his friend in Cuba was panicking. The South Florida resident said his friend in Havana sent him text messages asking him to tell friends in Miami that Cuban police officers were arresting, beating, and killing unarmed civilians.

Cuban officials say one person has died during demonstrations that have shaken the island in recent days by protesting over food shortages, high prices and other grievances against the government.

Vito LaNave said his friend in Cuba was panicking. The South Florida resident said his friend in Havana sent him text messages asking him to tell friends in Miami that Cuban police officers were arresting, beating, and killing unarmed civilians.

Large contingents of Cuban police are patrolling the capital of Havana following rare protests around the island nation against food shortages and high prices amid the coronavirus crisis.

Thousands of Cubans have marched on Havana’s Malecon promenade and elsewhere on the island to protest food shortages and high prices amid the coronavirus crisis.

Weather forecasters say a storm that has been lashing Florida over the past day has intensified into a hurricane.

Tropical Storm Elsa made landfall on the south coast of Cuba Monday afternoon, bringing flooding rains.

Tropical Storm Elsa is sweeping over western Cuba with strong rain and winds, and forecasters say it will move on to the Florida Keys on Tuesday and Florida’s central Gulf coast by Wednesday.

The Biden administration faces increasing pressure to respond to a sharply growing number of reported injuries suffered by diplomats, intelligence officers and military personnel that some suspect are caused by devices that emit waves of energy that disrupt brain function.

Cuban officials say that with just over a week before the start of the Americas Olympic qualifying tournament in Florida, the nation's team does not have visas to travel to the United States.

Hundreds of thousands of Cubans have begun receiving new, locally produced vaccines against COVID-19 in the past few days as the socialist government ramps up an inoculation campaign.

Cientos de miles de personas comenzaron a ser vacunadas Cuba como parte de una campaña masiva contra la COVID-19 con sus propios antígenos.

Desde el mes abril, Miguel Díaz-Canel es el nuevo líder del Partido Comunista de Cuba (PCC) un cargo que suma al de presidente de la República y aunque prometió “continuidad” y en el mediano plazo no se espera un cambio en el modelo unipartidista, la sociedad isleña -cada vez más interconectada- puja por encontrar espacios de representación para su diversidad.

Expertos en Miami coinciden en que, aunque Raúl Castro ya no liderará oficialmente el Partido Comunista de Cuba, sigue siendo el hombre más poderoso de la isla. Su ausencia parcial probablemente pondrá a prueba la estructura actual.

Experts in Miami agree that even though Raul Castro will no longer officially lead the Cuban Communist Party, he still remains the most powerful man on the island. His partial absence will likely test the current structure.

For most of his life, Raul Castro played second-string to his brother Fidel — first as a guerrilla commander, later as a senior figure in their socialist government.

Raul Castro says he is stepping down as head of Cuba’s Communist Party, ending an era of formal leadership by he and his brother Fidel Castro that began with the 1959 revolution.

This week’s Communist Party congress in Cuba could be the last with a Castro at the helm of the island's all-powerful political institution.

Technician Mayelin Mejias works with the "Soberana 02" COVID-19 vaccine at the packaging processing plant of the Finlay Vaccine Institute in Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. The director of the Finlay Institute said that Cuba hopes to immunize the countrys entire population this year with its own Soberana 02 vaccine. (Yamil Lage/Pool via AP)

Cuban authorities closed areas of Havana in an effort to curve the spread of the coronavirus. The government is also working on producing a Soberana 02 COVID-19 vaccine. Francisco Duran, the director of epidemiology, reported on Monday on Cuban TV that there were 45,361 coronavirus cases confirmed, including 300 people who died of COVID-19. According to Cuba’s Ministry of Public Health, Sancti Spíritus, Las Tunas, and Granma are the provinces with the least coronavirus infections. Eduardo Martinez, the president of BioCubaFarma, the government enterprise that is tasked with producing the vaccine, reported on Twitter that they are ready for the mass production of the Soberana 02 vaccine.

The structure on the Des Plaines River is a choke point between the Illinois River, which is infested with the invasive carp, and Lake Michigan. The next step is developing design and engineering specifications, expected to take three to four years and cost about $28.8 million. Under the new agreement, the Corps will pay $18 million and Michigan $8 million. Both states will collaborate with the Corps as it designs the complex mechanism, which will require thousands of pages of drawings. Government agencies, advocacy groups and others have long debated how to prevent them from reaching the Great Lakes, where scientists say they could out-compete native species for food and habitat.

A little girl wearing a face mask amid the new coronavirus pandemic gets her temperature taken at a police checkpoint, at the entrance to the province of Havana, Cuba, Monday, Aug. 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)MIAMI – Cuban aviation authorities were working with airlines to temporarily restrict the arrival of travelers from the United States in an effort to reduce coronavirus infections, the government’s newspaper reported on Monday. Cuba is also going to start requiring that travelers provide negative RT-PCR test results starting Jan. 10. The limits on travel arrivals, which will be effective starting Jan. 1, also apply to travelers from Mexico, Panama, The Bahamas, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Cuba partially closed international airports after detecting the coronavirus in March and reopened them in November.