Cuba

Cuba on Tuesday earned the distinction of becoming the first country to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of the HIV virus, an achievement that global public health officials said…
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Presidents Obama and Raúl Castro on Wednesday announced that embassies in Washington and Havana will reopen on July 20.
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Cuba's Deputy Foreign Minister Rogelio Sierra Díaz traveled all the way to Kazakhstan this week to promote increased trade and cooperation with that Central Asian republic. The two…
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The Spanish shipping line Balearia has obtained "the first license needed to operate between the United States and Cuba," according to a statement from the company based in Spain.
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Cuba is a global exemplar of organic, agroecological farming, taking place on broad swathes of land in and around its cities, write Julia Wright & Emily Morris. These farms cover…
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Throughout the last two decades of the embargo, Global Links has established a conduit of supplies reclaimed from hospitals in Pittsburgh, Maryland and Virginia.
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Polls after Elián showed growing Cuban-American support for changes in Washington's Cuba policy. And that's played a large role – maybe the largest role – in bringing us where we are…
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Kang Sok Su, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of North Korea's Workers' Party and the party's Secretary of International Relations, arrived in Havana last week. He was…
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Cuba's telecommunications company hastened this week to plug a leak that said that the state-run company, ETECSA, would "offer broad-band Internet access packages to Cuban homes on a…
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Cuba and China signed an agreement on economic and technical cooperation on the occasion of the one-day visit to Havana on Thursday of Deputy Prime Minister Wang Yang.
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