News: Cuba

We have started to collect the most important news related to Cuba in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

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• January 8th 2015 – August 12th 2014
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• March 1st 2014 – December 1st 2013
• November 30th 2013 – July 18th 2013
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• February 21st 2013 – December 7th 2012
• December 7th 2012 – September 9th 2012
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• June 5th 2012 – March 27th 2012
• March 27th 2012 – January 12th 2012
• December 31st 2011 – September 16th 2011
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• April 14th 2011 – January 31st 2011
• January 29th 2011 – November 4th 2010
• November 4th 2010 – July 25th 2010
• July 22nd 2010 – April 19th 2010
• April 18th 2010 – November 19th 2009
• November 18th 2009 – May 22nd 2009
• May 12th 2009 – January 2nd 2009
• January 2nd 2009 – August 19th 2008
• August 18th 2008 – February 27th 2008
• February 25th 2008 – August 28th 2007
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• November 1st 2006 – July 11th 2006
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Cuba: news

Cuba eases restrictions on dissidents

Thursday, February 25th 2016, 0:52

The Cuban government has eased travel restrictions for some of the country's best-known dissidents ahead of a visit to Cuba by President Obama.
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Obama to make historic Cuba visit

Thursday, February 18th 2016, 14:47

Barack Obama confirms he will visit Cuba in March as part of a broader trip to Latin America, only the second sitting US president to travel to the island.
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Pope's plane reports laser flash

Thursday, February 18th 2016, 12:06
related countries: Mexico

Crew on Pope Francis's flight from Cuba to Mexico last Friday noticed a laser beam from the ground, the airline has said.
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US-Cuba commercial flights to resume

Tuesday, February 16th 2016, 19:37
related countries: United States

The US and Cuba sign an agreement to resume commercial air traffic for the first time in more than 50 years.
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Cuba returns 'wrongly shipped' US missile

Saturday, February 13th 2016, 23:24
related countries: United States
related places: Havana

Cuba says it has returned to the United States an inert Hellfire missile that was wrongly shipped to Havana in June 2014.
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Pope in historic Russia church talks

Saturday, February 13th 2016, 5:50
related countries: Russia

Pope Francis and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill call for restored Christian unity between the two churches at historic talks in Cuba.
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VIDEO: Pope Francis visits Cuba and Mexico

Saturday, February 13th 2016, 5:22
related countries: Mexico

Pope Francis is in Mexico for a week-long trip.
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Farc to 'stop recruiting minors'

Wednesday, February 10th 2016, 17:10
related places: Havana

Farc rebels announce at peace talks in Havana that they will stop recruiting minors, a move they say is another step on the road to peace.
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Pope set for historic Patriarch meeting

Friday, February 5th 2016, 15:20
related countries: Russia

Pope Francis is to hold a historic first meeting with Patriarch Kirill, the head of Russian Orthodox Church, in Cuba.
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Cuba to have broadband home internet

Monday, February 1st 2016, 17:22
related places: Havana

Cuba announces it will launch residential broadband internet services in two areas of its capital, Havana.
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US Hellfire missile winds up in Cuba

Friday, January 8th 2016, 5:19
related countries: United States

An inert US Hellfire missile sent to Europe for a training exercise was wrongly shipped on to Cuba, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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Guantanamo detainees sent to Ghana

Thursday, January 7th 2016, 3:56
related countries: Ghana, United States, Yemen

Two Yemeni detainees held at the controversial US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been transferred to Ghana, the Pentagon says.
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VIDEO: I saw Castro’s tanks roll into Havana

Wednesday, January 6th 2016, 1:47
related places: Castro, Havana

The day revolution came to the streets of Cuba
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Cuban migrants allowed passage to US

Tuesday, December 29th 2015, 1:53
related countries: United States

Central American nations will allow some 7,000 Cuban migrants stranded in the region to continue towards the US.
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Pope urges solution for Cuban migrants

Sunday, December 27th 2015, 18:50
related countries: United States

Pope Francis calls on Central American countries to show generosity in dealing with the plight of thousands of Cuban migrants stranded in the region.
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VIDEO: Farc leader speaks exclusively to BBC

Thursday, December 17th 2015, 23:02
related places: Havana

Our correspondent in Havana, Will Grant, was given an exclusive interview with Ivan Marquez, the leader of the Farc's delegation at the peace talks
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US-Cuba agree commercial flights deal

Thursday, December 17th 2015, 18:21
related countries: United States
related places: Havana, Washington

The United States and Cuba have agreed to restore regular commercial flights, in a deal that could jumpstart economic relations between the two countries.
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VIDEO: Cuba and the US: A year of change

Thursday, December 17th 2015, 5:17
related countries: United States

On 17 December 2014, US President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro announced the historic decision to re-establish long-frozen diplomatic ties.
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Cuban baseball defectors visit Havana

Wednesday, December 16th 2015, 11:44
related countries: United States
related places: Havana

A group of Cuban baseball players who defected and left to play in the US have been given a rapturous welcome during a short return visit.
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Why you can't hide from a Cuban doctor

Sunday, December 13th 2015, 0:18

But you can't hide from a Cuban doctor
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Cuba and US to restore postal service

Saturday, December 12th 2015, 2:39
related countries: United States

Cuba and the United States agree to restore a direct postal service, suspended 52 years ago at the height of the Cold War.
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Cuban cinema's new indie wave

Thursday, December 3rd 2015, 0:40

How film-makers are breaking the mould in Cuba
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Cuba doctors face fresh travel curbs

Tuesday, December 1st 2015, 19:47

Cuba reinstates controls on doctors willing to travel abroad saying its health services have been "seriously affected" by the loss of specialists.
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Nicaragua turns back Cuban migrants

Monday, November 16th 2015, 14:45
related countries: Costa Rica, Nicaragua, United States

Nicaragua sends back more than 1,000 Cuban migrants to Costa Rica, triggering a diplomatic spat between the two Central American nations.
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VIDEO: Cuba's first lady of ballet

Wednesday, October 28th 2015, 0:27

In 1959, Prima ballerina Alicia Alonso founded the Cuban National Ballet following Fidel Castro's revolution.
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US still isolated at UN over Cuba

Tuesday, October 27th 2015, 18:26
related countries: United States

The UN votes almost unanimously to condemn the US embargo on Cuba, in the first such motion since the two nations restored diplomatic ties.
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VIDEO: Health tourism boom in Cuba

Friday, October 23rd 2015, 20:28
related countries: United States

Cuba's healthcare sector is enjoying a boom thanks to a thaw in relations with the United States and other countries.
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Cuba launches shark protection plan

Wednesday, October 21st 2015, 22:40
related countries: United States

The Cuban government, working with a US environmental group, announces a long-term plan to protect shark populations swimming in its waters.
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Cuban graffiti artist released

Tuesday, October 20th 2015, 21:50

Cuban graffiti artist Danilo Maldonado, known as El Sexto, is released after spending 10 months in prison for mocking the leaders of the revolution.
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What pigs protest says about Cuba

Monday, October 12th 2015, 23:55

What pig controversy says about Cuba
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US commerce secretary visits Cuba

Tuesday, October 6th 2015, 22:20
related countries: United States
related places: Havana

US Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker arrives in Havana for two days of talks focusing on measures to ease the impact of the US embargo.
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VIDEO: The making of Buena Vista Social Club

Tuesday, September 29th 2015, 23:29

Cuban music goes mainstream
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President Obama and Raul Castro meet

Tuesday, September 29th 2015, 16:41
related countries: United States
related places: New York

US President Barack Obama meets his Cuban counterpart in New York, the second time the two leaders meet face to face after announcing a thaw in relations.
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Castro calls for US embargo to end

Tuesday, September 29th 2015, 0:55
related countries: United States

The Cuban president tells the UN that normal relations with the US will only be possible if it lifts its trade embargo and takes other measures.
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VIDEO: Pope holds final Mass of US trip

Sunday, September 27th 2015, 21:47
related countries: United States
related places: Philadelphia, Curran

Pope Francis begins the final Mass of his nine-day trip to the US and Cuba at the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia.
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Pope wants 'revolution of tenderness'

Tuesday, September 22nd 2015, 17:06
related countries: Chile
related places: Santiago

Speaking at his final mass in Cuba in the city of Santiago, Pope Francis calls for a "revolution of tenderness".
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