Cuba News

Dozens of detainees have joined a hunger strike at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, bringing the number refusing food to 128, US officials say.2.9

The number of hunger strikers at the Guantanamo US 'war on terror' detention camp has increased to 128 in recent days and 18 are being force-fed, the US military said.2.9

When Cuba's Fidel Castro and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez took to the airwaves for a six-hour presidential chat show late last month, their chummy relationship was on display.

UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. World Summit on poverty and reform that opens today was supposed to be a watershed moment that breathed new life into the troubled world body and shored up its beleaguered leader, ...

Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico A U.S. inquiry into alleged abuse at Guantanamo uncovered a climate of deep distrust between military police and interrogators, who were accused during the probe of giving ...

Mike Lopez, above, sharpens blades that will help to shear the small branches of pine trees in a field near Wautoma, Wis.1.3

Julio Csar Turbay Julio Csar Turbay, who died yesterday aged 89, was President of Colombia from 1978 until 1982, and negotiated the release of dozens of diplomats who had been taken hostage by terrorists in ...2.7

The US military said on Tuesday that 128 detainees at the US naval base prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been on a hunger strike and 18 are hospitalized.3.1

Mugabe off to Cuba HAVANA, Sunday | Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe arrived in Cuba yesterday, criticising the International Monetary Fund, even though the organization a day earlier defer... East African ...2.7

Audioslave has set October 11th as the release date for Live In Cuba, a DVD documenting the band's historic concert in Havana, Cuba on May 6th, 2005.

Cuba announced Tuesday it would create an organization of doctors ready for dispatch to natural disasters around the globe as it continued to wait for a response to its offer to send physicians to the United ...1.3

More U.S. military prison detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, reportedly have joined a month-long hunger strike, with some being forced to take nutrition.

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has signed into law a bunch of constitutional amendments restricting freedom of movement, undermining property rights, and creating a senate.4

WEST NEW YORK - Memories of Ernest Hemingway in Cuba remain vivid in the mind of a town man called "my Cuban son" by the legendary novelist.

Although it is unlikely they will be going anywhere, Havana doctors Luis Sauchay and Delvis Marta Fernandez prepare their knapsacks of emergency medical supplies for Katrina victims.1.3

THE former Taliban ambassador to Pakistan has been released from a US military prison in Cuba under an Afghan government reconciliation program, Afghan state television said ovenight.4.5

Top Cuban musicians will come to turn a college auditorium into a legendary Havana Club of '40s and '50s, which is full of passion and romance from the south.4.5

Louis Casuso told The Herald his client was detained two weeks ago and is now being held at a detention facility outside Miami-Dade County in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which ...1.7

Nearly a million Cubans have taken information-science courses in youth computing clubs, centers created in the country to train in the use of new information technologies.2.7

Cuban Parliament speaker Ricardo Alarcon criticized UN reforms efforts in a letter published here yesterday, saying they favour more powerful nations and "kidnap" the world body's original purpose.2.7

In George Orwell's prophetic novel 1984, the Rulers of Oceania, by their language of newthink and process of doublethink, convinced the masses that statements formerly considered irrational were rational.

A beleaguered Mike Brown said Friday he doesn't know why he was removed from his onsite command of Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, but he does know the first thing he'll do when he returns to Washington.2.1

Eight former Russian Guantanamo prisoners are going to sue the U.S. for holding them illegally, Ekho Moskvy radio station reported.2.9

Interrogators at Guantanamo Bay degraded and abused a key prisoner, forcing him to wear a bra and threatening him with a dog, military investigators claimed on Wednesday.2.7

In the late 18th century the company made "Nigger collars" for restraining slaves in America.2.7

Seven Latinamerican countries figure among the group with the highest level of human development in the world according to the annual report from the United Nations Development Program.2.7

The family of the Argentine-born Marxist leader will file lawsuits against companies profiting from his image The Cuban family of Ernesto "Che" Guevara has decided to put an end to what it considers abuse of ...2.9

Walker Evans, Havana Fruit Stand, 1933, gelatin silver print. Today's News September 8, 2005 An Exhibition on Color Photographs of America Opens L'Art Nouveau.1.3

Though summer is winding down, the "Havana nights" of the One Book, One Town program show no signs of cooling off.

KEY WEST - More than 50 Cuban migrants landed in the Florida Keys in recent days -- many of them rafters on homemade boats who likely took advantage of relatively calm seas to cross the Florida Straits, federal ...

Handmade cigar is rolled by Jose Suarez at his Bergenline Ave. shop in Union City, N.J. Jose Suarez is part of a dying breed.

Strangers in our home. People unseen, unknown, not recommended by anyone my husband or I knew.

Head of the Committee of Kuwaiti Families of Detainees in Guantanamo, Khaled Al-Oudah was recently quoted as saying three Kuwaiti detainees - Mohammad Al-Dihani, Sa'ad Al-Azmi and his son Fawzi Al-Oudah - are ...2.7

THE WORLD How Kadafi Went From Foe to Ally Common cause against Islamic radicals has woven U.S. intelligence ties with Libya, whose secular regime is still listed as a state sponsor of terrorism.

Cuban doctor Aleck Sagols examines Wendy Joy Whyte at the OWTU/Friends of Cuba Medicaid Facility at the union's headquarters on Circular Road, San Fernando, yesterday.2.9

Length: 25 Minutes Episode: 103 A TRIP TO CUBA Program Genre: How-To Closed Captioned: Yes Series Website: DAISY COOKS! WITH DAISY MARTINEZ Program Website: None listed.