Cuba

Melissa kills 25 in Haiti, nearly 30 total as hurricane batters Caribbean

Dozens confirmed as killed across the Caribbean as the Category 5 hurricane sweeps across the region.

A man wearing a protective suit cycles on a street, as Hurricane Melissa approaches, in Kingston, Jamaica, October 27, 2025.
CUBAN PRESIDENT Miguel Díaz-Canel (center) and Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz (right) raise their fists at a march at which Israel was accused of committing genocide in Gaza, in Havana, last year.

What evil looks like: Why Trump must fight Cuban tyranny - opinion

An illustrative image of a passport with stamps from Israel's Ben-Gurion Airport.

Pro-Israel Moroccan journalist interrogated, deported by Cuba over Israeli passport stamps

A computer-generated image based on the sonar imaging of the underground structures off the coast of Cuba

Sunken Secrets: The Untold Story of Cuba's Ancient Underwater Structures


Trump's talks with Syria echo US embrace of Fidel Castro in 1959 - opinion

As Syria reconfigures its political order, we must not forget the hard lessons of Cuba’s transformation into a Cold War adversary.

THEN-CUBAN PRESIDENT Fidel Castro speaks as president of the Non-Aligned Movement at the UN in 1979. In 1959, the US mistook his revolutionary fervor for democratic potential and risks doing the same with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, says the writer.

US attack sub, Canada navy patrol ship arrive in Cuba on heels of Russian warships

A Canadian diplomat characterized the Margaret Brooke`s arrival as "routine and part of long-standing cooperation between our two countries."

Canadian navy patrol boat HMCS Margaret Brooke passes by Russian nuclear-powered cruise missile submarine Kazan and frigate Admiral Gorshkov, as it enters Havana's bay, Cuba, June 14, 2024.

Russian military intelligence unit may be linked to 'Havana syndrome', Insider reports

Symptoms of the ailment have included migraines, nausea, memory lapses, and dizziness.

 RUSSIAN PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin stands in front of members of Russian military units, the National Guard and security services, praising them for upholding orders during a mutiny by the Wagner Group, last month.

War in Gaza 'one of the cruelest genocidal acts' ever, claims Cuba's VP

Moussa Faki Mahamat, chairperson of the African Union commission, called for an immediate end to what he called the "unjust war against the Palestinian people."

Salvador Antonio Valdes Mesa, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (CPC) and vice-president of the Council of State of Cuba, and his party attend a meeting during a visit, in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KC

Iran, Cuba Presidents meet to discuss deepening ties

Cuba sees Iran as one of its closest friends in the Middle East.

 A street in Havana, Cuba.

Cuba stages pro-Palestinian march past US embassy in Havana

Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, now deceased, was famous for staging similar, but much larger demonstrations to protest US sanctions and meddling in Cuban affairs.

 People march nearby the US Embassy in support of Palestinians, calling for a ceasefire and for charging Israel with committing “genocide” in Gaza, in Havana, Cuba, November 23, 2023.

'Tropical Diaspora': The history of Jews in Cuba - review

Cuba did not conform to the behavior of a classical dictatorship in its struggle to chart its own path, but perhaps it is this nonconformity that makes it such an interesting country to study.

 THE MEDINA-RAMOS family in Havana, Cuba, in 1947, unaware that political circumstances would force them to leave their home in 1960 for Miami, Florida. Center, George Ramos and Isabel Medina.

North Korea blames US for 'grave terrorist' act against Cuban embassy

The embassy reopened in 2015 when Cuba and the US restored diplomatic ties.

 North Korea blames US for 'grave terrorist' act against Cuban embassy

WhatsApp to war: How Cubans were recruited to fight for Russia

Cuban authorities have been alerted of the extremity of the situation.

 Yamidely Cervantes, 42, shows an undated photo of her husband Enrique Gonzalez, 49, dressed in military uniform in a bootcamp in Russia, La Federal, Cuba, September 19, 2023

Juan Bradman, Cuban-Jewish exile whose life inspired a novel, dies at 90

Bradman never lost his bitterness over Castro’s takeover of the country, which replaced the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista with years of deepening repression and economic malaise.

Former Cuban president Fidel Castro.

Cuba arrests 17 for trafficking young men to fight for Russia in Ukraine

Cuba earlier this week revealed authorities were working to "neutralize and dismantle" the network, which it said operated both on Cuban soil and in Russia.

 Police in Cuba, 2013.