A trip back in time in Cuba's Sierra Maestra mountains To traverse these ridgelines high in Cuba's Sierra Maestra mountains on horseback is to travel back a hundred years or more in time.

The United Nations defines a refugee as someone who is outside their country of origin and unable or unwilling to return due to a well‑founded fear of persecution, war, or violence. This definition is ...

A United Nations human rights official is urging the United States to lift its sanctions on Cuba, saying they are impacting ...

Millions of Cubans depend on remittances from some of their 3m-plus relatives abroad. Or, increasingly, they join the private ...

November 2025 - Volleyball coach Lang Ping from China and wrestling coach Raúl de Jesús Trujillo Díaz from Cuba today ...

On October 29, 2025, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution calling for an end to the United States’ decades-long embargo against Cuba ...

We’ll be unpacking an in-depth graphic-led Reuters story that explores the experiences of residents and farmers based along ...

Today in History for Dec. 13: In 304, St. Lucy is said to have cut out her eyes and sent them to a persistent but unwelcome suitor who said he was haunted by them. This sent the message that he must ...

On Nov. 25, 1963, the body of President John F. Kennedy was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery after a funeral ...

Cuba worked to rescue residents still stranded by unprecedented floodwaters in the wake of Hurricane Melissa, including a flooded river that had cut off one of the country’s most important east-west ...