Cuba

The U.S. Navy is investigating a complaint that seeks the evacuation of civilian and military lawyers from parts of the U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, following reports of cancer cases among personnel working on the trials of detainees there. 

A plan being drafted for closing the Guantanamo military jail will call for the transfer to U.S. prisons of possibly dozens of inmates deemed too dangerous to release, President Barack Obama's counter terrorism adviser said, setting up a fight with congressional opponents. 

The Cuban flag flew proudly over Havana's newly restored embassy July 20 as the US and Cuba relaunched diplomatic ties but swiftly cautioned that sharp differences lingered after five decades of enmity.

Good news out of Washington on Monday, as a thaw in relations between the United States and Cuba saw a Cuban flag formally raised over Havana’s embassy in the US capital for the first time in 54 years.

The United States and Cuba quietly ushered in a new era of post-Cold War relations on July 20, formally restoring diplomatic ties severed more than five decades ago and re-establishing embassies in each other's capitals.

The United States and Cuba abolish one of the last vestiges of the Cold War on July 20 when, in a move unimaginable just a few months ago, they restore diplomatic ties frozen for half a century.

For the first time since 1961, the Cuban red, white and blue flag will fly over Havana's newly upgraded embassy in Washington, just a stone's throw from the White House.    

Cuban President Raul Castro asked his US counterpart Barack Obama on July 15 to use his executive powers to "dismantle" the economic embargo placed on his island nation.

Pope Francis acknowledged on July 13 he had neglected problems of the middle class and said he was willing to have a dialogue with Americans who disagree with his criticism of capitalism. 

Turkey, the sixth most visited tourism destination in the world, has also become one of the most popular medical tourism destinations with more than half a million medical tourists visiting the country last year, according to data compiled by Anadolu Agency from the Association of Turkish Travel Agencies (TÜRSAB), the Health Ministry and private hospital figures. 

It is difficult to understand why there is so much jubilation in Cuba or among Turkey's romantic socialists over the Greek "oxi" (no) vote and the subsequent developments in Greece. Does Greece have an incredible amount of debt? It does. Should it pay it? It should. Can it compare the situation with the post-war situation and the conditions Germany and the World War II victors "agreed" upon?