Cuba

Agustina del Carmen Castro Ruz, the youngest sibling of Fidel and Raul Castro, has died in Cuba. She was 78.

Agustina Castro died Sunday at a hospital in Havana due to complications from a recent surgery following a fractured hip, sister Juanita Castro said.

She told The Associated Press that Agustina had been in poor health for more than a year.

Ivica Dacic this week traveled to Cuba to participate in the 22nd session of the Ministerial Council of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS).

After arriving in Havana, the Serbian first deputy PM and foreign minister met with ACS General Secretary June Soomer.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - United States President Barack Obama has announced that he is putting an end to the wet foot-dry foot policy, instituted more than 20 years ago by then-President Bill Clinton, in which any Cubans that reached US shores in any manner were allowed to stay and given residency.

U.S. President Barack Obama on Jan 12 ended a decades-old policy that allowed Cuban migrants who arrived illegally on U.S. soil to stay.

In one of his final acts before leaving the White House, he scrapped rules allowing those fleeing communist Cuba and reaching American territory a fast track to permanent resident status.

Two firms signed a deal on Jan. 5 for the first commercial exports in half a century from Cuba to the United States, a new step in the countries' historic rapprochement.

Cuban company CubaExport signed an agreement to sell charcoal to U.S. firm Coabana Trading for $420 a ton, the communist island's state newspaper Granma said.

Google and the Cuban government signed a deal Monday allowing the internet giant to provide faster access to its data by installing servers on the island that will store much of the company's most popular content.

The European Union and Cuba on Dec. 12 signed a deal to normalize ties that had been blocked for decades by human rights concerns under revolutionary icon Fidel Castro.

Cuba had been the only Latin American country that did not have a so-called "dialogue and cooperation" deal with the EU covering issues such as trade, human rights and migration.

Cuban President Raul Castro has pledged to uphold his brother Fidel's socialist revolution at a massive rally in honor of the communist icon before his burial.

Tens of thousands of flag-waving supporters recited the oath on Nov. 3 with Raul Castro at the Revolution Plaza of Santiago de Cuba, the cradle of Fidel's guerrilla struggle.

The Metropolitan Archbishop of Kalavrita and Aegialias Anmvrosios penned an open letter to prime minister Alexis Tsipras on Thursday, condemning him for comparing the Greek Revolution of 1821 with the Cuban civil war of 1959, which he called a national crime and disgrace, and criticizing the extravagance of the premier’s “unnecessary” trip to Cuba in his post script.

In the wake of my previous piece in this column, "Why the Turkish left hates Erdoğan but loves Castro," the Cuban Ambassador to Turkey, Mr. González Casals, wrote an open letter to me and various other journalists.  It was quite critical, I must say, if not even furious.