Gulf of Mexico

Four cruise lines have been sentenced by a US judge to pay a total of nearly $450 million for having used a Havana port nationalized by the Cuban government in 1960.    

Environmentalists criticized Mexico's state-owned oil company on July 3 after a gas leak at an underwater pipeline unleashed a subaquatic fireball that appeared to boil the waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

Cones of white paper sprout from the sea-salt-eroded pillars of one colonial building along Havana's seafront, elaborately painted curtains cascade from another while out front children play with an installation of multicolored hoses.

Turkey's Global Ports Holding (GPH) has announced it has signed a 15-year management agreement with the Cuban company Aries S.A. for the operation of the cruise port in Havana, Cuba.

In the Cuban capital of Havana over 4000 residential buildings have suffered as a result of hurricane Irma, BNR reported.

Cuban-American relations are rapidly normalizing with the two countries? decision to open embassies in each other?s capitals on July 20. This prompts the questions: Will the last stronghold of Marxism change? If so, to what extent will it change?

Nikolic meets with Cuban counterpart in Moscow

MOSCOW -- Serbia "cannot renounce its old friendships with Cuba and Russia," Tomislav Nikolic said on Friday as he met with Raul Castro in Moscow.

In conversation with his Cuban counterpart, the Serbian president said that the two nations share similar freedom-loving feelings and commitment to peace.

The United States and Cuba on Wednesday began talks on re-establishing diplomatic relations and eventually repealing a 53-year-old trade embargo, international news outlets reported.

The level of the US delegation to Cuba is the highest for the last 35 years, marking the next step in the historic thaw of relations between the Cold War-era adversaries announced last month.    

The Turkish capital has voiced its satisfaction with the announcement of rapprochement between Cuba and the United States, which have recently taken steps to bury half a century of enmity.

Cuba's parliament has approved a new law that seeks to make the country more attractive for foreign investors, Wednesday.

The text was published in the government's Official Gazette and will take effect in late June, according to international media reports.