Raul Castro seemed rattled. The Cuban president sent for the top American envoy in the country to address grave concerns about a spate of U.S. diplomats harmed in Havana. There was talk of futuristic “sonic attacks” and the subtle threat of repercussions by the United States, until recently Cuba’s sworn enemy.
Read moreThe State Department said Thursday that at least 16 American employees at the U.S. Embassy in Havana have experienced symptoms ranging from hearing loss to problems with balance from what may have been a sonic attack.
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U.S and Canadian diplomats in Cuba suffered mild traumatic brain and central nervous system injuries in a fall 2016 incident investigated as a sonic attack, published reports say.
Read moreThe Second Circuit dealt a legal blow Monday to the son of a Cuban counter-revolutionary who was assassinated in the 1970s.
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Offering insight into the soured diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba, a spokeswoman for the State Department cited retaliation as the reason that two Cuban diplomats were expelled this past May from their Washington, D.C., embassy.
Read moreInvestigators once tasked with examining the assassination of President John F. Kennedy claim in court that the CIA won’t respond to requests for records it might have on covert surveillance of the investigators.
Read moreCuba’s foreign minister rejected President Donald Trump’s new policy toward the island, saying Monday that “we will never negotiate under pressure or under threat” and refusing to return U.S. fugitives who have received asylum in Cuba.
Read moreCanceling normalized U.S.-Cuban relations after than a half-century of hostility — “effective immediately,” he said — President Donald Trump rolled back the clock Friday at a theater named after the leader of a disastrous plot to overthrow Fidel Castro.
Read moreA federal judge in Miami has set sentencing for July 11 for a sports agent and baseball trainer convicted of smuggling ballplayers from Cuba to the United States.
Read moreMiami Marlins shortstop Adeiny Hechavarria told a federal jury Friday he lied to investigators about knowing a key figure in an alleged Cuban ballplayer smuggling network linked to a Florida sports agent and a trainer.
Read morePresident Barack Obama is ending a longstanding immigration policy that allows any Cuban who makes it to U.S. soil to stay and become a legal resident, a senior administration official said Thursday.
Read moreGoogle 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.
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Fidel Castro, who led a rebel army to improbable victory, embraced Soviet-style communism and defied the power of 10 U.S. presidents during his half century rule of Cuba, has died at age 90.
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