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Havana - Cuba has agreed to begin negotiations with the EU on normalizing ties after a decade of differences and sanctions, Havana's foreign minister said Thursday.Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said his government "accepts with satisfaction" EU foreign affai...

Havana - The Cuban government has confirmed the theft of around 100 pieces from Havana's National Museum of Fine Arts. The theft is the first disclosure of such an event since Fidel Castro took power in the late 1950s.

Havana - Six luxury humidors fetched more than $1.1 million Saturday at the gala closing the 16th annual Cigar Festival in Havana.The humidors were packed with Montecristo and other prestigious cigars along with a painting by Cuban artist Zaida del Rio.As in pa...

Havana - Six luxury humidors fetched more than $1.1 million Saturday at the gala closing the 16th annual Cigar Festival in Havana.The humidors were packed with Montecristo and other prestigious cigars along with a painting by Cuban artist Zaida del Rio.As in pa...

Havana - A thick cloud of smoke hung in the air at Havana's annual cigar festival, where some 200 smokers took part in a novel contest to produce the longest unbroken ash.Many of the participants, foreigners as well as Cubans, finished with throbbing headaches ...

Havana - A thick cloud of smoke hung in the air at Havana's annual cigar festival, where some 200 smokers took part in a novel contest to produce the longest unbroken ash.Many of the participants, foreigners as well as Cubans, finished with throbbing headaches ...

Havana - Weeks of protests in ally Venezuela are reviving the concerns of many Cubans dependent on the largesse of the socialist Caracas government while buoying the opposition on the communist island.Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is facing his biggest te...

Havana - A Cuban spy who spent more than 15 years in prison in the United States returned home Friday to a hero's welcome, Cuban state television proclaimed in a triumphant broadcast.Fernando Gonzalez was released Thursday from a maximum-security prison in Ariz...

Washington - One of the so-called "Cuban Five" -- intelligence agents convicted in a US spy case that made them heroes in Havana -- was released from an Arizona prison Thursday and will be deported, officials said.Fernando Gonzalez, the second member of the group t...

Havana - A Russian warship was docked in Havana Wednesday, without explanation from Communist Cuba or its state media.The Viktor Leonov CCB-175 boat, measuring 91.5 meters (300 feet) long and 14.5 meters wide, was docked at the port of Havana's cruise ship area...