President Hu Jintao began a two-day visit to Cuba by agreeing to increase Chinese purchases of Cuban nickel and sugar, and send farm goods to the communist-run island...

A U.S.-Cuba trade group says the island has spent a record $536 million for American agriculture goods through the third quarter, already surpassing all annual amounts...

Fidel Castro said last Friday that the election of a new president will not bring change to the United States, but failed to mention Barack Obama by name.

Cuba welcomed its 2 millionth tourist of 2008 on Friday with a salsa band, strong mojitos and word that the island expects to set a record this year for foreign...

Cuba welcomed its 2 millionth tourist of 2008 on Friday with a salsa band, strong mojitos and word that the island expects to set a record this year for foreign...

Cuba is celebrating its entry into the Rio Group of Latin American nations as an example of futile U.S. efforts to isolate the island nation.

Fidel Castro looks thin and frail but alert in a photograph from last month posted on the Web site of the Russian Orthodox Church and obtained by the Associated Press...

Cuba replaced its foreign investment minister Wednesday in a high-profile Cabinet change, but did not explain the move.

Cuba on Wednesday presented a new book by Fidel Castro, who has not appeared in public since undergoing emergency intestinal surgery in July 2006 but who authorities...

Paloma neared Cuba as an extremely dangerous Category 4 hurricane Saturday, forcing authorities to evacuate tens of thousands of people and farmers to protect crops on...

Cuba’s communist leadership has long cast itself as David standing up to the U.S. Goliath and the crippling force of America’s punitive trade and travel...

Fidel Castro praised Barack Obama Tuesday as smarter and less warlike than John McCain, but stopped short of endorsing either U.S. presidential candidate.

Brazil’s state-run oil company signed an agreement Friday to explore for oil in deep Caribbean waters north of Cuba that officials in Havana say could contain 20...

Washington’s trade embargo costs Cuba an estimated US$232 million per year in lost foreign investment, and Havana is not hopeful that the nearly half-century-old...

Cuba and the European Union ended a five-year standoff on Thursday by signing an agreement that calls for EU members to send the island euro2 million (US$2.6 million)...

Cuban courts are getting tough on price gouging and other post-hurricane crimes, sentencing nearly one-fourth of people arrested so far to jail sentences, state media...

Fidel Castro says a “profound racism” in the United States will stop millions from voting for Barack Obama in next month’s presidential election.

Wayne Pritchard’s itinerary for his intercontinental boating adventure might stoke envy _ 13 days near Ottawa, a long weekend docked in Havana. The only trouble...

Just 90 miles off the coast of Florida, Cuba once played the role of America’s tropical playground. Ernest Hemingway wrote “The Old Man and the Sea”...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez made his second whirlwind visit to Cuba in less than a week and met behind closed doors for two and a half hours with ailing former...