ISLAMABAD - A group performance by Cuban artists was held here at National Heritage Museum on Friday featuring Cuban jazz group “A3” comprising Alberto Batista Hernandez (drums), Ana Maria caluff Oropesa (piano) and Ariel Jorge Pérez Caballero (trombone). A large number of music ...

Joseph Nye This month marks the 50th anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis — those 13 days in October 1962 that were probably the closest the world has come to a major nuclear war. US President John F Kennedy had publicly warned the Soviet Union not to deploy offensive missiles in Cuba. But ...

HAVANA  - Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya, a winner of the Sakharov human rights prize who challenged the island’s communist regime for decades, has died in a car accident the government and a priest said.Paya, 60, is the second key dissident to die in Cuba in less than a year.“His ...

NEW YORK - A movie about Cuban boat people was the biggest winner at the Tribeca Film Festival, taking in three awards after two of its actors went missing en route to New York. “So much happened in this movie,” said London-born Lucy Mulloy, the director of “Una Noche,” as ...

HAVANA (Reuters) - A Cuban cigar roller broke his own record on Tuesday by rolling the worlds longest cigar, a monster smoke that stretched 268 feet 4 inches (81.8 metres), or most of the length of a football field. Resting on tables, it sprawled through El Morro, an old Spanish fort overlooking ...

Cuban scientists are designing treatment plans and medicines by using nanotechnology to fight cancer, an official said. Marlene Porto, Director of the state-run Center for Investigation and Development of Medicines, told local newspaper Juventud Rebelde that Cuban scientists "are working on ...

Experts working at the site of a Cuban plane crash have recovered flight recorders and nine bodies of crash victims, a Cuban newspaper reported. The plane carrying 61 passengers, including 28 foreigners and seven crew members, crashed Thursday night in Cuba's central Santi Spiritus province. The ...

BEIJING (AFP) - Thailand's boxing gold medal hopes Manus Boonjumnong and Somjit Jongjohor both kept their Olympic dreams alive in the semi-finals here on Friday. Reigning champion Manus produced an at times ragged performance in beating Cuban light-welterweight Roniel Iglesias 10-5 while Somjit ...

HAVANA  - Moving to reduce dependence on costly food imports, President Raul Castro has authorized putting vacant farmland in private hands, communist Cuba's state media reported. "The maximum to be handed over to individuals who do not hold land is 13.42 hectares (33 acres), and for those ...