US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and political rivals such as Texan Ted Cruz united in a letter to NBA commissioner Adam Silver asking him to suspend all NBA activities in China until boycotts by businesses and telecasters are ended
Since the arrival of Donald Trump in the White House, Washington has toughened sanctions against Cuba, accusing it of aiding and abetting President Nicolas Maduro's government in Venezuela
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro scoffed at fresh EU sanctions, saying they made him "laugh" and accusing the European Union of doing the bidding of US President Donald Trump
Unbeaten World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder, at right knocking down Luis Ortiz in a 2018 victory, will face the Cuban again in November at Las Vegas in a title rematch, promoters announced Saturday
Former Cuban president Raul Castro gives a speech in front of his revolutionary brother Fidel Castro's tomb in January 2019
Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos speaks on company sustainability efforts on September 19, 2019 in Washington; Amazon is the latest company to be sued under a US law for profiting from property seized by Cuba's communist government
Havana's Jose Marti International airport is being claimed by Jose Ramon Lopez Regueiro, whose family owned it until it was nationalized in the 1950s
Former Cuban president Raul Castro gives a speech in front of his revolutionary brother Fidel Castro's tomb in January 2019
Migrants from Honduras wait in line at the Mexico-United States border crossing in Tijuana, Mexico on September 12, 2019
A Venezuelan delegate holds up a book referring to South American independence hero Simon Bolivar while US President Donald Trump addresses the UN General Assembly
Colombian President Ivan Duque, who has championed a hard line on Venezuela, speaks at a UN summit on climate change
The US Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on various companies for transporting Venezuelan petroleum to Cuba
The explusion of the Cuban diplomats came as the United Nations holds its 74th General Assembly in New York
A member of the Cuban army fumigates against the Aedes aegypti mosquito to prevent the spread of Zika, chikungunya and dengue, in Havana, on February 23, 2016
Cuba Gooding Jr. was accused of groping a woman in June.
A Royal Caribbean cruise ship, Majesty of the Seas, rescued seven Cuban migrants from danger at sea. The migrants’ boat reportedly malfunctioned during the journey and they pleaded for help.
Grace Mugabe (C) was one of the first to say farewell at the casket
Robert Mugabe's death has left Zimbabweans torn over the legacy of the anti-colonial guerrilla hero whose iron-fisted rule ended in a coup in 2017
Zimbabwe ex-president Robert Mugabe's family and the government squabbled over his burial on Thursday, with the place of the ceremony -- and even its date -- unclear after relatives snubbed a plan for him to be entombed at a national monument.Mugabe died in Singapore last week aged 95, leaving Zimbabweans torn over the legacy of a leader once lauded as a colonial-era liberation hero, but whose autocratic 37-year rule ended in a coup in 2017.
Multiple official media Twitter accounts were suspended during a live TV address by President Miguel Diaz-Canel in Cuba
The storm front is expected to push through the the Bahamas and Florida as it moves towards the Gulf of Mexico.
The body of Zimbabwe's ex-president, Robert Mugabe, arrived home on Wednesday to an honour guard in a country divided over the legacy of a former liberation hero whose 37-year rule was marked by repression and economic ruin.Mugabe, a guerrilla leader who rose to power after Zimbabwe's independence from Britain and governed until he was ousted by the military in 2017, died on Friday in Singapore, aged 95.
