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A detailed schedule of the Roman Catholic leader’s activities released Tuesday underscores the diplomatic objectives of the landmark visit in September.

The U.S.-Brazil relationship turned frosty after NSA spying allegations broke in 2013, but now both sides are eager to move past the scandal, especially as Brazil's economy struggles.

About 5 percent of the population has Internet access in Cuba, but Twitter says it can still function as a text-messaged based service.

The detainees' transfer is the latest step by the Obama Administration in its push to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba.

The Obama administration is expected to announce an agreement with Cuba in early July to reopen embassies and restore diplomatic relations severed more than five decades ago, U.S. sources familiar with the matter said on Friday.

A collection of about 2,000 posters from the World War I era, considered to be one of the world's finest and amassed over more than a decade by a U.S. Army officer, will be sold at auction later this month, Guernsey's auction house said Tuesday.

The government and the leftist guerrilla group agreed to examine atrocities in the long-running conflict.

President Barack Obama had threatened to veto the measure that would restrict travel to Cuba had it passed.

The lab was equipped to produce three tons of cocaine and synthetic drugs every month.

Sen. Marco Rubio, a 2016 presidential hopeful, has said he'll use his power to block any Cuban ambassador nomination unless concessions are made.

"Today's news is further evidence that President Obama seems more interested in capitulating to our adversaries than in confronting them," Bush said.

The long-awaited move is the latest development in ongoing diplomatic talks between the two nations.

Sustained combat has jeopardized the peace process between the Colombian government and the FARC rebels in recent weeks.

Diplomats reported progress in the fourth round of talks between the two countries since the announcement that they would seek to restore relations.

The FARC called off the truce as representatives from the rebel group and the Colombian government were meeting for the latest peace talks in Cuba.

North Korea was taken off the U.S. state sponsors of terrorism list in 2008.

Stonegate Bank in Florida reportedly welcomed the Cuban government as its newest client, furthering thawing U.S.-Cuba relations.

Cuban migration to the U.S. has surged in recent months, and thousands of migrants have entered by way of Mexico.

During a historic visit to Havana, French President François Hollande called for an end to the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba, and affirmed France would remain “a faithful ally.”

Francois Hollande's visit marks the first by a French leader to the communist nation in over a century.

Hollande spoke at the inauguration of a memorial for slavery and the slave trade.