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.

Planning to visit both Cuba and the U.S. this year, the pontiff played a key role in improving relations between Havana and Washington.

Religious leaders from Cuba and abroad huddled with couples in a crowded pavilion in a ceremony inspired by the mass wedding of more than 100 couples at the World Pride event in Toronto last June.

The number of educational "people-to-people" trips to Cuba for Americans has mushroomed.

Ferry services between Cuba and the United States were cut off in the early 1960s, following the Cuban revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power.

Omar Khadr, the youngest inmate ever to have been imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, spent 10 years there before being sent to Canada to serve the rest of his sentence.

The case marked the first time a global bank pleaded guilty to violations of U.S. economic sanctions.

The pontiff’s visit could herald a revival of Catholic practice in a society that has for decades shunned religiosity.

The Republican presidential hopeful tries not to laugh while answering, "Is Marco Rubio a twin?"

Two Cuban men are hoping to be the first non-Communist Party politicians in elected positions on the island in decades.

If the pontiff visits the island nation, he would be the third head of the Roman Catholic Church to travel to the country.

Tuesday's attack on an army platoon was the first major breach of a unilateral ceasefire declared by the rebels five months ago.

Cilia Flores, wife of President Nicolas Maduro, will showcase the country's socialist transformation "from the perspective of a sensitive woman."

Ibrahim al-Rubaysh was a former detainee at Guantanamo Bay and a veteran militant from his time in Afghanistan.

Latin American leaders praised Obama for ending decades of U.S. hostility towards the communist-ruled island.

At the Summit of the Americas, President Barack Obama became the first U.S. head of state to meet with his Cuban counterpart since 1956.