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The U.S. government has repeatedly called on Cuba to release Alan Gross, who was supposedly unaware that what he was doing was illegal.

Many lawmakers have rejected provisions on transfer of detainees -- an essential step toward the closure of the Guantanamo Bay facility.

The spotlight now shifts from the jungles of Colombia to a well-guarded meeting hall in Cuba.

The Saudi Arabian national is the seventh prisoner to be released by the detention center at Guantanamo Bay in the past three weeks.

Cuban migrants commonly stop in the Cayman Islands, which does not grant asylum, and either repatriates them or sends them back to sea.

Latin America wasn't too excited about Obama's immigration announcement, with many newspapers burying the story in favor of other news or ignoring it all together.

The Colombian government and leftist FARC rebels have agreed to unspecified conditions under which the rebels will release General Ruben Dario Alzate and four others as soon as possible, government representatives said.

Cuba had sent 256 medical workers to Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, to help tackle Ebola and received global praise for the move.

Venezuela's economic troubles and high crime are spurring Cuban medical workers to abandon their posts en masse.

"The talks are suspended until these people are released," Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said.

The Turkish president piggybacked on a controversial claim by a Muslim scholar.

China, Africa's biggest trade partner, had come under fire for the level of its response to the Ebola crisis.

Two senators are hopeful about the possible release of former USAID subcontractor Alan Gross after nearly five years in a Cuban prison.

India and the U.S. were locked in an impasse for months, jeopardizing a pact that could potentially boost global trade by $1 trillion.

North Korea, shaken by a damning U.N. report on its human rights abuses, is employing Cuban diplomatic proxies to try and quash charges.

The U.N. committee also asked officials to elaborate on steps taken by the U.S. to comply with Obama’s "clear" guidance against torture.

A new Catholic Church to be erected in Cuba may show signs of the country's improving relationship with the Vatican.

The two adversaries may soon work side by side in combating the Ebola crisis, but collaboration has happened before -- quietly.

Cuba once again proves its "medical internationalism" is matched by no other country in the world.

The United States successfully derailed Venezuela's 2006 bid for the Security Council, but stayed quiet this time.

India in July blocked what would have been the first global trade reform in two decades.