CUBA

Only 5 percent of Cubans have had unrestricted access to the open Internet. That's about to change.

Cuban president Raúl Castro saluted the reopening of diplomatic ties with the U.S. but said Cuba wants to end the embargo now.

The longstanding embargo on the island nation will officially remain in place despite a historic diplomatic shift.

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio spoke Wednesday after to the announcement by the Obama administration that the U.S. will normalize relations with Cuba.

The Vatican has been working behind the scenes for months to achieve the US-Cuba rapprochement.

U.S. diplomatic relations with Havana will be restored in the biggest thaw in U.S.-Cuba relations in more than 50 years.

The embargo was put in place in 1959 after Fidel Castro led his anti-capitalist revolution in Cuba.

President Obama has announced a major shift in U.S.-Cuba policy on Wednesday, just hours after the release of U.S. prisoner Alan Gross.

The prize, an alternative to the Nobel, was awarded to Castro for "important contributions to emphasizing the need to eliminate nuclear war."

A newly released report says that the unsuccessful program needlessly jeopardized young Cubans.

The CIA operated "black site" detention facilities in nations around the world, where it held and interrogted terror suspects in the aftermath of 9/11.

Republican lawmakers cheered the Senate bill, but some say it's really meant to play to a Florida audience.

Here are six things to look for in the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee torture report, to be released Tuesday.

Felix Baez, 43, was one of 256 Cuban doctors and nurses who went to West Africa to treat Ebola patients.

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.