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A Chinese media, Chaoxian.com.cn, has reported that North Korea's Chosun Central TV recently released the survey result of a 'Happiness Index (Gross National Happiness) of each nation' and according to the survey, China tops the ranking, followed by North Korea while the U.S is at the bottom, ranked 203.

The airplane belonging to former Bulgarian Communist ruler Todor Zhivkov was submerged in the Black Sea near the city of Varna to attract scuba divers and tourists to the beaches of northeastern Bulgaria, a report said

New reforms give a ray of hope for Cubans who wish to travel abroad more freely.

Former Cuban President Fidel Castro derided U.S. action that killed Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden calling it an abhorrent deed.

A cache of classified U.S. military documents provides intelligence assessments on nearly all of the 779 people who been detained at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba.

Testimony unveiled on Sunday in documents released by Wikileaks from prisoners of the United States in Guantanamo, Cuba is not reliable because they were subjected to torture or other forms of coercion, or include false statements by other prisoners, an expert on the matter says.

Gunatanamo detainees verbalized violent threats against their captors, according to the latest set of classified files leaked to anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks.

The Communist government of Cuba said it will permit people to buy and sell their property for the first time since Fidel Castro took power of the island in 1959, as part of a raft of economic reforms.

Cuban strong man Fidel Castro has resigned from the Communist Party's central committee, formalising a gradual retreat from spotlight that started in 2006.

U.S. BUDGET CRISISDemocrats and Republicans will have to deal with the fallout from the past week's bitter partisan budget brinkmanship, regardless of whether it drives the federal government to shut down. We will assess who lost most from the crisis, with a Reuters/IPSOS poll on Tuesday. We will also feature an in-depth look at the performance of Republican House Speaker John Boehner, who had to...

International Business Times spoke to Dilshod Achilov, a professor of political science at East Tennessee State University, in Johnson City, Tenn., for his thoughts on Syria.

Pernod Ricard SA the world's No. 2 spirits maker, lost a U.S. appeals court ruling on Tuesday over the right to use the name Havana Club on rum sold in the U.S. market.

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Cuba attacked dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez in a nationally televised program on Monday, accusing of her being part of a cyberwar against the communist island by the United States and other enemies.

Guantánamo Bay is a bay located in Guantánamo Province at the southeastern end of Cuba. It is the largest harbor on the south side of the island and is surrounded by steep hills creating an enclave cut off from its immediate hinterland.

Eight new airports across the country will offer flights to Cuba, following President Barack Obama's decision to ease travel restrictions to Cuba early this year.

Exile for Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi is an option, according to U.S. Officials. While no world leaders have publicly offered asylum weeks into a crisis threatening to become civil war, the leaders of Venezuela and Nicaragua have shown support for Gaddafi in recent days.

Muammar Gaddafi launched a land and air offensive to retake territory in Libya's east at dawn on Wednesday, sparking a rebel call for foreign air strikes against African mercenaries they said were helping him cling to power.

Cuban President Raul Castro has admitted that plans to lay off 500,000 state workers by March are behind schedule and that the process will be delayed to help soften the impact of the cuts, state-run television said on Monday. The layoffs are a centerpiece of his reforms to modernize Cuba's Soviet-style economy, but the report said Castro told

The U.S., along with NATO, might invade Libya, claims former Cuban leader Fidel Castro in a column published in state media.

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