Wrestling, baseball-softball, squash on IOC list
And now for the gold-medal match. Three months after being surprisingly booted out of the 2020 Olympics, wrestling is back in the frame and will ...
Capsules of 8 sports bidding to make 2020 Olympics
Capsules of eight sports bidding for inclusion in the 2020 Olympics. The International Olympic Committee executive board on Wednesday is expected to ...
Canada businessman's corruption trial on in Cuba
A Canadian businessman caught up in a corruption probe in Cuba apparently went on trial Thursday, nearly two years after he was detained and his ...
AP PHOTOS: Cuba's LGBT community celebrates
A week of drag shows, colorful marches and social and cultural events in Havana culminates Friday with celebrations of the International Day Against ...
Seeking re-election, Imelda extends Marcos dynasty
Twenty-seven years after a public revolt ousted her dictator husband, Imelda Marcos is the Philippines' ultimate political survivor: She dazzled ...
Venezuela wrestles over truth of bombing claims
Hours after barely winning Venezuela's presidential election, the ruling party started to flood state media with accusations that opposition ...
Cuban dissidents pick up EU prize, 8 years later
Eight years after winning Europe's top human rights prize, members of a Cuban opposition group on Tuesday finally picked it up after securing ...
Cuba culture official demoted after NY Times op-ed
A leading Cuban cultural official said Friday that he has been demoted nearly two weeks after he published an opinion piece in the New York Times that ...
Cuban pianist Bebo Valdes dies in Sweden at age 94
Renowned Cuban pianist Bebo Valdes, a composer and bandleader who recorded with Nat "King" Cole, was musical director at Havana's legendary Tropicana ...
Argentine publisher reissues book on Pope Francis
The naming of Jorge Mario Bergoglio as Pope Francis has inspired the enthusiasm not only of many Roman Catholics, but also of a publisher planning to ...
Hand-picked Chavez successor registers in election
Thousands of cheering, crying admirers accompanied President Hugo Chavez's hand-picked successor Monday as he registered to be a candidate to replace ...
Fidel Castro laments loss of 'best friend,' Chavez
Retired leader Fidel Castro broke nearly a week of silence since the death of friend and ally Hugo Chavez, saying Monday that Cuba has lost its "best ...
Hugo Chavez, fiery Venezuelan leader, dies at 58
President Hugo Chavez was a former paratroop commander and self-styled "subversive" who waged continual battle for his socialist ideals. He bedeviled ...
Key dates in Hugo Chavez's political life
Key events in Hugo Chavez's life: Feb. 4, 1992 — Army paratrooper Lt. Col. Chavez leads botched coup against President Carlos Andres Perez.
Castro's 2018 retirement looms for Cuba, Miami
It's been more than 54 years since someone not named "Castro" led Cuba, and it will likely be five more. But now islanders and exiles alike have ...
Cuba's Raul Castro announces retirement in 5 years
Raul Castro announced Sunday that he will step down as Cuba's president in 2018 following a final five-year term, for the first time putting a date ...
Cuba's Diaz-Canel rose gradually to No. 2 post
The man tapped as the likely heir-apparent to Raul Castro is largely unknown off the island, but his rise to the country's No. 2 job was anything but ...
Cuba's Raul Castro raises possibility of retiring
Cuban President Raul Castro has unexpectedly raised the possibility of leaving his post, saying Friday that he is old and has a right to retire.
US lawmakers visit Cuba
A delegation of American lawmakers led by Sen. Patrick Leahy arrived in Cuba on Monday to gauge the island's economic changes and stress the ...
Correction: Cuba-Television story
In a story Feb. 10 about the network Telesur in Cuba, The Associated Press misspelled the name of the Committee to Protect Journalists. A corrected ...
Pope's bombshell sends troubled church scrambling
With a few words in Latin, Pope Benedict XVI did what no pope has done in more than half a millennium, stunning the world by announcing his ...
French daredevil climbs Havana hotel without net
A French daredevil who has scaled some of the world's tallest buildings conquered Cuba's famous Habana Libre hotel on Monday without ropes or a safety ...
For Chavez impersonator, cancer no laughing matter
It's an hour before showtime, and Gustavo Rios is transforming himself into Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. A makeup artist paints his skin a dark ...
Absent but omnipresent, Chavez a powerful symbol
While Venezuela's sick president recuperates from surgery behind closed doors in Cuba, at home he is more visible than ever. Iconic images of his eyes ...
Venezuela: Chavez is responding to treatment
Thousands of supporters of Venezuela's cancer-stricken president held rallies across the nation Sunday, hours before the government announced that ...
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