GENEVA, Switzerland, March 28 (UPI) -- The United Nations in Switzerland is calling on countries to end practices of torture and profiling in the struggle to counter terrorism.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- Fidel Castro's resignation as Cuba's leader wouldn't affect the U.S. embargo on the island nation, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte said Tuesday.
HAVANA, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- Cuba is renewing its efforts to generate international pressure on the United States to end its long-standing embargo against the Communist island.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- The United States has offered to lift the long-standing embargo against Cuba if the country makes a democratic transition, The Miami Herald reported Thursday.
MEXCIO CITY, Mexico, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Mexican officials have ordered the closing of a U.S.-owned hotel in Mexico City at the center of a diplomatic face-off with Cuba.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Cuba will be allowed to send to a team to the United States for the World Baseball Classic this spring, The Washington Post reported Friday. The newspaper cited two unnamed sources in saying the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control
UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- The U.N. General Assembly, for the 14th year in a row, approved a resolution Tuesday to end the U.S. economic embargo on Cuba.
UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- For the fourteenth year in a row, the U.N. General Assembly approved a resolution Tuesday to end the United States' economic embargo on Cuba.
HAVANA, Oct. 19 (UPI) -- Cuba lauded last week's Iberoamerican Summit in Spain, where leaders said the U.S.-imposed "blockade" against the island should be lifted.
UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- The U.N. Security Council has delayed until Monday a draft resolution by France, insisting on continuation of the arms embargo imposed on Ivory Coast.
HAVANNA, Cuba, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- Cuba has begun to enforce a 10 percent tax on the exchange of U.S. dollars on the communist Caribbean island.
REYNOSA, Mexico, July 8 (UPI) -- Medical supplies and other equipment bound for Cuba has arrived in Mexico, again skirting the U.S. trade and travel embargo against the island nation.
HAVANA, June 22 (UPI) -- Cuba's communist leader denied U.S. allegations the island nation traffics human beings and promotes sex tourism, sources reported Tuesday.
KEY WEST, Fla., June 11 (UPI) -- Two Key West, Fla., residents were arrested and charged with violating the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba for organizing sailboat races to Cuba.
MEXICO CITY, May 6 (UPI) -- The Mexican government Thursday reminded Cuba of its debt of $450 million owed to the National Bank of Foreign Business, known as Bancomext.