HAVANA, Feb. 11 (UPI) -- Cuban security officials have detained a university student seen on a widely played Internet video asking pointed questions of a top Cuban lawmaker.

HAVANA, June 1 (UPI) -- Cuban leader Ricardo Alarcon said Friday that Fidel Castro is almost fully recovered from his long-term gastro-intestinal illness.

HAVANA, March 16 (UPI) -- Cuba's Fidel Castro is in good enough shape to return from illness to run for re-election to Parliament next year, said the head of the National Assembly.

HAVANA, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro did not attend lawmakers' end-of-the-year National Assembly, marking only the second time he was not present in 30 years.

SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- Cuban government officials are denying the country is unstable with leader Fidel Castro hospitalized and his condition a state secret.

WASHINGTON, July 4 (UPI) -- A report by the Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba urges the U.S. government to be prepared to aid efforts towards democracy when Fidel Castro dies.

CARACAS, Venezuela, May 26 (UPI) -- Cuba's speaker of parliament has called for the United States to extradite a Cuban dissident to Venezuela to face terror charges.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla., May 19 (UPI) -- Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on Monday said allegations by a leading Cuban government figure that he is urging his brother to invade the communist nation were the usual lies by Cuban officials.

MIAMI, May 19 (UPI) -- Florida Gov. Jeb Bush denied allegations by a leading Cuban government figure that he is urging his brother to invade the communist nation. Ricardo Alarcon, leader of the Cuban National Assembly, said Jeb Bush and others were working for a change by force