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Leading Cuban dissident Martha Beatriz Roque is extremely ill due to complications from her diabetes and a liquids-only fast launched to protest the government, another dissident reported Thursday. (MiamiHerald.com)

A hunger strike by a Cuban dissident has been a hot story for Miami-based Spanish-language media, and concern about her health even reached the halls of the U.S. Congress, where an anti-Castro lawmaker warned that she was "close to death." (MiamiHerald.com)

"Pingpong diplomacy" thawed relations between the United States and China in 1971. Can "baseball diplomacy" help do the same for the U.S. and Cuba? (MiamiHerald.com)

Think you're obsessed with President Barack Obama and the many challenges he faces at home and abroad? (MiamiHerald.com)

Police are searching for the person or persons who left needles supposedly infected with the HIV virus in telephone booths (MiamiHerald.com)

El diario Granma, órgano del gobernante Partido Comunista Cubano (PCC, único), arremetió este lunes contra la ``malsana fobia'' de funcionarios estatales que obstaculizan el trabajo de la prensa e impiden el acceso a informaciones. (MiamiHerald.com)

El reconocido meteorólogo cubano José Rubiera asistió este lunes a una conferencia sobre la cooperación entre Estados Unidos y Cuba para enfrentar los huracanes, efectuada en la ciudad de Nueva Orleans. (MiamiHerald.com)

ABREU, Raimundo, de 78 años, natural de Cuba. Servicios hoy a las 11:30 a.m. en Woodlawn Park North. Funeraria Caballero Rivero Woodlawn, Miami. (MiamiHerald.com)

Cuba y Australia relanzaron este lunes sus relaciones diplomáticas de dos décadas, anunció el canciller Stephen Smith, quien realiza una visita oficial de dos días a la isla. (MiamiHerald.com)

A few weeks ago, Normando Hernandez Gonzalez got the kind of news that usually prompts cheers and emotion-filled toasts. The Cuban journalist and poet had been awarded the annual Freedom of Expression award by the Norwegian Writers’ Union. A delegation traveled from Oslo to the island nation to present the award, which included a prize of 100,000 kroner (about $15,775). (MiamiHerald.com)

Why doesn't President Obama have time for Cuba's pro-democracy opposition? (MiamiHerald.com)

Latin America's leaders are right to condemn the coup in Honduras -- but wrong to give Havana a pass on democracy. (MiamiHerald.com)

After nearly 50 years, America's cold war embargo against Cuba appears to be thawing at last. Earlier this spring, the Obama administration relaxed controls on travel and remittances to the communist island by Cuban Americans, and last week it agreed to open the door for Cuba's re-entry to the Organisation of American States. (MiamiHerald.com)

If the United States lifted all restrictions on tourist travel to Cuba, what corporations would net the biggest gains? Two: Orbitz Worldwide of Chicago, Ill., and GAESA, S.A. of Havana. (MiamiHerald.com)

Bill Clinton and George W. Bush recently had a face-to-face debate in Canada to discuss current affairs. The only Latin American nation mentioned in their conversation? Cuba. (MiamiHerald.com)

By John Andrew Prime * jprime@gannett.com * November 23, 2009 The cigar-chomping, no-nonsense general who lifted New Orleans from the depths of Hurricane Katrina in late 2005 thinks Cuba has some important lessons to teach the United States in storm-fighting, and he wants warmer relations with the nation's neighbor to the south for that reason.

HAVANA: Nearly 50 years after a botched US-directed invasion of Cuba, the communist nation said yesterday it is holding a military exercise next week to boost preparedness against any future US attack.

It has been reported from Algeria that a court has acquitted two former detainees of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba.

US President Barack Obama says the deadline set for the closure of the Guantanamo prison will be missed.

Despite is claims that progress is being made in closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, President Barack Obama acknowledged on Wednesday that the administration won't make the January 2010 deadline he set when he took office, according to Michael Carden of the American Forces Press Service .

Any goodwill Raul Castro enjoyed as Cuba's new leader has dissipated, according to a new poll indicating that more than four out of five Cubans surveyed inside the country are unhappy with its direction. (MiamiHerald.com)

Sixteen Cuban crewmen were stranded Thursday in a backwater African port, with little cash and owed up to 11 months of salary, after their cargo ship began listing with a possibly illegal lumber cargo aboard. (MiamiHerald.com)

A Miami sports agent sentenced to 15 years in a Cuban prison for trying to help Orlando ``El Duque'' Hernández and other baseball stars defect has been freed and will fly home Friday, his former business partner said. (MiamiHerald.com)

Any good will Raul Castro enjoyed as Cuba's new leader has dissipated, according to a new poll, which found more than four out of five of those surveyed in Cuba were unhappy with the direction of the country. (MiamiHerald.com)

Softball has been a passion for Michael Eizenberg since he was a child, but the 63-year-old has never been as excited about a game as the one played Monday on a children's ball field at a faded sports complex under Havana's warm Caribbean sun. (MiamiHerald.com)

Human rights advocate Edey Sánchez says he was arrested by national police agents following a five-hour search of his home that turned up an oven, a mixer and trays for making candy. (MiamiHerald.com)

Frustrated passengers protested last week at the local bus terminal when a departure was canceled because of mechanical problems with a bus and the fares weren’t returned. (MiamiHerald.com)

Twenty-eight people showed up Tuesday for the inauguraion of the Bloggers Academy of Cuba, held in the home of internationally known blogger Yoani Sánchez. (MiamiHerald.com)

Investigadores hispano-cubanos han hallado en Cuba una singular babosa marina que emite destellos luminosos cuando es importunada. (MiamiHerald.com)

Gritando consignas como ' Fidel, Fidel' y 'Abajo la gusanera', un grupo de seguidores del régimen cubano arremetió contra Reinaldo Escobar, esposo de la conocida bloguera Yoani Sánchez, mientras él esperaba en una esquina de La Habana por el policía que le diera una paliza a su esposa. (MiamiHerald.com)

HUNDIMIENTO/ Unas 800 toneladas de azúcar se hundieron en el mar tras un accidente marítimo en el que no se registraron pérdidas de vidas humanas ni lesionados . (MiamiHerald.com)