Cuban revolutionary hero Juan Almeida Bosque to be buried in eastern CubaHAVANA — The remains of Cuban revolutionary hero Juan Almeida Bosque will be buried in a mausoleum for rebel fighters in the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba, the government announced Monday. Police say terror suspect detained in Pakistan is Swede who was held by US at Guantanamo BayISLAMABAD — A terror suspect recently detained in Pakistan is the same Swedish national once held by the U.S. at Guantanamo Bay, police said Monday. He and others in his group were allegedly trying to join al-Qaida in the country’s lawless tribal areas. Church members in US Virgin Islands fight back, hold gun-toting robber until police arriveCHRISTIANSTED, U.S. Virgin Islands — Members of a church congregation in the U.S. Virgin Islands have wrestled with a gun-toting robber and held him captive until police arrived. New Pentagon program gives Afghan detainees held by military the right to challenge detentionWASHINGTON — The Pentagon has begun putting into place a new program under which hundreds of prisoners being held by the military in Afghanistan will be given the right to challenge their detentions, a defense official said Sunday. 1 of Puerto Rico’s 10 most-wanted fugitives arrested for ‘07 killing of union leaderSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — One of Puerto Rico’s 10 most-wanted fugitives will be tried for allegedly killing the leader of a powerful sewer workers’ union following his capture in New Jersey. Thousands pay respects to Cuban revolutionary hero, Juan Almeida BosqueHAVANA — Tens of thousands of Cubans lined up Sunday to pay their respects to Juan Almeida Bosque, a vice president and hero of the country’s 1959 revolution whose death at the age of 82 further thinned the ranks of this communist-run country’s old-guard leaders. US starting new system for Afghan detainees to challenge their detentionWASHINGTON — The Pentagon has begun putting into place a new program under which hundreds of prisoners being held by the military in Afghanistan will be given the right to challenge their detentions, a defense official said Sunday. Head of Cuban-American National Foundation: One man’s journey is that of a people and an eraMIAMI — Francisco Jose Hernandez points to the boarded windows in his secretary’s third floor office. Days before, a drive-by shooter peppered the glass with bullets. Puerto Rico professors criticize ban on public high school books for coarse languageSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Several university professors in Puerto Rico are protesting a decision to ban five books from the curriculum at public high schools in the U.S. territory because of coarse language. Travel Channel’s No. 2 ‘Hottest Caribbean Escape’ in receivership, guests booked elsewhereSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — An exclusive resort in the Turks and Caicos Islands that catered to celebrities and offered personal butlers and a pillow menu has closed after less than two years of operation. Head of Cuban-American National Foundation forges new path among exiles as Cuba itself changesMIAMI — Francisco Jose Hernandez points to the boarded windows in his secretary’s third floor office. Days before, a drive-by shooter peppered the glass with bullets. Death of Castro’s revolutionary comrade Juan Almeida Bosque highlights aging Cuban leadershipHAVANA — The death of Juan Almeida Bosque, a vice president who was one of the last giants of Cuba’s 1959 revolution, plunged the island into mourning Saturday and was a stark reminder of the mortality of all of Cuba’s aging leaders — including brothers Raul and Fidel Castro. Thousands march for liberation of ‘Cuban Five,’ men arrested 11 years ago of spying in USHAVANA — Thousands of Cuban demonstrators are calling for the liberation of five men arrested 11 years ago for spying in the U.S. Cuba: Castro’s revolutionary comrade Juan Almeida Bosque dead of heart attack at 82HAVANA — Juan Almeida Bosque, a comrade-in-arms of Fidel Castro since the start of his guerrilla struggle more than a half-century ago, has died of a heart attack. Cuba says ‘Commander of the Revolution’ Juan Almeida Bosque dead of heart attack at 82HAVANA — Juan Almeida Bosque, a comrade-in-arms of Fidel Castro since the start of his guerrilla struggle more than a half-century ago, has died of a heart attack. The 82-year-old was one of several Cuban vice presidents and had been among only three surviving rebel leaders who still bore the honorary title “Commander of the Revolution.” Former top officials in Mexican Caribbean coast state to stand trial on drug chargesMEXICO CITY — A Mexico judge ordered eight former top police and prosecution officials in the Caribbean coast state of Quintana Roo to stand trial on charges of aiding drug cartels, the Attorney General’s Office said Friday. Cuba distributes private taxi permits, hoping dose of free-market can cure transportation woesHAVANA — Jose Obdilio Duran’s ‘57 Chevy has holes in its mottled floor, a passenger window that can’t be rolled up and no inside panels on its doors. But the 71-year-old retiree wants to put the old car to work — applying for one of the first taxi licenses this communist country has granted in a decade. British police investigate charges that spy agency MI6 was complicit in tortureLONDON — British police are investigating an allegation that the country’s MI6 overseas spy agency was complicit in torture, the second inquiry launched in recent months examining the conduct of the country’s spies. Pakistan: Swede believed once held in Guantanamo arrested in Pakistan over terror linksMULTAN, Pakistan — A Swedish citizen with the same name as a Swede who was arrested in Pakistan in 2001 and held for two years at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp was detained in Pakistan last month on suspicion of links to al-Qaida, police said Friday. US-based journalism watchdog group calls for end to harassment of Cuban bloggersHAVANA — A U.S.-based journalist watchdog group called Thursday for an end to what it described as “systemic harassment” of bloggers and independent journalists in Cuba, and urged the international community to step up its lobbying on the bloggers’ behalf. Pentagon lawyer hedges on January deadline for closing Guantanamo Bay prisonWASHINGTON — The Pentagon’s top lawyer on Thursday said the Obama administration remains committed to closing the Guantanamo Bay prison by early next year but stopped short of assuring it will happen. First batch of Uighur detainees at Guantanamo agree to go to PalauKOROR, Palau — Three Chinese Muslims detained at Guantanamo Bay have formally accepted an offer to take up new lives in the Pacific island nation of Palau and could be moved there as early as next month, lawyers say. 3 patients die in fire at hospital in southern St. LuciaCASTRIES, St Lucia — Fire swept through a hospital on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia on Wednesday, killing three patients even as others were rescued by neighbors who raced through the flames. Grenada sells hurricane victims $2,000 homes built with help from VenezuelaST. GEORGE’S, Grenada — Grenada has sold some 100 Venezuelan-built houses at a deep discount to people left homeless by Hurricane Ivan in 2004, the island’s leader said Wednesday. New Cuban law allows Internet access at post offices, but measure yet to be appliedHAVANA — Cuba has authorized public Internet access at post offices across the country, though it has yet to apply what would be a landmark loosening of cyberspace rules in a nation where information is strictly controlled. There she isn’t: Saddled with debt, Cayman Islands nixes beauty pageants till economy looks upSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The Cayman Islands is sacrificing beauty for bucks. At UN, Bill Clinton criticizes nations for withholding pledged aid for HaitiUNITED NATIONS — Former U.S. President Bill Clinton reprimanded wealthy nations Wednesday for coughing up just 3 percent so far of the hundreds of millions of dollars in aid they had promised for Haiti. Lawyers sue US to obtain contracts signed with journalists during Cuban spy caseMIAMI — A nonprofit law group is suing the U.S. government’s Office of Cuba Broadcasting, demanding it turn over a list of journalists whom it paid while they were reporting on the prosecution of five Cuban intelligence agents. Prison photograph circulating on Web shows suspected Sept. 11 mastermind inside GuantanamoSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The first photographs of the self-proclaimed 9/11 mastermind at Guantanamo Bay have cropped up on the Internet, and experts say the images of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed are being used by terrorist groups to inspire attacks against the United States. 6 US tourists charged in Antigua blame plainclothes cops for brawl over disputed cab fareSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A group of New York tourists said Tuesday that a brawl they blame on plainclothes police officers in Antigua has turned their Caribbean holiday into a nightmare. |
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