TEHRAN, Jul 14 - Cuba’s first new train passenger cars in more than four decades set off on their maiden journey across the island on Saturday in what the government hopes will prove a total revamp of its decrepit railway system with help from allies Russia and China.
TEHRAN, May 16 - Gunmen who kidnapped two Cuban doctors in northeastern Kenya and whisked them to Somalia have demanded $1.5 million (1.35 million euros) for their release, police and government sources said Thursday.
TEHRAN, May 09 - Iran’s Foreign Ministry strongly condemned Washington’s sanctions on Cuba and the US administration’s decision to lift a waiver on Title III of the Helms-Burton Act that allows American citizens to file lawsuits against foreign companies using property seized in Cuba after 1959.
TEHRAN, Apr 26 - At least 1,300 mainly Cuban migrants fled on foot from an immigration detention center on Mexico's southern border Thursday in the largest mass escape in recent memory.
TEHRAN, Apr 26 - Cuba branded U.S. national security adviser John Bolton a "pathological liar" on Thursday for his allegation that it has troops stationed in ally Venezuela and said the latest U.S. sanctions would further hurt but not vanquish the Cuban people.
TEHRAN, Apr 17 - US National Security Adviser John Bolton has announced a series of new sanctions against Cuba and Venezuela as the Donald Trump administration is seeking to boost pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and the countries that support him.
TEHRAN, Apr 17 - The European Union and Canada have warned of reprisals after the United States for the first time allowed lawsuits against foreign companies operating in Cuba, including EU and Canadian firms.
TEHRAN, Apr 14 - Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel accused the Trump administration on Saturday of dragging relations with the United States to their worst level in decades and called on Cubans to strengthen the Communist-run country’s defences and economy.
TEHRAN, Apr 12 - Gunmen abducted two Cuban doctors near Kenya's border with Somalia on Friday as they were going to work, and shot dead a police officer guarding them, authorities said.
TEHRAN, Apr 06 - The United States on Friday announced sanctions on ships of Venezuela's state oil company and companies that link it to key ally Cuba, hoping to cut off vital lifelines for President Nicolas Maduro.
TEHRAN, Feb 21 - President Vladimir Putin has said that Russia is militarily ready for a Cuban Missile-style crisis if the United States is foolish enough to want one and that his country currently has the edge when it comes to a first nuclear strike.
TEHRAN, Jan 30 - Iran’s Foreign Ministry offered sympathy to Cuba over a tornado that has killed and injured around 200 people, expressing Tehran’s readiness to provide relief aid for the Latin American nation.
TEHRAN, Jan 26 -Russia says it will help Cuba overhaul its flag carrier, Cubana de Aviacion, which is hardly hit by persisting US economic sanctions against the Caribbean island country.
TEHRAN, Jan 2 -On the 60th anniversary of Cuba’s revolution, ruling Communist Party leader Raul Castro blasted the Trump administration for returning to an outdated path of confrontation with the island nation and of intervening in Latin America.
TEHRAN, Jan 1 - The President of Iran sent greetings to his Cuban counterpart on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of victory of the revolution in the Latin American nation.
TEHRAN, December 28 - Cash-strapped Cuba plans fresh austerity measures and will pressure the sluggish bureaucracy to tighten its belt and cut red tape to address weak growth, falling export earnings and rising debt.
TEHRAN, November 23 - A first batch of departing Cuban doctors is leaving Brazil as the countries wind down a program that sent more than 8,000 Cuban doctors to parts of Brazil where medical services are scarce.
TEHRAN, November 23 - Spanish premier Pedro Sanchez agreed with Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel to deepen bilateral political ties on Thursday, at the start of the first official visit by a Spanish leader to the Communist-run country in three decades.
TEHRAN, November 19 -Cuba has expressed interest in a plan by the European Union to create a mechanism to get round US sanctions against Iran, saying it hopes the mechanism would also help it sidestep the trade embargo that Washington has imposed on it for decades now.
TEHRAN, November 17 - The Brazilian Health Ministry said Friday it's holding meetings with the Pan American Health Organization on the exodus of thousands Cuban doctors and finding replacements.