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He said that the U.S.is committed to pursuing “tough” issues, including human rights, with the Cuban government, and that further progress will be necessary for normalization of relations to proceed.

American Airlines announced Tuesday it will offer charter flights between Los Angeles international Airport and Havana, Cuba, beginning later this year.

Cuban TV carried the event live, broadcasting flattering biographical facts about secretary of state John Kerry and interviews with Cubans who praised detente with the US as a necessary and positive step for their country.

Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to Havana for fewer than 12 hours to officiate the reopening of the embassy that was closed in 1961 when the Eisenhower administration severed diplomatic ties with the government of then 34-year-old Fidel Castro. “It remains an...

The report notes, “Blanco is an award-winning poet who came to the U.S. with his Cuban exile parents from Spain when he was an infant”.

“There have been too many days of sacrifice and sorrow; too many decades of suspicion and fear”.

Cuban television has switched from cartoons to live coverage of the U.S. embassy flag-raising, broadcasting U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s arrival at Havana’s Jose Marti airport followed by a detailed biography of Kerry’s career.

Hundreds of Cubans mixed with American tourists outside the former U.S. Interests Section, newly emblazoned with the letters “Embassy of the United States of America”.

HAVANA Colombia’s government pledged on Sunday to de-escalate military actions against leftist guerrillas beginning July 20 if the rebels make good on their pledge of a unilateral ceasefire from that date.

On Friday, JetBlue officially started its direct flight from John F Kennedy worldwide Airport in New York to Cuba becoming the first major carrier in the U.S.to make the trip since restrictions on travel to Cuba were eased by the Obama Administration earlier in 2015.