Topic: Caribbean
HOUSTON (Reuters) - A Texas jury on Friday acquitted an 83-year-old anti-Castro Cuban exile and former CIA operative, considered an archfoe by Havana, of charges he lied to U.S. authorities about his role in bomb attacks against tourist areas in Cuba in ...
Fidel Castro is, at worst, equally evil as those - including those in the U.S. government - who?ve spent decades trying to murder him and overthrow his government. I?m not an expert on Castro and on Cuban history, but my impression is ...
The US has introduced tougher screening rules for passengers arriving by air from 14 nations which the authorities deem to be a security risk.Travellers from Nigeria, Pakistan, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Yemen and Cuba will be among those facing body pat-down searches and ...
The Obama administration declined Thursday to put North Korea back on a blacklist of countries supporting terrorism despite pressure from lawmakers to do so.In its report for 2009, the State Department kept the same countries on the list as it did in ...
Radical Muslim cleric is being flown back to JamaicaKenyan government officials made contradictory statements Thursday about radical Muslim cleric had been flown out of the country after a court ordered them to say why he was being held.The case concerns Jamaican-born Sheik ...
7 killed in Kenyan Muslim protest in support of radical clericAt least seven people were killed when police fired on about 100 Muslim youth in the Kenyan capital who on Friday protested the arrest of a radical Jamaican-born Muslim cleric whose teachings ...
Official: Fake bomb threat briefly delays JetBlue flight in Dominican RepublicOfficials say an anonymous bomb threat briefly grounded a JetBlue flight that was departing the Dominican Republic for Puerto Rico.Airline spokeswoman Jenny Dervin says the Tuesday morning flight to San Juan was ...
Three Guyanese and a Trinidadian face charges of plotting to blow up John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. There are a number of odd features about the plot, which the United States is treating very seriously. De Freitas, a Sunni, ...
Iran, which continues to plan and finance terrorist attacks in the Middle East and beyond, remains the " most active state sponsor of terrorism" in the world, the US government charged Thursday.Iran was lumped with Syria, Sudan and Cuba as terrorism sponsors ...
Today is Monday, Jan. 5, the 5th day of 2009. There are 360 days left in the year.Highlights in history on this date:1477 - Swiss defeat and kill Charles the Bold of Burgundy at Battle of Nancy.1762 - Tsarina Elizabeth of Russia ...
