via Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera — The Cuban foreign minister's comments come days after the US told the UN that ‘freedom will be coming’ to the country.

via NBC News Top Stories — NBC News' Andrea Mitchell sat down with Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla to discuss President Trump's speech at the United Nations, whether Cuba has been in talks with the U.S., and blackouts in the country.

via Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera — Marco Rubio made comments after Trump called Cuba a 'failed state' at the UN, prompting Cuban delegation to walk out.

via US news | The Guardian — Cuban delegates left the room during the US president's speech to the UN general assembly, where he called Cuba 'a failed state' and said the country 'will fall'. The US has maintained a trade embargo on Cuba for more than 60 years, and Trump's administration has stepped up pressure on the communist-controlled island nation. Continue reading...

via US news | The Guardian — Washington and Florida insiders are exploring lucrative deals for a post-communist Cuba crushed by ever-increasing US sanctions Spanish hotel chains . A Canadian mining firm . European shipping giants . Visa and Mastercard . Scores of foreign companies have been driven out of Cuba this summer over fear of being hit with potent, new secondary sanctions . Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, told Axios last month there are “no escape valves” from his unprecedented pressure campaign against the isl

Cuba's top diplomat said on Monday there are no talks underway with the United States, nor were there any plans for future negotiations.

via Home - CBSNews.com — Over the past six months or so, Cuba has undergone an unprecedented energy crisis amid President Trump's oil blockade. CBS News chief correspondent Matt Gutman spoke with Cuban Ambassador to the United Nations Ernesto Soberón Guzman about the challenges his country faces.

Cuba's national electrical grid collapsed again on Monday as authorities struggled to restore power following a nationwide blackout.

via Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera — Trump just escalated restrictions on Havana warning that Cuba remains a ‘threat to national security’.

via World news | The Guardian — New report denounces Havana and claims ‘campaign of subversion’ has infiltrated highest levels of US government As part of the Trump administration’s continuing attack on left-leaning groups, the US state department has listed several activists and organizations as “front groups and fellow travelers” for Cuba, including Hasan Piker and Amazon Labor Union founder Chris Smalls. In a 100-page report released on Monday, the state department denounces Cuba as the “capital of 21st-century communism”,

Cuban dissident artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara has arrived in the US after completing a five-year prison sentence, Marco Rubio said.

via Home - CBSNews.com — Senior defense officials are examining potential military options in Cuba, CBS News has learned. CBS News contributor Sam Vinograd has more.

via Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera — Cuba has often refused to accept deportations from the US. Where does that leave Cuban deportees under Trump?

via Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera — US President Donald Trump has placed the Caribbean island under a de facto oil blockade, straining its power grid.

US Republican administrations have long seen faith groups as a cornerstone for humanitarian aid and community trust.

DAVE SHERWOOD, of Reuters, reports on the plight of Cubans amid growing hardships...