Cuba and Russia have signed a pact to collaborate in the telecommunications field, Prensa Latina...

US President Barack Obama has decided to distribute his Nobel Peace Prize money, 1.4 million dollars, among a variety of charities, including Bill Clinton's Haiti earthquake relief...

U.N. General Secretary Ban Ki-moon speaks during a joint press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso at Aso's official residence on July 1, 2009 in Tokyo, Japan. (Yuriko Nakao - Pool,...

Both sides will jointly develop information technology, Russian Deputy Communications Minister Dmitry Severov said here Friday after a meeting with his Cuban counterpart. At the meeting, Moscow and...

UNITED NATIONS -- Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he is heading to Haiti on Sunday for his second visit since the devastating earthquake to prepare for the upcoming donors conference to raise...

(FSY) topped the Puerto Rico Open leaderboard at 5 under after nine holes when first-round play was suspended because of darkness Friday in the...

A person walks over a gap in a damaged bridge after a strong aftershock in Las Mercedes, Chile, Thursday, March 11, 2010. Several aftershocks rocked the country as President Sebastian Pinera was...

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Sally Honse, a Glide resident who will be flying out Wednesday to help provide health care in Haiti, is collecting tents, tarps and lines to take with her.The rainy season has started in Haiti and...

From now until April 11, "The Orchid Show: Cuba in Flower" will highlight the buds from the tropical island nation. Jorge Sánchez, a Palm Beach-based designer, put togeher the exhibit in the...

MIAMI -- The training schedule for U.S. military operations in Latin American and the Caribbean is changing because of ongoing relief efforts in Haiti.U.S. Southern Command announced a revamped...

WINNIPEG, MANITOBA--(Marketwire - March 12, 2010) - Editors Note: A photo is available with this Press Release. Building effective and long lasting roads in the Dominican Republic has proven to be...

Michelet Louis holds his daughter Youdline, 5, while looking over a camp for earthquake survivors February 18, 2010 in Tabarre, Haiti. (John Moore, Getty Images) PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) —...

Trash and sewage are piling up at the squalid tent camps that hundreds of thousands have called home since Haiti's devastating earthquake - and with torrential rains expected any day, authorities are...

Washington — The U.S. Treasury Department is permitting technology companies to export online services such as instant messaging, e-mail and Web browsing to Iran, Sudan and Cuba to help people...

Red Cross workers build prototype homes in Port-au-Prince, Thursday, March 11, 2010. The Red Cross has initial plans to build about 50,000 homes to provide temporary shelter for displaced earthquake...

You hear much talk these days of ultra-hip boutique hotels springing up around the West Indies, which is all well and good, but nothing really beats staying in the kind of hotel that makes you...

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon inspects the site of the former headquarters of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) in Port-au-Prince, as rescue workers work to free a man...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Trash and sewage are piling up at the squalid tent camps that hundreds of thousands have called home since Haiti's devastating earthquake - and with torrential rains...

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will visit Haiti to meet the country's leaders and people left homeless by a January earthquake, Ban's spokesman...

Obama, Haitian President to Meet at White House The United Nations Environment Program warns Haiti's recovery process will be greatly constrained if the environmental degradation suffered during the...

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will make a one-day visit to Haiti on Sunday, his second to the Caribbean country since the 12 January earthquake, his spokesperson announced today. While in the...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The last of 10 American missionaries detained in Haiti on suspicion of kidnapping is facing a new charge. Judge Bernard Saint-Vil says Laura Silsby has been charged for...

"There are reports BA is planning to schedule extra flights but if we are not included in those plans, the region will suffer tremendously as the Caribbean will lose the business coming out of...

REGINA — As Mark Leier helped load medical supplies into a shipping container destined for Haiti on Friday, he knew just how much they were needed.Leier's fiancee, Yasmine Joseph, now lives in...

National Geographic Your Shot user Pamela O'Connor of Rochester, New York. The boy was "patiently waiting his turn but curious nonetheless," O'Connor said. "We were a medical team of doctors and...

Three Defense Ministry engineers dispatched to Haiti alongside Self-Defense Forces personnel for U.N. peacekeeping operations began Thursday examining the quake resistance of U.N. buildings damaged...

U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell said she wants agricultural trade with Cuba opened. In a letter the Washington state Democrat signed with Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., chair of the Senate Agriculture,...