The United States and Cuba on Thursday ended their latest round of talks on normalizing relations and reopening embassies without results, but agreed to continue the negotiations on Friday, a State Department spokeswoman said.
Visiting French President Francois Hollande on Monday urged the U.S. economic sanctions on Cuba to be lifted as they have caused "so much damage."
Cuban leader Raul Castro confirmed here Wednesday that the remaining three agents of the Cuban Five, who had been imprisoned in the United States, were released and returned to their home country.
American surfer Benjamin Schiller Friberg on Thursday began a journey from Havana to Key West by stand-up rowing on a surfing paddleboard, local media reported.