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Cuba’s electrical grid suffered a partial collapse early on Wednesday, leaving the capital Havana and much of western Cuba in the dark, according to local media and eyewitness reports.

Cuba said it had reconnected its electrical grid and was gradually restoring power after a partial collapse on Wednesday left capital Havana and much of western Cuba in the dark, the latest incident in an energy crisis t...

Cuba on Monday confirmed the deaths of 33 people from mosquito-borne illnesses in recent months in an epidemic that has hit at least one-third of the population, according to official reports.

Haiti’s government said Tuesday that the death toll from Hurricane Melissa rose to 43, with 13 others still missing. Crews were still trying to reach people in the country’s southwest region, where landslides and floodwa...

Hurricane Melissa's confirmed death toll climbed to 44 on Thursday, according to official reports, after wreaking destruction across much of the northern Caribbean and picking up speed as it headed toward Bermuda.

This week, following a breakdown, the Havana Electric Company referred to a mysterious “Asticar power barge” that no energy sector authority had ever mentioned before.

The Cuban Energy and Mining Ministry said on Thursday 80% of the capital, Havana, had power and most of the country's energy grid had been reestablished 24 hours after it crashed, leaving 9.7 million residents in the dar...

Communist Cuba's National Electric Union said power was slowly being restored Wednesday evening on the Caribbean Island after the grid collapsed at 9:14 a.m. local time.

More than half of Cubans over the age of 15 neither work nor seek work, according to data published this Tuesday by the National Office of Statistics and Information (ONEI).

Cuba's labor minister denied there are beggars in the poor, Communist-run country in official testimony, prompting rare criticism by Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel of one of his own ministers on Tuesday.

Cash-strapped Cuba's grueling crisis shows no signs of improvement, Cuban Economy Minister Joaquin Alonso said on Monday, announcing growth fell 1.1% last year on top of a 10% decline since 2019, official media reported.

Two years ago a Russian company, Progress Agro, announced it would import machinery, fertilizer, and know-how to revitalize the mill, which once employed 2,000 people.

Cuban students clamored on Wednesday for further concessions to roll back a rate hike on internet data, saying a decision on Monday to offer them discounted access did not go far enough.

Several allied countries, including Cuba, signed a cybersecurity convention that, under the pretext of digital sovereignty, could facilitate censorship and state control in authoritarian regimes.

Daily blackouts averaging four hours or more have become the new normal across Cuba's capital of Havana, an unsettling sign of a still-unresolved energy crisis as the sultry Caribbean summer sets in.

Cuba's telecoms company ETECSA said on Wednesday that it had begun to restore cellular service following an outage that appeared to impact various parts of the capital Havana and outlying provinces.

Russia said its businesses would invest more than $1 billion in long-time political ally Cuba by 2030, Cuba's presidency said on Thursday, promising a lifeline for the communist-run Caribbean island amid a gruelling econ...

Cuba is pinning its hopes on attracting more visitors from Communist ally China as part of a last-ditch bid to revive a sputtering tourism industry devastated by renewed U.S. sanctions under the Trump administration and...

Cuba on Tuesday arrested high-profile dissident Jose Daniel Ferrer for violating the terms of his parole just three months after releasing the activist from jail as part of a Vatican-brokered deal.

The measure aligns with the Mexican government's decision to repatriate migrants stranded in its territory, including those of Cuban origin.