Cuba

NEW YORK - Serbian First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic met with Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla on Monday, on the sidelines of the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

Bulgaria has lost to Germany 1:3 (16:25, 15:25, 25:23, 17:25) in a match of the Volleyball Men's World Championships Poland 2014.

After losing the Pool F match late on Wednesday, Bulgaria's national team lost the chance for making it among the top 6.

The CIA tortured al-Qaeda suspects "until the point of death" by drowning them in water-filled baths, Britain's Daily Telegraph reported on Sept. 8, ahead of the publication of a U.S. Senate report on interrogation techniques.

Fidel Castro “betrayed” his country, Cuban-American actor Andy Garcia has said during an interview with Hürriyet.

Garcia, whose family fled Cuba when he was three-years-old and never stepped foot on the island except Guantanamo, will reprise his role in the Turkish drama, “Kurtlar Vadisi” (The Valley of the Wolves), after nine years. 

The United States and the United Kingdom have spied on Turkey, German weekly magazine Der Spiegel has reported, citing documents provided by U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Yet another revolutionary tradition has been broken in Cuba: A lawmaker voted "no" in parliament.
     
And it wasn't just any lawmaker.
     

Serbia's Foreign Minister, Ivica Dacic, said that Serbia is about to appoint 20 new ambassadors, including to US and China, in the next four months.

The initial plan was to appoint ten new ambassadors to posts in July. However, Dacic told the daily newspaper Danas on August 8 that there had been a delay after the ministry realised the number needed to be doubled.

BELGRADE - The 20th Nisville Jazz Festival will take place in Nis from August 14-17, and its program will include 560 musicians from 20 countries, organizers announced at a press conference in the Cultural Centre of Belgrade (KCB) on Friday.

Russia could reopen Cuban spy base

MOSCOW -- During last week's visit of President Vladimir Putin to Cuba, a preliminarily agreement was reached to reopen a Russian "intelligence base" in that country.

The facility was operational during the Cold War as the main location for spying on the United States, writes the Moscow-based daily Kommersant.

BNP Paribas pleaded guilty Monday to US criminal charges of violating sanctions on Iran and Sudan for eight years and was fined a record $8.9 billion.