Cuba confirmed talks with the Trump administration amid an economic crisis after Venezuela oil was cut off. President Miguel Díaz-Canel cites aim to resolve differences.

A group of residents of a city in central Cuba have taken to the streets and partially destroyed the local headquarters of the ruling communist party.

The FBI will send a ⁠team ⁠to Cuba to investigate an incursion ⁠by 10 Cuban exiles aboard a speedboat accused of provoking a gun battle ​with Cuban forces that killed half the infiltrators, Cuba said on Friday.

March 12 (Reuters) - Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez spoke by telephone to his counterparts from both China and Russia on Thursday, three days after U.S. President Donald Trump said the Communist island was in "deep trouble".

The Cuban immigrants sailed from the Florida Keys and wound up in a gunfight off Cuban shores. They were anti-Communist militants from fringe groups.

“Honestly, there’s a lot of fear” as Washington pressures other countries to ditch Cuba, a senior Caribbean official said.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel is expected to make a rare, televised announcement on Friday morning, and this comes after the government announced it would release 51 prisoners from the island. It's unclear what the announcement is,