Michael Ortega Casanova is one of four people who were killed after people aboard a U.S.-registered speedboat allegedly opened fire on Cuba's border patrol.

Cuba has accused 10 people aboard a US-registered speedboat it intercepted off its coast on Wednesday of planning "an infiltration with terrorist aims". Border guards shot dead four people and injured the other six on the boat, the Cuban interior ministry said, alleging that those on the Florida-registered vessel had fired first.

By Alien Fernandez and Anett Rios HAVANA, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Havana residents are pulling old bicycles out of storage, patching up threadbare tires, and, in some cases, learning to cycle as fuel becomes increasingly scarce in Cuba following the U.

Historical conflicts between the US and Cuba span six decades and include Cuban Revolution, Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Top officials with Cuba’s Ministry of the Interior have unveiled for the first time the items they said were aboard a Florida-flagged speedboat that opened fire against troops in waters off

In a wide-ranging press gaggle, President Donald Trump spoke about the ongoing tensions with Iran and said the U.S. could engage in a "friendly takeover" of Cuba. Trump also lamented that he didn't like seeing former President Bill Clinton deposed in Congress' Jeffrey Epstein investigation.

The energy shortage was an overwhelming problem even before Mr Trump’s attention turned to Cuba. His threat to impose tariffs on any country which supplies Cuba with oil has become an effective embargo.

The Trump administration’s move to ease fuel shipments to Cuba’s nascent private sector is part of a plan to make the island more reliant on the U.S. for supplies, increasing Washington’s leverage to bring about political and economic change,