The United States House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a huge spending bill altering the shape of US-Cuba policy and easing travel to the Caribbean island by Americans.
The United Nations is suggesting that the world\'s poorest countries move away from selling their natural resources and concentrate instead on manufacturing.
The Inter-American Development Bank has launched a new 600 million credit facility to help countries in Latin America and the Caribbean better cope with natural disasters.
French President Nicholas Sarkozy is to meet with lawmakers from Guadeloupe today, in an effort to end the ongoing strike against the high cost of living.
United States President, Barack Obama, has authorised the deployment of up to 17,000 extra troops to Afghanistan, saying they are to meet urgent security needs.
