Cuba and America to exchange embassies

This item appears on page 62 of the August 2015 issue.

The US and Cuba announced on July 1 that they would open embassies in each other’s countries on July 20, the first time the nations will have had diplomatic relations since 1959. As of press time, the embassies’ locations had not been announced.

In May 2015 the US removed Cuba from its list of states that sponsor terrorism.