HAVANA (Reuters) - A 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck near Guantanamo city in eastern Cuba on Saturday, sending residents fleeing into the streets but a local government official said there were no casualties. A spokesman at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay reported no damage there. "It's all calm. There's no damage and no victims either," said a ...

A moderate earthquake and smaller aftershock rattled houses and nerves in eastern Cuba on Saturday near the U.S. holding facility at Guantanamo Bay. No damages or injuries were reported. The quake, with a preliminary magnitude of 5.6, struck just after 1 p.m. EDT (1700 GMT ...

The Obama administration still wants to buy a prison in northwestern Illinois even if it's not used to hold Guantanamo Bay detainees. A Thursday letter from the Justice Department to Republican Congressman Don Manzullo says the department would seek to purchase the facility in ...

The White House is nearing a bipartisan deal with US lawmakers to close the Guantanamo Bay prison by putting more detainees on trial before military commissions, a report said Friday. The prospective deal would allow military tribunals to try alleged September 11 plotters and other key terrorism suspects in a sharp reversal of White House pledges for civilian trials, the ...