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| US-Cuba ties: Washington and Havana to announce embassies | |
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| The US and Cuba will on Wednesday announce the opening of embassies in each other's capitals, a major step in re-establishing diplomatic ties severed in 1961, a senior US official has said. | |
| Relations had been frozen since the early 1960s when the US broke links and imposed a trade embargo. | |
| This was in response to the revolution in 1961 which brought Fidel Castro's Communist government to power. | |
| The US and Cuba agreed to normalise relations at the end of 2014. | |
| A US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the announcement on opening embassies was scheduled for Wednesday morning, Washington time. | |
| It is not yet known if US President Barack Obama will make the announcement himself or through a press release. | |
| In May, the US removed Cuba from its list of state sponsors of terrorism. | |
| Plans to resume ferry and flight services between the US and Cuba were also announced. | |
| Despite the new transport links, a Cuba travel ban is still in place for US citizens. |