by Andrew Beatty and Sebastian Smith HAVANA, Cuba (AFP) — Barack Obama and his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro vowed Monday in Havana to set aside their differences in pursuit of what the US president called a “new day” for the long bitterly divided neighbors. Castro acknowledged there were still “profound” differences over Cuba’s human rights situation and the decades-old, crippling US economic embargo on the island. In a sometimes comic, sometimes tetchy press conference — […]





