Cuba's Raul Castro dismisses harsher US tone under Trump

Cuban president Raul Castro has denounced US president Donald Trump's tougher line on relations with Havana, calling it a setback but promising to continue working to normalise ties between the former Cold War rivals.

Cuba's Raul Castro dismisses harsher US tone under Trump

Cuban president Raul Castro has denounced US president Donald Trump's tougher line on relations with Havana, calling it a setback but promising to continue working to normalise ties between the former Cold War rivals.

Mr Castro's comments to Cuba's National Assembly were his first on Mr Trump's June announcement of a partial rollback of the Cuba-US detente achieved by then-president Barack Obama.

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