Cuba to free 553 prisoners after removal from US terror list

The White House said earlier that President Joe Biden was removing Cuba from the list in a deal that will see protesters imprisoned in the country released. The move will likely be overturned after the return to office next week of Republican Donald Trump, who reinstated Cuba's terror designation in the final days of his first term of office in 2021. "An assessment has been completed, and we do not have information that supports Cuba's designation as being a state sponsor of terrorism," a senior Biden administration official told reporters.