US keeps Cuba on terror black list

The United States kept Cuba on a black list of alleged state sponsors of terrorism for the 30th year running, the State Department said Tuesday in an annual report.
The Americas' only one-party communist regime is one of four countries perennially on the black list -- along with Iran, Sudan and Syria -- a distinction that comes with stiff trade sanctions, including blocks from receiving financial assistance from the US.
The report accused Cuba of harboring members of illegal armed groups, including Basque separatist group ETA and Colombian leftist militants FARC, as well as fugitives wanted in US courts.
The US designates both FARC and ETA as terrorist groups.