The United States took another step Tuesday to roll back restrictions on Cuba, opening financial channels for greater trade and clearing some obstacles to air travel.

Thirteen people died on Saturday after a small tourist boat sank amid strong winds off a remote island in the Caribbean Sea, a Nicaraguan government spokeswoman said.

Potential buyers have begun to emerge for the stalled megaresort project, which had been slated to open in late 2014 but shuttered and declared bankruptcy.

Certain changes have been made to the visa-waiver program by the Obama administration that would make it harder for travelers to enter the United States from Europe if they had dual citizenship from Iran, Iraq, Sudan or Syria, or had visited one of those countries in the last five years.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has added eight countries/territories to its Zika virus travel alert: Barbados, Bolivia, Ecuador, Guadeloupe, St. Martin, Guyana, Cape Verde and Samoa.

Ticket sales for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics and Paralympics are disappointing organizers.