US flag raised over reopened Cuba embassy in Havana

August 15, 2015 00:34

The US has reopened its embassy in Cuba more than 54 years after it was closed, in a symbolic step signalling the warming of ties between both countries.

John Kerry, the first US Secretary of State to visit Cuba in 70 years, presided over the ceremony in Havana.The US flag was presented by the same US marines who brought it down in 1961.

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