India, March 15 -- Cuba has held talks with the US Government, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said, marking the first time the Caribbean country has confirmed widespread speculation about discussions with the Trump administration as it grapples with a severe energy crisis.

Diaz-Canel said the talks "were aimed at finding solutions through dialogue to the bilateral differences between our two nations.

International factors facilitated these exchanges." He did not elaborate on those factors, or provide any specifics about the talks, which US President Donald Trump has alluded to in the past. Cuba's relations with the US have been fraught for decades and punctuated by animosity, with the exception of a brief rapprochement during former ...