PANAMA CITY: US President Barack Obama and Cuba's Raul Castro shook hands on Friday at the Summit of the Americas, a new milestone in efforts to shed decades of animosity between the two countries.
The two leaders -- who briefly shook hands once before, at Nelson Mandela's memorial service in Johannesburg in 2013 -- exchanged a few words as UN chief Ban Ki-moon and regional leaders looked on, before taking their seats at a Panama City convention center.
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