Former Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr has been moved to a medium security prison, after being reclassified a lesser danger, his lawyer announced Wednesday.

Ottawa had resisted the 27-year-old's transfer from a Canadian federal penitentiary to a more comfortable provincial correctional facility for petty criminals and young offenders, calling it an attempt to lessen his punishment.

Most Americans would support an overhaul of restrictive U.S. policy toward Cuba, says a poll released Tuesday.

This is particularly the case in Florida, home to the largest community of people of Cuban-descent in the United States, according to the nationwide survey.

Cuba on Monday welcomed the European Union's decision to try to improve ties as "constructive," but still warned the EU had to be respectful of the Communist nation's sovereignty.

Cuba "will look at the invitation drawn up by (the EU) in a way that is respectful, constructive and in-line with its sovereignty and national interests," deputy foreign minister Rogelio Sierra said in a statement.

Negotiators for the government of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos arrived in communist Cuba Sunday to resume peace talks with their country's leftist rebels.

The team, led by former vice president Humberto de la Calle, is scheduled to sit down with representatives of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) for talks starting Monday following an 11-day recess.

Cuban President Raul Castro Tuesday railed against U.S. spying as he opened a summit of Latin American and Caribbean leaders, a group set up by Venezuela's late anti-Western leader Hugo Chavez to counter U.S. influence.

The meeting -- which began with a moment of silence for the late leader -- was hosted by Chavez's closest ally, communist Cuba, in a major diplomatic coup for a country Washington has tried to isolate through a five-decade-old trade embargo.

Dozens of dissidents have been detained in a "wave of political repression" ahead of a major international summit in Cuba, activists said Sunday.

The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) summit hosting heads of state from across the region provides opportunities for dissidents in the Americas' only one-party Communist-ruled state to try to raise their profiles, and seek world leaders' ears.

Cuban dissident Guillermo Farinas said Sunday he has been placed under house arrest to keep him from taking part in an opposition forum on the sidelines of a Latin American summit.

"Today is the third day they won't let me go out," Farinas told Agence France Presse by telephone from his home in Santa Clara, 280 kilometers east of Havana.

Leading Cuban dissident Jose Daniel Ferrer has been arrested after meeting with European diplomats in Havana, activists said Saturday.

Elizardo Sanchez, founder and leader of the illegal but tolerated Cuban Human Rights and National Reconciliation Commission, said Ferrer was arrested late Friday and that it was unclear where he had been taken.

The Cuban government adopted legislation to immediately freeze funds from foreign banks linked to terror groups, including al-Qaida and the Taliban, officials said Friday.

The decree, signed by President Raul Castro, stresses that the sanctions are part of Cuba's legal framework demonstrating its "commitment in the fight against money laundering, financing terrorism and the proliferation of weapons."

Thirty-one retired U.S. military officers urged President Barack Obama on Tuesday to make good on his promise to close the Guantanamo prison by speeding up efforts to transfer detainees.

"We appreciate your leadership this past year in recommitting to closing Guantanamo," the former generals and admirals wrote in a letter released by Human Rights First.