'Cuba could talk with Obama'

Cuba's former leader Fidel Castro said on Thursday his country could talk to US president-elect Barack Obama, in Havana's latest overture to the incoming Democratic administration in Washington.

His remarks followed comments from his brother, President Raul Castro, who told a US magazine he could meet Obama in a "neutral place" to try to end Cuba's four-decade conflict with the United States.

"With Obama, talks could happen anywhere he wants," Fidel Castro, America's longtime Cold War enemy, wrote in the latest of a series of columns he has published in state-run media since falling ill in 2006.