Edward’s fate in balance as Cuba backs aslyum bid

US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden won support from Cuba for his bid to seek asylum in latin America as he began his third week in limbo at a Moscow airport on Monday. Cuba, a key transit point from Russia on the way to Latin America, supported the leaders of Bolivia, Venezuela and Nicaragua, who have offered the 30-year-old fugitive a possible lifeline as he remains marooned in the transit area of a Moscow airport.