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HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters):  Deputy speaker of Britain's House of Commons and Labour MP Sylvia Heal has called for improved European relations with Cuba that were upset by human rights concerns in 2003. A crackdown on dissent ordered by Castro led the EU to shun talks with Cuban officials. read more.. |
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| MIAMI, USA (UPI): A Cuban exile militant has hired a leading Miami lawyer who represented fellow Cubans convicted of weapons charges, The Miami Herald reported Tuesday. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Communist Cuba remained one of the more important markets for American farmers in 2006 despite a decades-old trade embargo, a US-based organization that tracks the sales said on Wednesday. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): India and Cuba are forging closer economic ties through cancer vaccine research and oil exploration in the Gulf of Mexico, officials said this week. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): A senior Cuban official said on Tuesday that Fidel Castro is recovering "very well" but gave no indication when, or if, Cuba's ailing leader might return to public life. read more.. |
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HAVANA, Cuba (AFP):  It may be educational, but Cuban state television is unbearable, if you ask Ivette, a homemaker hooked on soap operas she watches on an illegal cable signal. "I love to see those fancy women, all done up in hairdos and makeup, and those studs," she said. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): India wants to strengthen economic ties with Cuba that already include the oil and biotechnology sectors, the visiting Indian foreign minister said, local media reported Tuesday. read more.. |
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| PARIS, France: Reporters Without Borders (RSF) took issue Tuesday with comments by Cuban communications minister Ramiro Valdes on Monday describing the Internet as a "tool for global extermination" and as a "wild colt" that needed to be tamed. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (UPI): Cuba's Communist Party has warned the island's populace against using or building makeshift satellite dishes, Granma newspaper reported. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Six months after surgery forced him to relinquish power, Cuban leader Fidel Castro is consulted on major issues but does not "interfere" in day-to-day governing, his brother and Cuba's acting president said. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Acting Cuban President Raul Castro said on Thursday his brother Fidel was improving and "on top of everything" in his first comments to the foreign press since stepping in for the 80-year-old Cuban leader six months ago. read more.. |
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| MIAMI, USA: The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) has expressed concern at the Cuban government’s ongoing policy against free speech and press freedom after learning of a recent court sentencing of an independent journalist. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): The Rev. Nerva Cot, the first woman bishop named by the Episcopal Church in a developing nation, said she will bring a feminine touch to leadership of her rapidly expanding congregation in Cuba. read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP): The health of Cuban leader Fidel Castro is steadily improving and he has begun eating food again, Venezuela's ambassador to Havana, Ali Rodriguez, said in a television interview on Thursday. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Cuba on Thursday deported to Colombia a notorious drug cartel boss whose extradition has been sought by the United States, a Cuban official who took part in the deportation told AFP. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Leading Cuban dissidents who are denied access to Internet at home now have their messages on websites thanks to the work of exiled friends and family abroad. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (UPI): Cuban officials have criticised a decision to show US-funded TV Marti on Spanish-language stations in Miami picked up by satellite in Cuba. TV and Radio Marti are officially banned in Cuba, though the signal can be picked up by illegal satellite dishes. read more.. |
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HAVANA, Cuba (AFP):  The old saying necessity is the mother of invention is put to the test in Cuba, because of a 45-year-old embargo that prevents Cuba from importing US goods. The US bans exports to the island and few Cubans have access to cars imported from elsewhere, read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Cuba criticized the United States on Tuesday for denying visas to Cuban intellectuals invited to a Soviet studies conference and barring American cyclists from competing in Cuba. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Former India one-day all rounder Robin Singh will form a coaching team to train players in baseball-mad Cuba where the sport is enjoying a revival. read more.. |
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HAVANA, Cuba (AFP):  Talk in Ernest Hemingway's former Havana watering hole often turns to the old man and the daiquiri and, at times, to the 45-year-old embargo that officially prevents US fans from tippling to his memory in the Cuba he loved. "We're not even supposed to be here," read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): The United States government is to step up its broadcasting campaigns in Cuba, along with North Korea and Iran, under President George W. Bush's new budget plans unveiled Monday. read more.. |
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| BRADES, Montserrat: Based on advice to strengthen transparent non-political links with Caribbean and regional neighbours, the governments of Montserrat and Cuba plan to explore ways of assisting each other. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (ACN): As part of the US economic blockade of Cuba, the American Hilton Hotel chain has announced a denial of bookings to Cuban delegations in all its facilities around the world. read more.. |
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| In response to Mike O'Rourke regarding "Cubans are so full of it", it might be a bit asking too much for one to be aware of what they are talking about before making such remarks. The US policy on Cuba is quite a hypocritical stance. read more.. |
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| With reference to "Embargo, at 45, still at forefront of US-Cuba relations", the Cubans are so full of it. Like ships from the rest of the world can't make it to Cuba. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Forty-five years after the United States imposed an embargo against communist Cuba, the sanctions remain at the forefront of relations between the two foes, even in the absence of the ailing President Fidel Castro. read more.. |
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| HOUSTON, USA (Reuters): The US government took another step on Wednesday to keep holding an anti-Fidel Castro militant, who is accused of bombing a Cuban airliner in 1976, without declaring him a terrorist. read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP): Cuban President Fidel Castro is having a festive time, his friend and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Thursday, dismissing rumors that Castro is dying, six months after surgery. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): A top Cuban official said Thursday he didn't expect any change in the near future in US policy toward the island, which is subjected to a 45-year-old US embargo. read more.. |
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HAVANA, Cuba (AFP):  The latest footage of Cuban President Fidel Castro appeared to support official claims his recovery from surgery is going well, though it remains unclear whether he would resume the leadership he handed to his brother Raul six months ago Wednesday. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): The United States admitted Wednesday it had no idea about Cuban President Fidel Castro's state of health, hours after Cuban television broadcast new pictures of its ailing communist nemesis. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Cuba's President Fidel Castro was shown on Cuban television Tuesday meeting with his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez in the first images of the ailing leader broadcast in three months. read more.. |
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| It never ceases to amaze me just how close minded and narrow people can be. There definitely is a need to respond to the negative and often incorrect 'facts' many Caymanians have about Cuba. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): The United States has refused to budge from its five-decade Cuba policy during Raul Castro's six months in power, despite world pressure and momentum in Congress for dialogue, experts say. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (ACN): Cuba and Antigua and Barbuda on Wednesday signed a sports cooperation agreement, which both countries view as a new step towards strengthening their bilateral ties. read more.. |
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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados:  The Barbados Commerce, Consumer Affairs and Business Development Minister, Senator Lynette Eastmond, held talks this week with Cuba’s Ambassador to Barbados, Pedro Garcia Roque. The two, along with other senior officials from the Ministry, discussed many topical issues. read more.. |
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WASHINGTON, USA (Bloomberg):  Charles Rangel, the chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, is betting that, with Cuban leader Fidel Castro in failing health and Democrats in control of Congress, lawmakers will scale back trade and travel embargoes on the communist island. read more.. |
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BRADES, Montserrat:  The Government of Montserrat and the Government of Cuba plan to explore ways of assisting each other in several areas. CM Dr Lowell Lewis says Cuba is keen to assist Montserrat with clearing up its backlog of 400 persons waiting for ophthalmology assessment, read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Issac Delgado, one of Cuba's most popular salsa bandleaders, has defected to the United States to pursue an international career, a former associate said on Friday. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Cuban President Fidel Castro last appeared in public six months ago, but the seclusion forced upon him by intestinal surgery has not kept him from the international limelight he cherishes. read more.. |
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HAVANA, Cuba (AFP):  Six months after President Fidel Castro handed over power to his brother Raul, Cubans are coming to appreciate a different and more pragmatic style of leadership, even though the siblings have stood side-by-side since the 1959 revolution. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): The number of tourists visiting Cuba dropped 3.6 per cent last year due to high prices and not political uncertainty over Fidel Castro's illness, travel industry sources said. read more.. |
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CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP):  A letter from Fidel Castro to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has revived the view that the ailing Cuban leader is hanging on and attentive to politics. Cuban Vice President Carlos Lage on Wednesday delivered the missive signed by Castro to his close ally Chavez, read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP): Cuba's Vice President Carlos Lage made a surprise visit to Caracas Wednesday to bolster his Communist regime's ties with its principal ally, the government of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): With little known about the condition of ailing President Fidel Castro over the past six months, Cuba has been abuzz with wild rumours, further fueled by speculation reaching the island from abroad. read more.. |
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| MIAMI, USA (AFP): Six months after Fidel Castro handed power to his brother Raul, the parties planned by exiled Cubans in anticipation of the regime's collapse have been shelved, as the younger Castro consolidates power, experts say. read more.. |
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WASHINGTON, USA (Bloomberg):  US Commerce Secretary, Carlos Gutierrez, has ruled out any easing of the US trade and travel embargo on Cuba until after all remnants of the Fidel Castro regime are removed from power. The US has restricted trade since Castro took power in 1959. read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (Bloomberg): Venezuela will grant Cuba access to the South American nation's first-ever satellite, due to be launched in September, as ties between the states deepen and the health of Cuban President Fidel Castro grows more uncertain. read more.. |
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| An article on Haiti that appeared in Time magazine in January 1973 – at the end of the dictatorship of “Papa Doc” Duvalier and the commencement of his son “Baby Doc’s" harsh rule – states: “There is also a sound on the city streets that to most urban Americans is unfamiliar: laughter.” read more.. |
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HAVANA, Cuba (AFP):  State-run television in communist Cuba prides itself on its educational programs and the social values of its homegrown soap operas but does not shy away from hits like New York Cops and CSI. The US series and the soap operas, draw a faithful audience. read more.. |
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| PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: Cuba clinched third place in the 2006/7 Digicel Caribbean Cup and US$50,000 prize money after a 2-1 win over Guadeloupe that was more convincing than the scoreline suggests. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): Two US lawmakers, a Republican and a Democrat, warned Tuesday that the United States was losing influence in Cuba at a critical time with leader Fidel Castro sidelined by surgery. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Cuba's armed forces, which run the Communist country's most efficient companies, joined a nascent public debate on future economic policy on Tuesday and appeared to take a stance opposed to full free-market reforms. read more.. |
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HAVANA, Cuba (AFP):  With power transferred to Fidel Castro's brother Raul, Cuban dissidents have begun testing the island's political waters after decades of ironclad rule, but found little hope of fundamental changes. "I don't see any light at the end of the tunnel," said Martha Beatriz Roque, read more.. |
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| EL PASO, USA (Reuters): An anti-Fidel Castro militant accused of bombing a Cuban airliner in 1976 pleaded not guilty on Monday to US immigration charges, the latest round in a long fight by the US government to keep him in jail. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): For a tiny Caribbean nation, Cuba has a big reputation for its sporting prowess but that is increasingly coming under threat. The impoverished Communist country has long failed to halt the flow of talent that escapes its homeland. read more.. |
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HAVANA, Cuba (AFP):  Unable to get original parts because of a 45-year-old US embargo, Harley-Davidson aficionados resort to ingenuity and Soviet truck parts to keep the decades-old US classics on Cuban roads. Cuban fans, estimate there are about 100 Harleys left in the communist-run state, read more.. |
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HAVANA, Cuba (AFP):  Wrapped in a figure-hugging sequined dress, the statuesque Chantal swayed languorously in the steamy Havana night during a transvestite show that reflected Cuba's slowly growing tolerance of homosexuals. While their lives are getting easier, they still face a lot of prejudice. read more.. |
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| MIAMI, USA (UPI): The US Department of Homeland Security has taken custody of 27 Cuban immigrants who landed on an island near Key Biscayne, Florida. The boatload landed on Boca Chita, 16 miles south of Key Biscayne, at about 6 a.m. Saturday. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Salomon Mitrani sat through his wedding ceremony. After all, at 84 years old he finds it hard to stand. By Cuban law, he has been married to his wife, Pilar, for 55 years, read more.. |
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HAVANA, Cuba (AFP):  Outside the US diplomatic mission, President Bush is portrayed as a bloodthirsty vampire, on a billboard to illustrate Cuba's claim that Washington supports terrorism. The communist government is waging a major campaign to demand the extradition of Luis Posada Carriles. read more.. |
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| PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: Trinidad and Tobago showed just why they were the Caribbean’s favourite side this past summer when they overcame a very strong Cuban side to reach the Digicel Caribbean Cup Final, where they will play Haiti for the right to be crowned champions. read more.. |
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| RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Bloomberg): Cuban President Fidel Castro's health is improving even as his situation remains "difficult" Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said during a speech in Brazil at the Rio de Janeiro state legislature. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (Reuters): US lawmakers, with an eye on reports of failing health of Cuban President Fidel Castro, said they intend in the new Democratic-led Congress to seek to ease restrictions on travel and trade with the communist island. read more.. |
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MADRID, Spain (Reuters):  Cuban leader Fidel Castro is making a "slow but progressive" recovery although his condition is serious due to his age, a Spanish doctor who has examined him said on Friday. Castro, 80, has suffered complications after undergoing surgery on his digestive system. read more.. |
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| PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (Reuters): Cuba has scraped into the CONCACAF Gold Cup finals after a goalless draw with Guyana in the Caribbean zone qualifying tournament. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Whether or not Cuban leader Fidel Castro is terminally ill, the provisional government he designated under his brother Raul has kept Cuba on a stable track in his absence, Cuba watchers said on Wednesday. read more.. |
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| QUITO, Ecuador (AFP): Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez rebuffed pessimistic news about ailing Cuban President Fidel Castro, saying here Tuesday that Castro was "doing well" despite some people longing to see him dead. read more.. |
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| MADRID, Spain (AFP): A Spanish newspaper reported on Wednesday what it said were fresh details about Fidel Castro's health, saying the treatment given to the ailing 80-year-old Cuban leader had unleashed serious complications. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Havana on Wednesday complained that the United States had refused for the first time to give travel permits to a US wrestling team that wanted to train in Cuba. US citizens are generally barred from spending money in Cuba. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): US President George W. Bush has extended for another six months a measure banning lawsuits by Americans whose property in Cuba was taken by Fidel Castro's government, the White House said Wednesday. read more.. |
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| PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: Cuba picked up their first win in the finals of the Digicel Caribbean Cup with a deserved win over tricky opponents St Vincent and the Grenadines. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): The latest rumor whispered on the crumbling streets of Havana is that ailing leader Fidel Castro cannot appear in public because he lost his hair - and his famous beard - to chemotherapy for cancer. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba: Dayron Robles, the World Indoor Championships silver medallists in the 60m Hurdles is among several Cuban athletes currently preparing for the upcoming indoor campaign, which starts in Europe later this month. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Cuban intellectuals are seeking an apology from the country's communist authorities for the reappearance of an official responsible for Stalinist-style cultural purges three decades ago. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Cuba said on Monday the United States should indict Luis Posada Carriles, a militant anti-Castro exile accused in the bombing of a Cuban airliner, for terrorism instead of minor immigration charges. read more.. |
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| QUITO, Ecuador (Reuters): Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro has been having problems with the healing of his stitches after stomach surgery last July, a diplomat said on Monday. read more.. |
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| PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: Digicel Man of the Match Jocelyn Angloma served up a spectacular match winner to give Guadeloupe maximum points in their opening game against Cuba in the Bobby Sookram Group in the Digicel Caribbean Cup. read more.. |
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SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba (AFP):  Violin in hand, Overlin Barrientos cracks a warm smile at a handful of tourists who cheer his trio's rendition of traditional Cuban songs and drop a few coins in his battered cap. All three musicians retired from their state jobs and have joined Cuba's private sector. read more.. |
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BARRERAS, Cuba (AFP):  Backed by a modest home recording studio, Humberto Cabrera has joined Cuba's rappers who rhyme and roar for change in a country whose communist regime usually quiets dissent. Hip-hop artists have some of the most critical voices on the island. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (UPI): Cuba will remain relatively stable after the death of Fidel Castro, a military intelligence official told a Senate panel, the Miami Herald reported Friday. Lt. Gen. Michael D. Maples said Raul Castro has "widespread respect and support." read more.. |
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GUANTANAMO, Cuba (AFP):  Demonstrators in mock prison garb rallied here and around the globe Thursday calling for the US prison in Guantanamo, Cuba, to be closed, five years after its first "war on terror" detainee arrived. Around 395 prisoners are being held in Guantanamo Bay, read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Cuban dissident Manuel Valdes Tamayo, who was jailed in a political crackdown in 2003 and released for medical reasons, died of a heart attack at the age of 50, a fellow dissident said on Thursday. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): A US federal grand jury has indicted anti-Castro militant Luis Posada Carriles for lying in naturalisation proceedings, the Department of Justice said on Thursday. read more.. |
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| ATLANTA, USA (Bloomberg): Pernod Ricard SA's Havana Club International unit is to open a new distillery in Cuba to expand sales of its dark-aged rums. The new distillery is located in San Jose, Cuba, about 30 kilometers from Havana. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Cuba on Wednesday condemned as "theft" the use of frozen Cuban assets in the United States to compensate the families of two Americans killed in the 1961 US-backed Bay of Pigs invasion. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Respect for human rights has not improved in Cuba under interim leader Raul Castro, though the number of Cubans jailed for political reasons has fallen to 283, the country's main rights watchdog said on Tuesday. read more.. |
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| LA PAZ, Bolivia (Reuters): A Cuban dissident living in Bolivia who openly criticized the South American country's closer ties with Cuba was deported to Colombia on Tuesday, a Bolivian government official said. read more.. |
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HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters):  Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan defied a US ban on travel to communist Cuba and flew to Havana on Saturday to join protesters demanding the closure of the Guantanamo prison camp for terrorism suspects. Sheehan and four other American activists arrived in Havana. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Cuba has called on its boxing authorities to stem the flow of talent that continues to quit the impoverished Communist nation. Every year, Cuba loses some of its top athletes, particularly boxers and baseball players. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): More Cubans this year shopped for toys to give their kids on Epiphany, rekindling the Christmas tradition but also ushering in harmful consumerism, Juventudes Rebeldes newspaper warned Sunday. read more.. |
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| OSLO, Norway (Reuters): Norway and Cuba on Friday deplored the decision of a US-owned hotel in Oslo to deny lodging to a Cuban delegation in compliance with US trade sanctions against Havana. read more.. |
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| LISBON, Portugal (AFP): Cuba's 48-year-old Communist Revolution will survive long after Fidal Castro's death, the ailing leader's niece Mariela said in an interview published in Portugal on Thursday. Mariela is a leading academic and campaigner for gay and lesbian rights in Cuba. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): The United States on Friday urged Cuba's communist government to embrace political and economic reforms, again nixing engagement with interim leader Raul Castro. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (Bloomberg): The US Coast Guard and other agencies are stepping up planning for handling a possible surge in Cubans seeking refuge in the US once communist leader Fidel Castro dies, according to officials involved in the effort. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): In 2006, Cuba had the lowest infant mortality rate in its history and of all Latin America, putting it in second place behind Canada for the Americas as a whole, according to a health ministry report. read more.. |
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| OSLO, Norway (AFP): An Oslo hotel belonging to the Nordic chain Scandic has refused to admit a delegation of Cubans because it has been bought by the US hotel group Hilton, Scandic said on Thursday. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Cuba on Monday condemned the execution of deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein as an assassination and called for an end to the US-led war. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez sent gifts and wishes for a full recovery to ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro, his friend and close political ally, on the New Year's Day anniversary of Cuba's revolution, official media reported Tuesday. read more.. |
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HAVANA, Cuba (AFP):  Now that the New Year celebrations are over, the high priests of Cuba's Afro-Cuban Santeria religion have sobering visions for 2007: a "gloomy" year marked by war and military interventions. The babalawos, or priests, issued their annual predictions Tuesday. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Cuba celebrated Monday the 48th anniversary of the revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power, but the ailing leader remained out of sight five months after intestinal surgery that sidelined him. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro said on Saturday his recuperation will be a long process but that "the battle is far from lost." Castro broke his silence over his health in a statement issued to mark the 48th anniversary of Cuba's revolution as well as the coming new year. read more.. |
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| LA HABANA, Cuba (AFP): Interim Cuban President Raul Castro delivered a message attributed to his ailing brother Fidel congratulating all who made the September summit in Havana of the Non-Aligned Nations a success, state news reported late Thursday. read more.. |
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HAVANA, Cuba:  Cuba on Wednesday lashed out at Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, who has called for democratic opening in the Americas' only one-party communist state, calling the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize winner "a vulgar mercenary" of the United States and a "pawn of Yankee imperialism." read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Cubans concerned about the health of ailing Fidel Castro - for most the only leader they have known - were kept in the dark by official Cuban media Tuesday, as a Spanish doctor who examined him refuted reports he is near death. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Cuba's interim leader Raul Castro urged greater honesty in dealing with chronic shortages of housing and public transport, the biggest complaints in the communist state, Cuban state media reported on Saturday. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (Bloomberg): President George W. Bush's top advisers examined last week how to handle the post-Fidel Castro era, preparing for a possible wave of Cuban refugees once the ailing dictator dies. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who has not been seen in public for months following surgery, is continuing to progress in his recovery, interim leader Raul Castro said, as reported in official media Saturday. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): The Cuban National Assembly ended a one-day session here Friday without a sign of ailing President Fidel Castro, who has not been seen in public in four months, the news agency Prensa Latina reported. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Cuba's interim leader Raul Castro, signaling a different style of government from his ailing brother Fidel Castro, on Wednesday called for greater debate on public policies in the communist-run country. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Interim Cuba leader Raul Castro could signal a passing of the torch to a newer generation of Communist leaders when Cuba's national legislature opens its annual meeting here Friday. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Cuba's interim leader Raul Castro said Fidel Castro was "irreplaceable" and that he had never tried to imitate his ailing brother in the five months since he was deputised. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Raul Castro's status as Cuba's leader in the absence of his ailing brother, longtime President Fidel Castro, could become clearer as the communist Caribbean nation's legislature meets Friday. read more.. |
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| MIAMI, USA (AFP): A Cuban-American professor pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy to serve as a Cuban spy in the United States, and his wife pleaded guilty to abetting his activities, leading them to face up to five and three years in prison, respectively. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): US lawmakers back from a trip to Cuba on Monday cast doubt on officials there who insisted Fidel Castro was not dying and would return to power. Castro has not been seen in public since July 26 and failed to show up at a December 2 military parade. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): US lawmakers back from a trip to Cuba said Monday officials there had insisted Fidel Castro was not dying, and that his brother Raul Castro is not Havana's new leader. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Cuba's Central Bank issued new bank notes with enhanced security features on Monday to prevent growing counterfeiting of convertible pesos (CUC). The new bills add the denomination to the watermark. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): A Cuban rafter who was sent back to communist Cuba by the United States 11 months ago said on Monday he would take to the sea again in a 19th bid to get to Florida if Cuban authorities do not allow him to emigrate legally. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro was in telephone contact with a governors' meeting, Cuba's Communist Party newspaper said Saturday, a day after the top US intelligence official said Castro could be at death's door. read more.. |
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HAVANA, Cuba (AFP):  The largest US congressional delegation ever to visit communist-ruled Cuba was to wrap up talks here Sunday, following a series of meetings with senior Cuban officials aimed at easing bilateral tensions. The bipartisan delegation arrived here Friday. read more.. |
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A bipartisan delegation of ten members of the US Congress are now visiting Cuba and represent a ray of rare hope that President George W. Bush will tolerate a modest beginning of a settlement of the age-old split between the two ancient foes
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): The largest delegation from the US Congress to visit Cuba since 1959 arrived in Havana on Friday seeking to open a dialogue with the communist government of acting President Raul Castro despite White House opposition to such contacts. read more.. |
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| KEY WEST, USA (Reuters): A group of Cuban boat people appeared to have made a return odyssey to the Florida Keys on Friday, almost a year after they were found clinging to a bridge piling and sent home in a deportation later ruled illegal. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (Reuters): The United States expects the Cuban people to pressure their government for free elections and a democratic transition when ailing leader Fidel Castro dies, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Friday. read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters): Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Friday that he spoke on Thursday with ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who temporarily stepped aside in July following intestinal surgery. read more.. |
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WASHINGTON, USA (AFP):  Cuban leader Fidel Castro is very ill and close to death, the US Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte told the Washington Post on Friday. "Everything we see indicates it will not be much longer... months, not years," Negroponte told the Post. read more.. |
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| MIAMI, USA (AFP): A US judge Thursday ordered Cuba to pay 400 million dollars to the family of a US citizen summarily executed in 1960 for allegedly heading an invasion force, the family lawyer said. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (Reuters): Cubans are divided on their country's Communist leadership and frustrated by the country's lack of freedom and economic opportunity, according to a rare outside poll released on Thursday. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): Ten lawmakers, believed to be the largest US legislative group to visit communist-ruled Cuba, were to depart for Havana Friday amid rising uncertainty over ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro's health. read more.. |
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| MADRID, Spain (Bloomberg): Sol Melia SA, the world's largest resort operator, has opened a 434-room hotel in Cuba, strengthening its position in the island nation. The addition brings to 24 the number of hotels operated by Sol Melia in Cuba. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (Reuters): The United States on Wednesday rebuffed a recent offer by Cuba for talks and said Havana had become even more hard-line since Raul Castro stepped in for his ailing brother Fidel Castro. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Cubans are increasingly talking in the past tense about Fidel Castro, the man who governed their lives for 47 years. Castro has not appeared in public since he underwent emergency intestinal surgery on July 31. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): The top US diplomat for Latin America Wednesday indicated the United States had yet to find a reformer in the communist Cuban government, but did not flatly rule out dialogue with it in a context of political opening. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Recovering from intestinal surgery since late July and still convalescing in hospital, Cuban leader Fidel Castro on Tuesday was bestowed two awards from the North Korean government for his 80th birthday. read more.. |
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| FORT LAUDERDALE, USA (AFP): With longtime Cuban president Fidel Castro ailing, the US Coast Guard is bracing for a mass migration to US shores from the Caribbean nation, just 90 miles across the Florida Straits. read more.. |
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| NEW YORK, USA (Bloomberg): The US Congress will pass legislation next year to ease restrictions on family travel and financial transfers to Cuba, Representative William Delahunt, co-chair of a congressional group seeking to loosen the US embargo, has said. read more.. |
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| WARSAW, Poland (AFP): Former anti-communist dissident turned Czech president Vaclav Havel on Monday urged tourists to shun Cuba as a holiday destination, in a video message showing solidarity with Cuban dissidents. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): More than 200 Cuban government supporters attacked 15 human rights activists on International Human Rights Day on Sunday, manhandling the demonstrators as they drove them from a Havana park. read more.. |
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| WARSAW, Poland (AFP): Former Polish president and Nobel Peace laureate Lech Walesa will hold a conference to show solidarity with Cuban dissidents on Monday, the Walesa Institute website reported Sunday. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): A leading dissident group Thursday called for an urgent and definitive transfer of power to Raul Castro to better deal with the transition period in Cuban politics opened by Fidel Castro's absence. read more.. |
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| BERLIN, Germany (Reuters): Cuban authorities have banned dissident Guillermo Farinas from travelling to Germany to collect a human rights award because he is in a wheelchair, a German newspaper quoted him as saying on Thursday. read more.. |
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| GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP): The International Committee of the Red Cross said on Thursday it would seek access to prisons in Cuba, one of the few countries to deny it permission to visit political detainees. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (ACN): Cuba is one of the first Latin American countries to have finished a report on the Caribbean Sea pollution affecting national coasts. The conclusions of this research will be the basis for the development of a regional project against contamination. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Fighting serious illnesses in their old age, Cold War icons Fidel Castro of Cuba and Augusto Pinochet of Chile are united in stubborn adherence to their opposing and now largely unfashionable ideologies. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Cuban dissident groups have written to UN chief Kofi Annan asking that he monitor a march in Havana on Human Rights Day, Sunday, to see how police and authorities react. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Government posters say "Fidel Castro for ever" and "80 years more," but Cubans now doubt their bearded leader will again govern their country. More and more suspect he is close to death, even though they have been told little about his condition. read more.. |
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HAVANA, Cuba (AFP):  Cuban leader Fidel Castro on Tuesday congratulated his ally Hugo Chavez on being re-elected president of Venezuela, but official silence about Castro's absence at celebrations in his honour cast fresh doubts on his health. Castro has not appeared in public since late July. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): The United States should bury the hatchet with Cuba and accept conciliatory overtures of its acting leader Raul Castro, who has called for an end to more than 40 years of hostile relations with Washington, some Latin American analysts said. read more.. |
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| MIAMI, USA (AFP): More than 20 Cuban exile groups on Monday asked Washington to ease its decades-old embargo on Cuba to facilitate a political transition, now that Fidel Castro appears to have dropped out of public life. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): The United States said Saturday that the Cuban regime must take steps toward democracy before Washington would consider any "deepening" of bilateral relations, responding to Raul Castro's invitation to come to the negotiating table. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): At Cuba's first military parade in a decade, Cuba's communist interim leader Raul Castro, in a shift from the tack of his ailing brother Fidel Castro, on Saturday pushed for negotiations with the United States to end decades of tense ties. read more.. |
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HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters):  Cubans were astonished by ailing Fidel Castro's absence from his birthday parade on Saturday, but many believe the only leader they have known for 47 years will survive his health crisis and return to public life. Few thought he would fail to turn up on Saturday. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): As a child of the Cold War, I grew up in the United States on a steady diet of rhetoric portraying Cuba as the communist menace just 90 miles off our shores. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Fighter jets are set to fly, workers are poised to march and all eyes will be riveted on the grandstand at a military parade for Fidel Castro's 80th birthday, after the ailing leader sat out celebrations for days. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Cuba's armed forces will marshal their Soviet-era arsenal in a parade on Saturday to show the world, especially the arch-enemy United States, they remain a force to be reckoned with as their ailing leader Fidel Castro fades. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Acting president Raul Castro is the "guardian" of Cuba's communist government in the absence of his brother Fidel Castro and in the face of US threats, a hard-line member of the Cuban leadership said on Thursday. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Cuba's interim leader Raul Castro was a no-show Thursday as some 200,000 people rallied in Santiago to mark the Revolutionary Armed Forces' 50th anniversary, amid uncertainty about his ailing brother Fidel Castro's health. read more.. |
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HAVANA, Cuba (AFP):  Ricardo Alarcon, the high-ranking Cuban official in charge of relations with the United States, on Wednesday ruled out the possibility Cubans want any US help in bringing about change. Washington showed no sign of willingness to accept leadership by Raul Castro. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Silvio Rodriguez, a folk star whose songs are the soundtrack of Cuba's revolution, told AFP he was eager for change in his country. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba: Cuba's Tourism Ministry has reported that two million tourists picked the island as their vacation destination this year. The figure exceeds previous annual statistics for the third year in a row. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Friends of Fidel Castro, from writers to a film star here Thursday for his 80th birthday bash, had opinions on the ailing Cuban leader's health, but no word on whether he would sit out his own party. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Cuba's foreign-exchange earnings swelled by some $3 billion this year due mainly to a jump in service exports, a government source with access to trade data said on Wednesday. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): After more than four decades led by Fidel Castro, many Cubans are as emotional about their ailing leader's uncertain health as they are unprepared to imagine change. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Soaring fighter jets, screaming schoolkids and drilling for a military parade to celebrate Fidel Castro's 80th birthday could not drown out new doubts Wednesday about the Cuban leader's frail health. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Whether or not ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro reappears in public this week at his 80th birthday celebration, a successor government led with stealth by his brother Raul appears to be firmly in place. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Fidel Castro's 80th birthday celebration kicked off on Tuesday with the ailing Cuban leader nowhere in sight but hundreds of admirers from around the world were on hand to pay homage. read more.. |
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HAVANA, Cuba (Bloomberg):  Cuba's economic expansion will extend into next year as the government steps up an energy savings program and cuts its dependence on foreign capital inflows, Economy Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez said. The economy grew 12.5 percent in the first nine months. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Cuba's remarkable recovery from an economic crisis caused by the collapse of the Soviet Union continued this year with double digit growth expected and good prospects for 2007, the state-run news agency said on Monday. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Cuba has pulled off what the United States thought it never would, prolonging Latin America's only communist regime without Fidel Castro directly at the helm, analysts say. read more.. |
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HAVANA, Cuba (AFP):  Cuba rolled out anti-air defences, fighter jets and marchers Monday in a raucous rehearsal for its first military parade in a decade to mark Fidel Castro's 80th birthday, amid expectation here that he may appear in the flesh. Four months have passed since Castro relinquished power. read more.. |
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| TUXPAN, Mexico (Reuters): Now frail from illness and out of sight, Cuban President Fidel Castro was remembered on Saturday as a dashing young revolutionary who set sail 50 years ago from this sleepy Mexican port to a place in history. read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP): Cuban President Fidel Castro is not on his death bed, but is ready to launch a "second mandate," Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Saturday, brandishing a letter from his ailing friend. read more.. |
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HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Cuba is abuzz with big celebrations to belatedly mark Fidel Castro's 80th birthday, going ahead whether or not the communist stalwart, little seen since undergoing a major operation, takes part, officials say.
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Fidel Castro, whose 80th birthday Cuba is celebrating this week, has for more than four decades defied US efforts to end his rule as the only Communist leader in Latin America. read more.. |
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| MIAMI, USA (Reuters): Janet Ray Weininger finally won a battle against Cuban leader Fidel Castro last week when a court ordered she can collect $23.9 million in frozen Cuban funds in compensation for her executed father. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): A silence has settled over Cuban political life that ordinary Cubans find at once disconcerting and a big relief. After decades of delivering long and frequent speeches, Cuban leader Fidel Castro has virtually disappeared while recovering from surgery. read more.. |
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| ISLE OF YOUTH, Cuba (Reuters): Jump in the back, "the Champ" said as he revved the overheating motor of his battered, Russian-made Lada, a gift from President Fidel Castro. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Ailing Cuban President Fidel Castro's health continues to improve, according to Vice President Carlos Lage, who said Tuesday he was very optimistic, days before postponed birthday celebrations for the revolutionary icon. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Cuban dissident Camilo Cairo Falcon was picked up by the US Coast Guard while fleeing the island on a raft and taken to the US base in Guantanamo Bay, where he requested political asylum, dissident sources said. read more.. |
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| MIAMI, USA: Hugo Cancio, President and CEO of Fuego Entertainment, Inc., a public media and entertainment company, has announced that he will establish an exploratory group called the US-Cuban Investment Committee to assist the reconstruction of his native country, Cuba. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (ACN): Almost half a million poor people from 28 Caribbean and Latin American nations have benefited from Operation Miracle, a highly successful programme started by Cuba that provides free surgery to low income patients. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (UPI): William Lee Brent, a member of the Black Panther party who hijacked a plane to Cuba to 1969, has died in Havana at the age of 75. Brent spent the remainder of his life in Cuba. read more.. |
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| Hurdling over the barriers erected by Washington policymakers, Cuba, with increasing gusto, is turning to its oil and ethanol sectors to achieve energy security, despite the US embargo. read more.. |
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| NEW YORK, USA (UPI): The families of two men killed by Fidel Castro's regime will get more than $90 million in Cuban assets held in the United States, a federal judge has ruled. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): More than 300,000 people will take part in a military parade marking President Fidel Castro's 80th birthday, as well as the 50th anniversary of the start of the Cuban revolution, according to press reports. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Cuba has patented a new treatment for cervical cancer with less harmful side effects than conventional therapies, a group of researchers said. The treatment involves a peptide that inhibits and kills the CK2 enzyme. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): An influential programme, on state-run Cuban television on Thursday, described plans for ailing Fidel Castro's 80th birthday celebration but did not mention whether he would attend and said his ideas were more important than his presence. read more.. |
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EL ESPINAL, Venezuela (Reuters):  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday warned private media he would shut them down if they promote a bid to topple him he says is planned after his expected December 3 re-election. Chavez has accused the opposition of planning to oust him if he wins. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Cuba's central bank blasted Swiss banks UBS and Credit Suisse on Thursday for cutting off business dealings with Cuba, saying they had bowed to US pressure. read more.. |
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| LONDON, England (AFP): A six-year legal battle over vintage Latin music made famous by the "Buena Vista Social Club" album ended in London Thursday with victory for Cuba over the United States. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Havana charged Thursday that US aid to dissidents in Cuba invites corruption, pointing to a recent US congressional probe, which showed that the funds have been used to buy luxury items. read more.. |
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BERLIN, Germany (AFP):  Cuba has barred leading dissident Guillermo Farinas from travelling to Germany to receive a human rights prize awarded by the city of Weimar, a human rights group said. Cuban authorities had cited medical grounds for refusing Farinas permission to travel. read more.. |
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| MIAMI, USA (AFP): Poor monitoring of millions of dollars intended to support Cuban dissidents has led to such excesses as the purchase of Godiva chocolates and Sony PlayStations at US taxpayers' expense, according to an official audit released on Wednesday. read more.. |
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| Having spent two weeks in Havana, I saw for myself what seemed quite obvious: after Fidel's departure, which is not far off, Cuba is in for serious change. The Cubans themselves are well aware of this. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Just two weeks ahead of belated celebrations for Fidel Castro's 80th birthday, it remains unclear whether the ailing guest of honour will take part. read more.. |
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| FORT LAUDERDALE, USA (AFP): A wealthy activist opposed to Cuba's communist government was sentenced to almost four years in jail by a Florida court Tuesday for conspiring to stow military weapons. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (Reuters): Cuban President Fidel Castro is not likely to return to power as his usual robust self because of lingering health problems that could include cancer, US officials said on Monday. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): The eldest son of Cuban leader Fidel Castro said on Monday his father is recovering from an unspecified illness that has forced him to temporarily give up power he held since a 1959 communist revolution. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro is recovering and expected to return to power, but he may not be well enough to attend his 80th birthday celebration on December 2, the head of Cuba's National Assembly, Ricardo Alarcon, said last week. read more.. |
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| ZURICH, Switzerland (Reuters): Swiss banks Credit Suisse and UBS said they have severed relations with Cuba and are not conducting any business dealings with the country. read more.. |
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BASSETERRE, St Kitts:  A monument in honour of St Kitts and Nevis' Father of the Nation and First National Hero, Sir Robert Bradshaw, is a step closer to reality. Cuban Ambassador, Ana Maria Gonzalez, and Cuban sculptor, Andres Gonzalez, briefed St Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister, Dr Denzil Douglas. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): The Cuban government gloated on Thursday about the latest United Nations vote to end a long-running US trade embargo and was equally pleased by the heavy Republican losses in America's congressional elections. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): After 100 days without Fidel Castro at the helm, Cubans, including Castro himself, are not sure when he will return to run the Americas' only communist state. read more.. |
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| UNITED NATIONS, (AFP): The UN General Assembly on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly for the 15th time in a row to demand an end to the four-decade-old US trade embargo against communist-ruled Cuba. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): The group organising Fidel Castro's 80th birthday party said on Tuesday it was unsure the Cuban leader would attend the December 2 celebration that also will mark the 50th anniversary of the Cuban revolution's start. read more.. |
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| PARIS, France (AFP): The Paris-based media rights group, Reporters Without Borders, on Tuesday called on Cuba to release an independent Cuban journalist arrested two weeks ago for being a "danger to society". read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Stepped up enforcement of US sanctions on doing business in dollars with communist Cuba is forcing governments to change how they finance embassies in Havana, diplomats said on Monday. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (UPI): Cuba is airing the communist island's first TV program featuring openly gay characters, The Miami Herald reported Monday. read more.. |
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HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters):  Troops marched in the streets and fighter jets streaked across the skies of Havana on Saturday, rehearsing a December 2 celebration of the 50th anniversary of the start of the Cuban revolution and the 80th birthday of its leader, Fidel Castro. read more.. |
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HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters):  Like many events in communist Cuba, a cricket match for children on Saturday turned into a denunciation of the United States, but this time from London's leftist Mayor, Ken Livingstone, not Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Livingstone praised the ailing Castro and blasted US policy. read more.. |
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GEORGETOWN, Guyana (GINA):  The first consignment of modern equipment to furnish diagnostic and treatment centres in Guyana has arrived and will soon be installed at two of the facilities which are nearing completion. The equipment arrived on a Cuban aircraft on October 31. read more.. |
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| MOSCOW, Russia (AFP): Russian lawmakers unanimously condemned a United States trade embargo against Cuba on Friday as "a flagrant violation of human rights" and called for international help to end the blockade. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AP): Activist, Martha Beatriz Roque, has an unusual request for the Cuban government: stop the harassment or send her back to jail. The former political prisoner, who has opposed leader Fidel Castro for 17 years, says she can no longer endure the threats and insults. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Glum US vendors find themselves fewer in number and fading in importance at Havana's annual international trade fair, a plight they blame on a 44-year-old Cold War trade embargo that they say is handing the Cuban market to other countries. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Cuban unrefined nickel production may fall short of the 76,700 planned for the year due to a 3,000-tonne shortfall at one of three plants reported by joint venture partner Sherritt International this week. read more.. |
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| LOS ANGELES, USA (AFP): An American sports agent was indicted by the federal government on Tuesday in a scheme that allegedly involved smuggling elite Cuban baseball players to America. read more.. |
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| Living in a hostile neighborhood led Fidel to look for allies elsewhere. Part of this process has included the conduct of medical diplomacy, which is the collaboration between countries to improve relations and simultaneously produce health benefits. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (UPI): Cuban President Fidel Castro says he is still very much involved in leading the communist island despite his recent illness. Castro said he still participates "in many of the important decisions" made by Cuban leaders. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Cuba has jammed the latest anti-Castro television programming beamed over by the United States, according to an informal survey of Cubans who tried to watch the shows that included baseball's championship series. read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters): Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, said on Friday that Cuban leader, Fidel Castro, was walking about and making nocturnal trips outside Havana, countering rumours the ailing 80-year-old was dead. Castro has long acted as a mentor to Chavez. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Cuba is containing an outbreak of dengue fever that has caused a number of deaths, the Pan-American Health Organisation said this week, citing a Cuban government report that gave no figures. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Interim Cuban leader Raul Castro appeared today for the first time in three weeks to congratulate Palante humor magazine on its 45th anniversary, the Cuban agency AIN said. read more.. |
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| LA PAZ, Bolivia (AFP): Cuba "has no objections" to Bolivia's candidacy for a rotating seat on the UN Security Council, which becomes avalable in December, Cuban Ambassador Rafael Dausa said here Wednesday. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who ceded power in July after surgery, will return to the helm of his government, Cuba's top diplomat in the United States maintained Tuesday. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Cuba has begun debating how to correct rampant theft and inefficiency in state-run services, from pouring beer to shining shoes, that could signal a step toward economic reform under acting President Raul Castro. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Bloomberg): Cuba's main government advisory body recommended the second ministerial cabinet change since Raul Castro assumed the interim presidency almost three months ago from his brother Fidel, who's recovering from intestinal surgery, Spanish news agency EFE has reported. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): Cuba will never be the same as it was before leader Fidel Castro took ill in July and handed power to his brother, according to the US pointman to democratize the communist island. read more.. |
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| PARIS, France (Reuters): A press freedom watchdog accused Cuba on Thursday of trying to prevent people from reading independent media, saying less than 2 percent of Cubans connect to the Web at closely monitored Internet access points. read more.. |
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MADRID, Spain (Reuters):  It's the world's most expensive cigar -- $440 each and it only comes in boxes of 40 -- but is it the best? Nobody knows because no one has smoked one. The Cuban havanas from the Cohiba brand are so precious that no one has actually lit one yet. read more.. |
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BRASILIA, Brazil (AFP):  Brazil's leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Thursday he was disappointed that Fidel Castro, the ailing leader of communist Cuba, had missed his chance to implement a "democratic opening." Lula, a former union leader, visited Cuba in September 2004. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Cuba and China have agreed to launch a biotechnology venture to develop neurotechnology products in China, official Cuban media announced Thursday. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Graham Greene returns to a Havana of spies, cigar-chomping gangsters and prostitutes as the main character in a novel by internationally acclaimed Cuban author Pedro Juan Gutierrez. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): He likes the sound of Queen, leads 300,000 Cuban university students and is the son of Cuba's third most powerful man after the Castro brothers. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba: The 11th World Sport for All Congress will be held in Havana, Cuba, from 31 October to 3 November at the Havana International Conference Centre. It will be the first time that the Cuban Olympic Committee will host the Congress. read more.. |
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HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters):  At the age of 82, French crooner Charles Aznavour is still looking for new ways to capture an audience and has turned to the hot rhythms of Cuban music to convey his songs. Aznavour teamed up with Latin jazz piano virtuoso, Chucho Valdes, to record 11 songs. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba: Cuba and Antigua & Barbuda explored ways in Havana on Monday to fight drug trafficking, which will be controlled by an accord that both nations will sign on October 20. read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters): Impervious to a drenching from a tropical downpour, President Hugo Chavez last month told an election rally 90 percent of Venezuelans would one day back a socialist revolution, that he wants a single party to steer. read more.. |
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| Cuba’s ascension to leadership of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), at its 14th meeting held September 11-16 in Havana, signaled a heightening of diplomatic tensions between a growing number of assertive developing nations and their main target, an increasingly assailed United States. read more.. |
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HAVANA, Cuba (AFP):  Geraldine Correa kneels reverently before a multicolored altar to orishas, or deities: like a growing number of foreigners, the Swiss woman has embraced Cuban santeria. Correa first became interested in the religion as a research subject. read more.. |
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| MIAMI, USA (UPI): A Cuban national has been convicted of conspiracy to smuggle illegal aliens into Florida and lying to federal authorities, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel has reported. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Theft and negligence are rife in Cuba's state-run services, with employees often making money on the side by changing prices or portions in places such as cafeterias, appliance repair shops and beauty salons, an official newspaper reported on Sunday. read more.. |
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| MIAMI, USA (Reuters): Cuba keeps its secrets so well that Washington has no solid information about the health of veteran revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, a senior US official said on Friday. read more.. |
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| KEY WEST, USA (Reuters): A Cuban woman died of blunt head trauma she suffered as migrant smugglers sought to escape the Coast Guard in a high-speed chase, a Florida medical examiner testified this week in the opening of a migrant smuggling trial. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Benito Martinez Abrogan, Cuba's oldest person and star of the government's efforts to promote healthy lives for its oldest citizens, died on Wednesday at the age of 126. read more.. |
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| MIAMI, USA (AFP): The United States will pursue more aggressively violators of a US trade embargo against Cuba, a US prosecutor said Tuesday, in an effort to topple the communist regime. read more.. |
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| CANCUN, Mexico (AFP): A cruise ship rescued 14 Cubans on a rickety raft in the Caribbean and handed them over to Mexican immigration authorities, the tour company said. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Bloomberg): Cuban leader Fidel Castro is recovering and slowly resuming his duties after undergoing intestinal surgery in July, his brother and acting government head Raul said in a speech on Sunday. read more.. |
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| A lot of people don't like Hugo Chavez, the elected revolutionary leader of oil-rich Venezuela. At the top of the list, of course, is President George W. Bush, whom Chavez recently described as "the devil" in a speech to the UN General Assembly. read more.. |
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GEORGETOWN, Guyana:  Thirty years after a terrorists’ bomb killed 73 passengers on a Cubana airline flight, Guyanese officials have unveiled plans to erect a monument here to honour the victims. A ceremony was held on Friday in the capital of Georgetown for the erection of the monument. read more.. |
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| LAS VEGAS, USA (AFP): Cuba's Joel Casamayor captured the World Boxing Council lightweight title here Saturday with a 12-round split decision over American Diego Corrales. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (UPI): US government officials say Cuban President Fidel Castro is suffering from terminal cancer, Time magazine has reported. The officials cautioned, however, that definitive proof of Castro's condition was not available. read more.. |
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| CHICAGO, USA (Bloomberg): Sherritt International Corp., a Canadian company that produces nickel and oil in Cuba, plans to expand on the island nation because executives are confident the investment will be safe after Fidel Castro cedes power or dies. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Four Nobel laureates urged the US government Friday to put anti-Castro militant Luis Posada Carriles on trial for the bombing of a Cuban jet. read more.. |
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| NEW YORK, USA (Reuters): Venezuela's state-owned oil firm PDVSA has cut its October unleaded gasoline export flow to neighboring Cuba due to refinery problems, oil traders and ship brokers said on Friday. read more.. |
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| EL PASO, USA (AFP): The US government opposed on Thursday releasing Luis Posada Carriles, an anti-Castro militant wanted by Venezuela in the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed 73 people, court papers show. read more.. |
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| MIAMI, USA (AFP): The publisher of The Miami Herald has resigned amid an uproar over the firings of three writers for taking US government payments for appearing on anti-Castro propaganda programs. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Ailing 80-year-old Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who temporarily ceded power to his brother Raul in July, will return to power, Cuba's top diplomat was quoted as saying in official media Wednesday. read more.. |
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| MIAMI, USA (AFP): US authorities are investigating the theft of a small plane that was found in Cuba, apparently stolen by a man with a minor, sources told AFP. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Cuba's high number of centenarians say their longevity is a result of going easy on alcohol, but indulging in coffee, cigars and sex, according to a survey released Wednesday. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (ACN): Harvard University is gearing up to launch a spring-semester study-abroad programme at the University of Havana, Cuba, despite strict federal regulations on US travel to Cuba. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Two months without Fidel Castro at the helm in Cuba have shown how wrong US predictions of upheaval on the communist-run island have been, a senior Cuban official said on Tuesday. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Fourteen Cubans that have visas to travel to the United States -- granted after they were repatriated in January -- pleaded for help Monday to leave Cuba. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): US trade sanctions have cost Cuba $4.1 billion over the last year in higher financial and shipping costs, lost business and cancelled contracts, the island's communist government said on Monday. read more.. |
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| MIAMI, USA (Reuters): There is no sign and not even a visible street address outside the Miami office of money manager Thomas Herzfeld. "I'd appreciate it if you don't mention where we are," Herzfeld told Reuters. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): A huge blaze at Cuba's biggest oil refinery in Havana left one worker dead and another injured, television reports said late Thursday. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): A blaze of "huge proportions" broke out late Wednesday at Cuba's biggest oil refinery in Havana, leaving at least two people injured, authorities said. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar Mamedyarov arrived Thursday for his first official visit to Cuba to discuss possible energy agreements, according to officials. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Russia will make it easier for Cuba to repay $160 million in debt and set aside for now a dispute over Cold War-era credits as it seeks to sell planes to the former Soviet client, a Russian diplomat said on Wednesday. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Cuba has fired the heads of two of the country's most influential companies in a bid to bring the computing and telecommunications enterprises back under firm state control amid a national anti-corruption drive, industry sources said on Monday. read more.. |
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 US President George W Bush and UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, talked about the possibility that Cuba “could once again be an economic tiger in the Caribbean”. What are the changes that Cuba would have to make? read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Fidel Castro isn't the only one ailing in Cuba, where authorities are on the charge, spraying from aircraft and military trucks in a war on a great big, tiny enemy: the mosquito that spreads dengue. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro "is doing better and better" and often uses the telephone at his bedside, his brother and Cuba's acting leader Raul Castro said Wednesday. read more.. |
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| NEW YORK, USA (AFP): US President George W. Bush and UN chief Kofi Annan on Tuesday discussed ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro's health and whether Cuba would become an "economic tiger" once he leaves the world scene, the White House said. read more.. |
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| NEW DELHI, India (Bloomberg): Oil & Natural Gas Corp., India's biggest oil explorer, may bid for stakes in oil fields in Cuba, Chairman R.S. Sharma told shareholders at an annual meeting in New Delhi on Tuesday. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Convalescing Cuban leader Fidel Castro is trying on his uniform, taking short walks in his hospital room to loosen up his numb limbs and has a healthy appetite, visiting friends said on Monday. read more.. |
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| ATHENS, Greece: Cuban World champion Zulia Calatayud found that extra strength again in the final metres of the home straight to hold off another determined finish from Kenya’s Janeth Jepkosgei and become the first Americas female 800m winner at the IAAF World Cup in Athletics since 1989. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): No matter whether Fidel Castro returns to office or not, diplomats and dissidents say the post-Fidel era has already begun and some foresee an ideological tug of war between "tropical Taliban" and proponents of Chinese-style economic reforms. read more.. |
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HAVANA, Cuba (AFP):  The Non-Aligned Movement concluded a summit in Havana on Sunday, issuing a final declaration backing Iran's right to nuclear energy and urging UN reform to give greater weight to poor countries. The event was also marked by North Korea's defense of its nuclear program. read more.. |
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| ATHENS, Greece: Surprise World Indoor 60m hurdles silver medallist, Cuban Dayron Robles is overwhelmed with his own performances this season, a year in which he graduated from a junior level and became a world-recognised hurdler at the senior level. read more.. |
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 Chances are that many of you know as much about the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) as you do about Foucualt’s Pendulum. After all, the NAM’s governing philosophy has proved every bit as profoundly innocuous and ultimately irrelevant. read more.. |
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HAVANA, Cuba (AFP):  Leaders of Cuba, Venezuela and Bolivia -- who have all charged the United States is working to topple them -- were in Havana Thursday packing some blazing anti-US talk. "The Empire is in decline," Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez quipped as he arrived in Havana. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Fidel Castro is regaining some of the weight he has lost since his operation, and can once again speak in a loud voice fit for speeches, an Argentine lawmaker wrote a day after meeting the Cuban strongman. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Acting Cuban leader Raul Castro met in Havana Thursday with leaders of the Group of 15 developing countries including Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. read more.. |
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HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters):  New Chinese traffic lights, anti-mosquito fumigation campaigns and half-finished paint jobs on crumbling houses reflect what many Cubans see as papering over the cracks of a dilapidated city to prepare for the Non-Aligned Summit. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Cuba accused the United States of double standards on Wednesday after a judge recommended releasing a Cuban exile accused of the 1976 bombing of an airliner in the same week it mourned the September 11 attacks. A US magistrate said Luis Posada Carriles must be freed. read more.. |
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HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters):  Cuban television showed photographs of convalescing Fidel Castro receiving a friend in a dressing gown on Wednesday and officials said he was back on the telephone giving orders. State television broadcast photographs of a gaunt-looking Castro sitting at a table. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Bloomberg): Cuba's economy grew 12.5 percent in the first half of 2006, boosted by a surge in the construction, transport and services industries, Economy and Planning Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez said. read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP): Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez Tuesday invited his Bolivian counterpart to join him for breakfast with President Fidel Castro, and suggested the ailing Cuban leader may serve up a health concoction he calls "tsunami." read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): A leading Cuban dissident Tuesday slammed the Non-Aligned Movement, in the second day of a summit here, for not making human rights a real priority, and failing to defend personal and political freedoms. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): A top Cuban government official objected on Tuesday to news reports on the non-aligned movement he said conveyed the impression that all its 100-plus members belonged to the "axis of evil." read more.. |
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| EL PASO, USA (Reuters): A US magistrate on Monday recommended releasing a 79-year-old Cuban exile accused of violent acts against Fidel Castro's government, including a 1976 airliner bombing that killed 73 people. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Bloomberg): India's biggest state-controlled oil exploring company has won permission from Cuba to drill for crude in its waters, part of an effort by the Caribbean island's communist regime to become oil self-sufficient. read more.. |
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HAVANA, Cuba (Bloomberg):  Cuban Foreign Affairs Minister Felipe Perez Roque has commented on leader Fidel Castro's health, the US and Iran before a summit of the Non-Aligned Movement group that will take place in Havana this week. Perez Roque spoke at a news conference. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Leaders of the Non-Aligned Movement of 116 developing nations will meet in Cuba this week for a summit that will gather some of the United States' fiercest critics just 90 miles offshore. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Not one to shy away from the spotlight, the ailing Fidel Castro will cast a long shadow as Cuba hosts much of the developing world, including key US foes, at a Non Aligned Movement summit in Havana this week. read more.. |
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| MIAMI, USA (AFP): Three reporters for Miami's main Spanish language daily were fired for receiving money from the US government to appear on its anti-Fidel Castro broadcasting operations, the Miami Herald reported Friday. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): The United States will not attend next week's summit in Cuba of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) that will gather some of its most hostile critics just 90 miles from US soil, the top US diplomat in Cuba said on Thursday. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (UPI): Renowned Cuban musician Richard Egues, known for his songwriting and flute playing, has died in Havana at the age of 82. Cuba-controlled news outlet Granma said Egues died September 1. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Bolivian President Evo Morales made a surprise half-day visit to Cuba on Wednesday to visit convalescing Cuban leader Fidel Castro, Cuban television said. read more.. |
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| LONDON, England (Bloomberg): Ballet Nacional de Cuba, which opened "Don Quixote" in London Tuesday night, is, like Cuba, looking frayed around the edges. It's sunny and good-natured, while suffering from the domination of a leader who should have gone years ago. read more.. |
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| TEHRAN, Iran (AFP): Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is to attend the summit of Non-Aligned Movement countries in the Cuban capital Havana in mid-September, an official said Wednesday. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): The Cuban President Fidel Castro said the worst part of a health crisis that made him shed 18.5 kilos (41 pounds) was over and that he would attend the Non-Aligned Movement summit here next week, in a handwritten statement published Tuesday. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Cuba's second glimpse of Fidel Castro since he handed power to his brother in late July has fueled speculation that he is rapidly recovering and may return to the helm and appear at the Non-Aligned Movement summit later this month. read more.. |
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| ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AFP): Leaders of nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan may meet on the sidelines of an international summit this month to jump-start their stalled peace process, Pakistan's foreign ministry said Monday. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Ignacio Insua, a Cuban cameraman working for Reuters Television in Havana, died on Monday of a heart attack after suffering spine injuries in a car accident. He was 57. read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters): Cuban leader Fidel Castro is now able to write notes and give orders as he recovers from surgery, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday. Castro temporarily handed power to his brother Raul on July 31 to recover from intestinal surgery. read more.. |
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HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters):  Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro, looking well on the mend, was shown on television on Friday meeting with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez after temporarily ceding power a month ago to undergo intestinal surgery. The seven-minute clip showed a smiling Castro in bed. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): In the month since an ailing Fidel Castro ceded power to his brother Raul, very little appears to have changed in communist-run Cuba but residents say an almost 48-year era has ended. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): In the first cabinet change since Raul Castro, 75, took communist Cuba's interim presidency a month ago, a seasoned 74-year-old was named Thursday as new communications chief. read more.. |
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HAVANA, Cuba (AFP):  Provisional Cuban leader Raul Castro said his brother Fidel Castro's recovery from gastrointestinal surgery was "gradual and satisfactory," the official newspaper Granma said Tuesday. The statement on Fidel Castro's health came during a meeting Sunday. read more.. |
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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (Reuters):  Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, a respected elder statesman in Latin America, said on Tuesday he hoped Fidel Castro's health crisis would help move Cuba toward democracy. Arias also urged the United States to lift its embargo on the communist-ruled island. read more.. |
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HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters):  Tropical Storm Ernesto drenched eastern Cuba on Monday and headed for the Florida Straits, where it could regain hurricane strength and hit Florida's most populous region. Ernesto briefly became the Atlantic season's first hurricane on Sunday. read more.. |
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MIAMI, USA (Reuters):  Hurricane Ernesto weakened to a tropical storm as it hammered flood-prone Haiti on Sunday and Florida and Cuba started evacuations as the storm headed for the Gulf of Mexico a year after Hurricane Katrina swamped New Orleans. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): For the first time in four decades, Cubans on Sunday faced the possibility of confronting a hurricane without longtime leader Fidel Castro personally leading the nation through the storm. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (UPI): Cuban-Americans are less likely than other Hispanics to see the immigration debate as heightening discrimination, the Washington-based Pew Hispanic Center said. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): The United States, keeping up the pressure on Cuba in the absence of ailing leader Fidel Castro, said Wednesday it would lift a 44-year trade embargo if the communist government embraced democracy. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): With the help of a Russian-built biplane, Cuba has stepped up measures to check the spread of dengue, a mosquito-transmitted virus that causes a fever that can be deadly. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Cuban leader Fidel Castro is relaxing for the first time in his life as he recovers from intestinal surgery free of his excessive workload, his older brother, Ramon Castro, said on Tuesday. read more.. |
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| WARSAW, Poland (Reuters): Polish ex-President Aleksander Kwasniewski, who helped negotiate a peaceful end to Ukraine's "Orange Revolution", has offered to mediate talks between the Cuban government and Cuban opposition leaders. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): The highest-level US delegation to visit Cuba since Fidel Castro handed over power left the island on Wednesday with a historic deal on trade between the communist country and a Navajo agribusiness. read more.. |
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| MIAMI, USA (AFP): Miami's school board decided Tuesday to appeal a ruling ordering its libraries to reinstate a children's book about Cuba, which exiles claim paints an overly rosy picture of the communist-run island. read more.. |
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| MONACO, France: Cuban former World Junior silver medallist Dayron Robles defeated a relatively strong field to win the men's 110-metres Hurdles at the 'Herculis 2006,' an IAAF Super Grand Prix meeting in Riviera on Sunday, August 20. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (UPI): Raúl Castro's first public comments as Cuba's acting president focused on initiating dialogue with Washington, the Miami Herald said Saturday. read more.. |
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WASHINGTON, USA (AFP):  The United States has named a special "manager" for its intelligence operations against Cuba and Venezuela, in effect putting the two Latin American nations on a par with "axis of evil" states confronted on multiple levels by the Bush administration. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): A US State Department official poked fun Friday at ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro's brother, who is interim ruler of the communist state, calling him "Fidel's baby brother" and "Fidel light." read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Fidel Castro is getting better and Cuba has bolstered its defenses since his operation, the strongman's brother Raul said in comments published Thursday, his first since becoming acting president. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): The United States on Friday said it had no plans to invade Cuba, after its communist interim leader, Raul Castro, said he had ordered a mobilization to counter a US invasion threat. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Long held in check by President Fidel Castro, Cuban entrepreneurs ranging from plumbers to pizza makers hope to enjoy some slack while his brother Raul is in charge. read more.. |
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| For many of the anti-Castro exiles dancing along Miami's Calle Ocho on Monday, July 31, the announcement of a temporary transfer of power marked the happiest of moments as well as the end of a troubled epoch in their lives. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Cuba's Communist Party reaffirms daily that Fidel Castro's handover of power to his brother Raul is a plan to stave off any offensive by US President George W. Bush toward a political transition. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): With President Fidel Castro ill, and acting President Raul Castro 75 years old, the era of those who won the 1959 revolution is ending and the ascendancy of a new generation is about to begin, Cuba experts say. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Cuba has carefully paced the release of information on Fidel Castro's health and the transfer of power to his brother Raul to ensure stability while keeping expectations low, experts and diplomats say. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Cuba began demobilizing thousands of reserve troops this week on alert since President Fidel Castro temporarily handed power to brother Raul Castro for health reasons, Communist Party sources said on Wednesday. read more.. |
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| LONDON, England (Bloomberg): Bacardi Ltd will defend itself "vigorously" against a lawsuit by Pernod Ricard SA over the U.S. rights to the Havana Club rum brand, the subject of a 10-year legal battle. read more.. |
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CANGE, Haiti (AFP):  "It hurts me to see children die before they even had a chance to live," says Estrella Torres, one of 600 Cuban doctors who work in Haiti, where life expectancy is only 52 years. Haiti, with a population of just eight million people, is the poorest country in western hemisphere. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Cuban television showed video on Monday of Fidel Castro, following two weeks of speculation over the ailing communist strongman who said he still faces a long and possibly risky recovery from surgery. State television showed Castro celebrating his 80th birthday Sunday. read more.. |
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HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters):  Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro said his recovery could take time and cautioned Cubans to be ready for bad news, while acting president Raul Castro stepped into his brother's public role by greeting Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez as he arrived for a visit. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Raul Castro made a brief public debut as communist Cuba's leader Sunday, welcoming Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to mark ailing Fidel Castro's 80th birthday. read more.. |
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HAVANA, Cuba (AFP):  Cuba on Sunday marked the 80th birthday of Fidel Castro by releasing photos of the communist leader which erased any doubt that he made it through major surgery though he warned Cubans to be ready for "bad news". Castro said he was "happy". read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Supporters of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, anxious to see him reappear almost two weeks after undergoing surgery, are preparing to celebrate his 80th birthday on Sunday with or without him. read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters): The stomach condition of Cuban leader Fidel Castro is a classified secret, but his close ally Hugo Chavez openly suggests the communist try a dose of his own medicine for his intestinal woes. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (Reuters): Cuba's Communist government may redouble its efforts to assert control and assure the successful transition from Fidel to Raul Castro, but the plan won't work in the end, a senior U.S. official said on Friday. read more.. |
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| MIAMI, USA (Reuters): A lot more than the treacherous Florida Straits separates Miami's Cuban exiles from their homeland just 90 miles (145 km) off the southern tip of Florida. read more.. |
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| MIAMI, USA (UPI): The once-prosperous movement against Cuban President Fidel Castro among Cuban exiles in Miami has weakened in recent years, the Los Angeles Times said. read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters): Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Thursday he had exchanged letters with his friend and ally Fidel Castro, who is recovering from abdominal surgery. read more.. |
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| MIAMI, USA (Reuters): A US appeals court has upheld the convictions of five Cuban men for spying on behalf of Fidel Castro's government, ruling a lower court was right not to move their trial out of Miami despite claims of a biased jury pool. read more.. |
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| NAIROBI, Kenya (Reuters): Most people drink a mojito, jump in the sea or head for a salsa bar when they arrive in Cuba. I got a two-hour tirade from Fidel Castro. read more.. |
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| MIAMI, USA (Reuters): With the cocktail-drinking classes thirsty for mojitos and daiquiris, a new front has opened up in a Cuban rum war that has its roots in the ailing Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Cuba on Wednesday justified the dearth of news on ailing President Fidel Castro's health, arguing that the country faces a clear and imminent threat from the United States. read more.. |
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| SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AFP): Costa Rica's President Oscar Arias became the first Latin American leader Wednesday to demand free elections for Cuba when ailing President Fidel Castro dies. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): The United States said Tuesday it had stepped up planning for a Cuba without President Fidel Castro, steering a careful political course as intrigue deepened over the communist icon's fate. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Cuban dissidents Tuesday played down chances of imminent change, as authorities insisted the communist leadership is alive and well after the ailing President Fidel Castro temporarily ceded power. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Gustavo Arcos Bergnes, a comrade of Fidel Castro in the early days of the revolution but later imprisoned for criticizing the regime, died of a heart attack here Tuesday, opposition activists told AFP. He was 79. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Cuba's vice president said Monday Fidel Castro should be back at the helm within weeks, but another top official spoke of months, reflecting the secrecy surrounding the ailing president's condition. read more.. |
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| ISABELA DE SAGUA, Cuba (Reuters): While the world waits to see if Cuban leader Fidel Castro recovers from surgery and returns to power in the island nation he has run for 47 years, life in this remote fishing village goes on as before, almost untouched by the news. read more.. |
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| (UPI) Cuba is in for some major changes soon. Its octogenarian ruler, Fidel Castro, and his younger brother Raul, the number two man in the Cuban Council of State, cannot withstand change, and there is no younger leader on the Cuban political scene. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (UPI): The Cuban military is not a repressive apparatus, it's a money machine that runs the tourism sector, sugar, naval and retail industries, a report says. read more.. |
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| With Fidel Castro temporarily transferring his authority to his brother Raúl a number of days ago, the instability that could accompany any significant shift in the Castro regime is now under close review in Washington. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (UPI): Satellite TV dishes are giving some Cubans a look at how the rest of the world is covering President Fidel Castro's health problems. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Word filtered through the ranks of the Cuban Communist Party and government that President Fidel Castro was recovering from surgery, but his location and exact condition remained a mystery on Sunday nearly a week after his unprecedented handover of power. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday insisted the United States would not stoke a political crisis in Cuba as President Fidel Castro ails, but issued a new call for democratic change. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Elian Gonzalez, the Cuban boy who became the celebrated object of a 2000 US-Cuba tug-of-war wished Cuban leader Fidel Castro a speedy recovery from surgery. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): In the foothills of Cuba's rugged Sierra Maestra mountains, where President Fidel Castro launched his armed revolution half a century ago, life appears frozen in time. read more.. |
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WASHINGTON, USA (UPI):  US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told the Cuban people Friday that the United States will support a transition to democracy in Cuba. Her message was broadcast on TV Marti, a service sponsored and financed by the US government. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (UPI): The Bush administration is admittedly in the dark about Cuba since Fidel Castro handed power over to his brother, Raul Castro, the Miami Herald reported. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (UPI): The Cuban state-controlled media has condemned Cuban-Americans in Miami for celebrating Fidel Castro's surgery and temporary delegation of power to his brother. read more.. |
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| Washington, USA: A meeting with US State Department officials this week did little to assuage concerns of humanitarian agency Church World Service (CWS) over new restrictions on its established channel of aid distribution to Cuba. read more.. |
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| MIAMI, USA (UPI): Contrary to rumors within Florida's Cuban community, the sister of Cuban leader Fidel Castro says she has learned her brother is doing well after surgery. read more.. |
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| Fidel Castro’s temporary step-down from power while he convalesces from surgery has again raised the question about what happens with Cuba after he dies. The expectation is that the Castro regime will collapse. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Cuba insisted Friday that Raul Castro was in control and his brother Fidel was recovering from surgery, as the Communist leaders stayed out of view but defiant against escalating US calls for democratic change. The government released the first news on Fidel Castro's health. read more.. |
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| Though not surprised, I was stupefied by Cuban Americans who danced in the streets after reports that Fidel Castro was forced to transfer power to his brother Raul before undergoing surgery a few days ago. read more.. |
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| MIAMI, USA (AFP): Moderates among Miami's Cuban exiles on Wednesday branded open displays of jubilation over Fidel Castro's illness frivolous and embarrassing to the 800,000 Cuban-Americans there. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Pressure mounted Thursday on Raul Castro to prove he was in control as Cuba's interim leader as US President George W. Bush called on Cubans to push for democracy. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Cuba's Fidel Castro is "very alert" and resting after stomach surgery, a senior aide said on Wednesday, but the man who has governed for 47 years has not appeared in public since standing down temporarily this week. read more.. |
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HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters):  The communist government told nervous Cubans on Tuesday that Fidel Castro's life was not in danger, after the ailing U.S. foe who has dominated the nation for nearly 50 years said he had stepped down temporarily. This prompted speculation that he would not return to office. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Key events in the life of Cuban President Fidel Castro, who late Monday announced he was temporarily handing power over to his brother and Defense Minister Raul Castro, after undergoing intestinal surgery. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): After 44 years of sanctions meant to push Fidel Castro out of power, the United States sounded cautious but hopeful Tuesday, after the communist Cuban leader ceded power temporarily for the first time to his brother, following surgery. read more.. |
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HAVANA, Cuba (AFP):  Cuban President Fidel Castro said Monday he underwent surgery and had temporarily handed power to his brother, Raul, for the first time in his 47 years atop the communist government. Castro, who will turn 80 on August 13, made a "proclamation," read on television. read more.. |
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ROSEAU, Dominica:  Cuban Ambassador to Dominica, Oswaldo Cobacho Martinez, has praised the benefits to the Caribbean region of cooperation between Cuba and Latin America and the Caribbean countries. The Ambassador’s comments were made at the opening of the refurbished Nursing School. read more.. |
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| For a country long in the grip of a paralyzing economic malaise, Fidel Castro's May Day boast of 11.8 percent growth in the first three months of 2006 came as welcome news to a long suffering population. read more.. |
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ROSEAU, Dominica:  Dominica’s Prime Minister, Roosevelt Skerrit, has acknowledged the contribution of Cuban President, Dr Fidel Castro to humanity. The Dominican leader made the remarks last week at the opening ceremony for the newly refurbished Nursing School and Hostel. read more.. |
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ROSEAU, Dominica:  The bilateral relationship between Dominica and Cuba has deepened with the opening of the newly refurbished Nursing School and Nurses hostel on Wednesday. The Cuban Government has so far contributed materials in the amount of over $500,000. read more.. |
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ROSEAU, Dominica:  Dominicans are continuing to benefit from the Eye Care Programme, an initiative of the Governments of Cuba and Venezuela. Since the initiative dubbed Miracle Mission started in July, 2005, well over 1300 Dominicans have received free surgical eye treatment in Cuba. read more.. |
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| BAYAMO, Cuba (AFP): Cuban President Fidel Castro, who turns 80 next month and has been in power for almost 48 years, joked Wednesday that he did not plan to be leading Cuba if and when he hits the 100-year mark. read more.. |
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| MIAMI, USA (Reuters): A federal court judge ordered Miami's public school system on Monday to lift a ban on a children's book about Cuba that critics say fails to paint a bleak picture of life on the communist-ruled island. read more.. |
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SAO PAULO, Brazil (Bloomberg):  Cuban President Fidel Castro, on his first trip abroad since December, warned of uncertain consequences from the global boom in commodities prices. Castro also took advantage of the meeting to embrace Venezuela as an important source of the region's oil. read more.. |
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| CORDOBA, Argentina (Reuters): Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez marked his nation's debut as a member of South America's biggest trade bloc on Thursday at a two-day summit that also drew his friend, Cuban leader Fidel Castro. read more.. |
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| CORDOBA, Argentina (AFP): Cuban leader Fidel Castro arrived Thursday at a Mercosur trade summit, a guest of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and incoming member, Venezuela. read more.. |
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| MADRID, Spain: Cuban teenage sensation Dayron Robles said he's keen on putting up a fight against Liu Xiang, China's newly crowned world record holder in the men's 110m Hurdles. read more.. |
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| Washington’s embargo against Cuba has been a longstanding obstacle to U.S.-Cuban relations of any kind, but the emergence of economic opportunities in the Cuban market has prompted a possible thaw in the historic hostilities. read more.. |
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| MIAMI, USA (UPI): U.S. authorities have arrested a friend of known Cuban exiled militant Luis Posada Carriles, The Miami Herald reported Thursday. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Cuban President Fidel Castro, who turns 80 next month, is an "extraordinarily healthy" man who continues to work very hard every day, parliamentary speaker Ricardo Alarcon said. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP) : Cuba on Tuesday reacted with indignation to a plan approved by US President George W. Bush to promote democratic change on the communist-ruled island. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): US President George W. Bush on Monday approved an additional 80 million dollars to help foster Cuban democracy and pressure President Fidel Castro, whose government called the effort "embarrassing." read more.. |
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| CAIMITO, Cuba (Reuters): They do not come to Cuba for the beaches and tropical mystique that draw more than 2 million other visitors each year. Instead they come to spend their vacations working in the countryside under a blazing sun. read more.. |
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| MIAMI, USA (AFP): An illegal Cuban migrant woman died in a failed bid to reach Florida shores Saturday after US Coast Guards intercepted a small boat overloaded with 31 bruised and exhausted people, the US Coast Guards said. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): A US Cabinet-led panel recommended tightening an embargo against Cuba and boosting opposition financing, warning that Cuba is teamed with Venezuela in a bid to thwart regional democracy. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): The number of Cubans political prisoners dropped to 316 from 333 in the first six months of this year, but the government stepped up extrajudicial harassment of opponents, the island's main rights group said on Wednesday. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Two senior Cuban officials charged on Wednesday that a report on the communist nation delivered to the Bush administration's National Security Council amounted to a blueprint for an Iraq-style regime change in the Caribbean. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): US President George W. Bush on Wednesday met with members of the National Security Council to discuss prospects for bringing democracy to communist-ruled Cuba. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Football is suffering in Cuba because it comes low on the priority list way behind the Caribbean island's top sport of baseball, according to respected coach Roberto Hernandez. read more.. |
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| NEW YORK, USA: Humanitarian agency Church World Service (CWS) is protesting the recommendations in an advance draft it has received of a new report by the Bush Administration's Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Mariela Castro is leading a Cuban revolution less well known than her Uncle Fidel's: one in favour of sexual tolerance within the island's macho society. read more.. |
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| KARLOVY VARY, Czech Republic (AFP): American actor Andy Garcia said he hoped for "a rapid transformation" in Cuba, the country where he was born, when he presented his first film as director at the Karlovy Vary international film festival on Saturday. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (Reuters): The United States should act fast to boost a transitional government in Cuba when President Fidel Castro's rule ends and get advisers on the ground within weeks, a U.S. government report recommends. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): The Cuban government has stepped up arrests and harassment of critics as it prepares to host the Nonaligned Movement Summit in September, a human rights organization on the island charged on Thursday. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): In what scientists billed as a breakthrough, Cuba has developed the first monoclonal antibody from transgenic plants -- dubbed a "plantibody" -- used in making a human vaccine. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Cuban authorities last week jailed a senior Communist Party member for 12 years for corruption in a rare sanction against high level fraud. read more.. |
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| MIAMI, USA (UPI): Elsa Alvarez, who was arrested in January for allegedly spying for Cuba, has been released on $400,000 bond from a Miami Federal Detention Center. read more.. |
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| MIAMI, USA (AFP): A Cuban exile acquitted of plotting to assassinate Fidel Castro admitted in an interview published Thursday that he had indeed planned to kill the Cuban leader in 1997. read more.. |
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| MIAMI, USA (Reuters): The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against Miami's public school system on Wednesday, saying its ban on a children's book about travel to Cuba was unconstitutional. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Cuba has sentenced a leading member of the Communist Party to 12 years in prison for corruption in what the country's only legal political organization said was proof no one stands above the law. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (Bloomberg): The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to question Swedish Match AB's right to sell cigars in the U.S. under the Cohiba brand name, turning away an appeal by a company owned by the Cuban government. read more.. |
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| MIAMI, USA (UPI): Nearly 100 protesters gathered in Miami to oppose a ban on traveling to Cuba, the Miami Herald reported. read more.. |
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| MIAMI, USA (UPI): Miami school officials have decided to ban a controversial book about Cuba from public school libraries, The Miami Herald reported Thursday. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Cuban Defense Minister Raul Castro denied the military would take over after his brother President Fidel Castro died or left office, insisting in a speech published on Thursday that the Cuban Communist Party would lead the nation. read more.. |
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| TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (Reuters): Honduras is becoming a key staging point for human trafficking rings bringing undocumented Cuban immigrants to the United States, authorities said on Thursday. read more.. |
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| NEW YORK, USA (Bloomberg): When Ignacio Berroa was touring with Dizzy Gillespie's band in the 1980s, his Cuban accent would prompt people to ask, "Are you the percussionist?" "No," he'd reply. "I'm the drummer!" read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): A week-long US power struggle with Cuba ended Tuesday when electricity returned to the US mission in Havana, but a US spokesman doubted storms were to blame for the lengthy blackout. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (Bloomberg): High oil prices are driving a wedge between energy companies and the Cuban-American community, two pillars of support for President George W. Bush and his fellow Republicans. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): The United States said on Monday the Cuban government had cut off electricity to its diplomatic mission in Havana, accusing it of engaging in "bullying tactics." read more.. |
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| LUXEMBOURG, (AFP): The European Union criticised Cuba on Monday for the deterioration of human rights on the island but decided not to reintroduce sanctions against President Fidel Castro's regime. read more.. |
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| MIAMI, USA (AFP): US officials warned Monday the season's first tropical storm could unleash life-threatening floods and mud slides as Cuban officials evacuated 25,000 people from Alberto's path. read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP): Petroleos de Venezuela SA, South America's largest energy company, pledged to help Cuba increase production of oil and improve the quality of gasoline. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (UPI): Five Cubans serving lengthy prison terms for espionage-related acts in the United States are being hailed as heroes in their native land. read more.. |
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| UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters): Cuba complained on Friday that the United States denied a visa to the head of its delegation to a UN AIDS conference, but a US spokesman said he applied too late. read more.. |
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| JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP): Visiting Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque said Friday his country was sending 135 medical specialists to treat survivors of the earthquake on Indonesia's Java island. read more.. |
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