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BBC NEWS | Americas | US politicians meet 'fit' Castro »
Posted by: rightfromwrong 8 months ago in Arts & Entertainment
Mr Castro has not been seen in public since he was taken ill, and ceded power to his brother Raul last year.
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Relations between US, Cuba seem within reach »
Posted by: suzanek 7 months, 3 weeks ago in News
Talks toward a thaw in U.S.-Cuba relations seemed to be a real possibility after the new presidents of both countries reached out to ...
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3 Gitmo prisoners sent to Ireland, Yemen »
Posted by: Eagle_Eye 2 months, 1 week ago in News
WASHINGTON - With the closing of the Guantanamo Bay prison by a January deadline in doubt, the Justice Department Saturday announced the transfer of three detainees ...
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Freedom by Permission »
Posted by: populist 7 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
Jefferson emphasized that people had fundamental, inherent, natural, and God-given rights and that such rights preexist government. People call government into existence to protect the ...
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Farewell to the American Century -- Andrew Bacevich »
Posted by: berkeley 7 months, 1 week ago in Political News
The net effect is to perpetuate an array of illusions that, whatever their value in prior decades, have long since outlived their usefulness. In short ...
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Ex-Detainee of U.S. Describes a 6-Year Ordeal »
Posted by: Neophile 11 months ago in News
When Muhammad Saad Iqbal arrived home here in August after more than six years in American custody, including five at the military prison at Guantanamo ...
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Castro says he doubts he’ll be lucid in 4 years »
Posted by: mafihotz 10 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Fidel Castro suggested Thursday that his health is failing, saying that four years from now he doesn’t expect to be following current events.
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Cuba Foreign Minister says ready for talks with US »
Posted by: MyWayOnNow 1 month, 1 week ago in News
Cuba is willing to hold talks with the United States "on any level," Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said Wednesday in conciliatory remarks aimed at ...
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Anthony DePalma: History Lessons on Cuba for a New President »
Posted by: MyWayOnNow 11 months, 1 week ago in Political News
I first set foot in Havana 30 years ago because Jimmy Carter thought he could end the tensions that had torn apart millions of families ...
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Obama Administration Making Progress on Transferring Guantanamo Detainees »
Posted by: tehranchik 3 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
The Obama administration has secured commitments from nearly a dozen countries willing to accept detainees from Guantanamo Bay and is increasingly confident about its ability ...
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Cuba nixes key meeting over ‘very serious’ crisis »
Posted by: Eagle_Eye 4 months, 1 week ago in Political News
HAVANA - Cuba on Friday suspended plans for a Communist Party congress and lowered its 2009 economic growth projection to 1.7 percent — nearly a full ...
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NY Foreign Policy Examiner: Chuck Hagel: Russia's bombs in the Western Hemisphere »
Posted by: Sasha56 8 months, 3 weeks ago in News
Former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel just returned from Russia where he met with Foreign Minister Lavrov, President Medvedev and presumably Prime Minister Putin. He appeared ...
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Castro 'reflects' on health, praises Obama »
Posted by: MyWayOnNow 10 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Former Cuban President Fidel Castro made the remarks in closing the latest edition of his "Reflections" essays that typically are posted on a government Web ...
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U.S., Cuba to hold postal service talks - diplomats | U.S. | Reuters »
Posted by: Patience 3 months, 1 week ago in News
* U.S. Cuba to hold talks on resuming direct postal service
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* Talks will take place in Havana in mid-September
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Senate Democrats Pull Funds To Close Guantanamo : NPR »
Posted by: calitennflo 6 months, 3 weeks ago in News
A military guard outside Guantanamo's medium-security prison, Camp IV. The Senate Appropriations Committee had included $50 million in a supplemental bill last week for ...
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