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President Xi meets Cuban VP on stronger ties
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday met with Miguel Diaz-Canel, Cuban first vice-president of the councils of state and ministers.Xi asked Diaz-Canel to convey his greetings to Cuban President Raul Castro and former leader Fidel Castro.Xi reviewed the growth of China-Cuba relations since the two countries forged diplomatic relations in 1960, particularly the increasingly mature relations and ...
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Cuban womens judo team to compete in Russia Brazil
Cuba's four-member women's judo team, led by Olympic champion Idalis Ortiz, will compete in Russia and Brazil, sports news website JIT said Tuesday.The women will first compete at the World Universiade of Kazan, Russia in July, then travel to France for training before attending the World Championship next August in Brazil, coach Ronaldo Veitia said."We will attend the 27 ...
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US Set for Negotiations With Taliban Who Want Commanders Released From Guantanamo Bay
A US Army soldier walks through a cell block at Camp Delta at Guantanamo Naval Base in Guantanamo, Cuba, in 2004. US military hearings on the "enemy combatant" status of 14 top terror suspects began Friday at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba out of sight of the media and defense ...
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Burger Joint Robber Shot Dead By Deputies In Castro Valley Was Wanted Parolee
fatally shot in a confrontation with two Alameda County sheriff's deputies at a restaurant in Castro Valley on Friday night was a parolee at large from Oakland, authorities said Tuesday. Sheriff's spokesman Sgt. J.D. Nelson identified the suspect as 32-year-old Quincy Williams and said he had three felony convictions for robbery, drugs and theft. Williams also had ...
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Cuban family says repression forced them to flee to US
MIAMI (AP) — The daughter of a prominent Cuban dissident who died in a car crash says her family decided to seek refuge in the U.S. after facing continued repression.Rosa Maria Paya and her mother spoke with reporters Tuesday in Miami.Paya traveled throughout Europe and the U.S. in April to push for an international investigation into her father's death.Oswaldo Paya was killed in a ...
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Cuban dissident Family supporters faced repression on island after return from US travel
MIAMI -- One of several Cuban dissidents recently allowed to visit Europe and the U.S. after Cuba changed its travel laws said Tuesday she decided to seek refuge in Miami after facing continued repression on the island. Rosa Maria Paya said she and her family have been the subject of threats, harassment and increased vigilance since her father's death last year and following her return to ...
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Police identify Oakland man fatally shot by deputy at Castro Valley burger joint
Quincy Williams, age 32, of Oakland, was shot and killed by an Alameda County sheriff's deputy Friday during an armed robbery at Boulevard Burger in Castro ...
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African leader emphasizes strength and example of Cuba
HAVANA, Cuba, Jun 3 (acn) The African nationalist leader Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia's first President (1964-1991), said in Havana that Cuba is an example of independence and the struggle for human ...
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Twelfth World Wind Energy Conference Underway in Cuba
HAVANA, Cuba, Jun 3 (acn) The development and prospects of the use of renewable energy sources in Cuba will capture, from today until Friday, the attention of the participants at the 12th World Wind Energy ...
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China Makes Donations to Cuba and Signs Cooperation Agreements
HAVANA, Cuba, Jun 3 (acn) Guo Jinlong, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), attended in this city a ceremony of donation and signing of documents as part of his official visit to Cuba ...
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Cuba Versus Turkey in Under 19 World Volleyball
Havana, Jun 18 (Prensa Latina) The Cuban male under-19 volleyball team will make its debut against Turkey in the start of the 13th World Championship of the category on June 27, to be disputed in two Mexican cities. The Cuban team will play its first match against Turkey in the city of Mexicali, the host for Pools B and D, and later it will meet Argentina on June 28, after that they will have a ...
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Bahamas Video of Cubans being kicked fraudulent
Sen. Bill Nelson is pushing hard for a probe into American tourists being arrested at Caribbean airports over the discovery of bullets in their ...
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Cubans pitch to prospective FAs Pick your team
Mavericks ' big-fish recruiting pitch includes essentially offering an assistant GM job and a squeaky-clean salary-cap picture for next summer. We'll see ...
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Local Development Projects Benefit Cuban Rural Sector
CIENFUEGOS, Cuba, Jun 18 (acn) More than twenty local development projects, applied in conjunction with foreign NGOs, benefit ...
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Controversial Cuban Vacation of Jay-Z and Beyonce Proven Legal
Celebrities really are just like us, even Jay-Z and Beyonce. Before taking their controversial vacation to Cuba in January, the couple had to file the same paperwork as the rest of us ...
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Cuba Certifies Quality of Sugar for Export
HAVANA, Cuba, May 29 (acn) Cuba completed the certification of the laboratory network involved in certifying in port the quality of exportable sugar, thus saving the need of using third ...
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Raul Meets with Visiting Chinese Party Leader Guo Jinlong
HAVANA, Cuba, Jun 2 (acn) Army General Raul Castro, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC), met on Saturday afternoon with Guo Jinlong, member of the Politburo and Secretary of the Communist Party of China in Beijing, who is on an official visit to the ...
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Jellyfish Thwart Choe McCardel Florida Straits Dream
HAVANA, Cuba, Jan 13 (acn) Australian Chloe McCardel quit her attempt to become the first swimmer to cross the Florida Straits, between Havana and the U.S, without using a shark cage after receiving severe jellyfish stings, her team announced Thursday on ...
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Cancer Major Cause for Death in Cuba
HAVANA, Cuba, June 8 (acn) Cancer became the first cause of death in Cuba followed by heart and cerebro-vascular conditions, in a country whose expectancy of life is set at 78.2 years for men and 81.3 years for ...
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UNESCO Executive to Visit Cuba
HAVANA, Cuba, June 8 (acn) The head of the Higher Education Office at the UN Education, Science and Culture Organization Paulina Gonzalez-Pose will visit Cuba this month to meet with local authorities and take part at a UNESCO ...
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Latin American Parliament Addressed Crucial Regional Issues
HAVANA,Cuba, June 8 (acn) With the adoption of a frame legislation on important regional issues, the session of the Latin American Parliament (PARLATINO) closed Friday in ...
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Cuba Hosts Meeting of Civil Aviation Directors
HAVANA, Cuba, May 28 (acn) The 13th Meeting of Directors of Civil Aviation of the region was inaugurated on Tuesday in this capital with analyses related to aerial navigation, operational safety and cooperation and instruction in Central ...
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Cuban Preparatory Committee for World Youth Students Festival Created
HAVANA, Cuba, May 28 (acn) The national preparatory committee (CNP) for the 18th World Youth and Students Festival, to be held in Quito, Ecuador, on December 7-13, was created in this capital on ...
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Esteban Lazo Visits UNESCO
HAVANA, Cuba, May 24 (acn) Esteban Lazo, member of the Politburo of the Cuban Communist Party and President of the ...
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The US People must be Informed on the Cuban Five Case
HAVANA, Cuba, May 29 (acn) Cuban anti-terrorist fighter Rene Gonzalez said in Havana that the American people must be provided with information about the case of the five Cubans, who were arrested in the U.S. for having thwarted actions by Miami-based ultra-right ...
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Cuba and Venezuela pushing ahead with major undersea project
Submarine cables are the information gateways of the modern world and Cuba will soon be linked to Venezuela and Jamaica by one, which will increase the efficiency of information flows between the countries by over 3000 times.
Work on an underwater cable that will link Cuba, Venezuela and Jamaica is underway with the survey ship RV Ridley Thomas mapping the ocean floor between the countries to determine the exact path of the cable. Read more
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