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Cuban Economists in Congress
HAVANA, Cuba, Jun 13 (acn) Some 250 Cuban economists and accountants are analyzing issues relevant to Cuban economy during the 7th Congress of their national association, which opened doors Thursday at ...
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Cubans Pay Tribute to Che Guevara
SANTA CLARA, Cuba, Jun 13 (acn) Cuban students and workers from several provinces lay a flower every day at the niches treasuring the mortal remains of Ernesto Che Guevara and his compatriots killed in Bolivia, at the Memorial built in their honor in this central ...
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Tribute to French Art Director for Promoting Cuban Culture
Paris, Jun 18 (Prensa Latina) Diplomats, officials, and intellectuals attended in this capital today a tribute to artistic director and film director Dominique Roland, recently awarded with the medal for the Cuban Culture. Roland, director of the Center for the Arts in Enghien-les-Bains, a commune in northern Paris, has dedicated more than 20 years to promote the Cuban music. Thanks to this ...
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Ladies in White Returning to Cuba Re-energized
When Berta Soler, leader of Cuba's dissident Ladies in White, returned to the island last month after her first-ever trip abroad, she felt ready to resume the grinding struggle against the communist government. Soler had received a hero's welcome in the United States and Europe. Large audiences had applauded her denunciations of the Castro system. And her group had secured new ...
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Raul Holds Talks with African Statesman
HAVANA, Cuba, Jun 17 (acn) Army General Raul Castro, President of the councils of State and Ministers, met on Monday afternoon with Manuel Pinto da Costa, President of the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe, who is on an official visit to ...
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Human Rights Council Adopts Cuba-sponsored Resolutions
HAVANA, Cuba, June 18 (acn) The UN Human Rights Council adopted four Cuba-sponsored resolutions during its 23rd session, held May 27 to June 14 in ...
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Havana Hosts International Forum on Industrial Design
HAVANA, Cuba, June 17 (acn) The 7th International Forum on Industrial ...
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Cuban Hero Rene Gonzalez Pays Tribute to Che Guevara
HAVANA, Cuba, June 18 (acn) Cuban hero Rene Gonzalez paid homage on Monday to Cuban-Argentinean guerrilla fighter Ernesto Che Guevara at the memorial that treasures his mortal remains in the central city of Santa ...
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US collegians to host Cuba in July
DES MOINES, Iowa -; The U.S. collegiate national baseball team will host its Cuban counterpart next month in a five-game international "friendship" ...
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Songa Mercur to Depart Cuba for Vietnam
Songa Mercur (mid-water semisub) is departing Cuba for Vietnam after failing to find oil, AFP reported on Tuesday. Drilling work in Cuba was suspended because of a problem-plagued exploration well, and the start of the hurricane season, reported the state-run Agencia de Informacion National (AIN). Songa Mercur was drilling in shallow waters in the central Cuban province of Ciego de Avila about ...
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Chinese premier meets Cubas first vice-president
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Tuesday met with Cuban First Vice-President Miguel Diaz-Canel and pledged to further boost cooperation between the two countries.During the meeting, Li hailed the traditional friendship between China and Cuba.He highlighted their mutual support on national sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity, and the paths of socialist development suitable to their ...
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NBA Draft 2013 rumors Mark Cuban says Dallas Mavericks likely to trade No. 13 pick
Mark Cuban was blunt when asked about the possibility of the Dallas Mavericks dealing their first-round draft pick, essentially telling a Dallas radio station that the team intended on getting rid of the No. 13 overall selection. The report comes from the Dallas Morning News, who transcribed an interview Cuban had on ...
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Russias Zarubezhneft suspends search for oil in Cuba
A Norwegian-owned drilling platform will depart Cuba for Vietnam this week, after six months of exploration that so far has failed to yield any oil, official media in Havana reported on Tuesday. The state-run Agencia de Informacion National (AIN) said the drilling work in Cuba will be suspended because of unspecified "geological complications," and the start this month of the ...
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Cubas Resolution on Puerto Rico Stresses at UN
Havana, Jun 18 (Prensa Latina) Edwin Gonzalez, delegate of the Puerto Rican Mission in Havana, stressed the importance of the draft resolution submitted by Cuba on his country in the UN Decolonization Committee, Granma newspaper reported. The fact that the "UN participate on the matter is of vital importance to our independentist intentions, as the U.S. justification for ignoring the matter ...
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Mark Cuban Says He’ll Let Free Agents Help Shape Team
';What is his sales pitch to big free agents? Mark Cuban: ‘Part of the sales pitch that we're making if we sign one of these max-out type guys is Dirk [Nowitzki] comes off the books next year, Shawn Marion comes off the books next year. All we have is Jared [Cunningham] and Jae [Crowder] on the books next year, and so in essence you get to come in and it's you and we have ...
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Raul Castro Meets President of Sao Tome and Principe
Havana, Jun 18 (Prensa Latina) President Raul Castro met Manuel Pinto da Costa, President of the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe, who continues today an official visit to this country. Both leaders referred to the relations of friendship and cooperation between their countries, expressed their interest in strengthening bilateral ties, and also talked on international issues. ...
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Couple Sought Asylum in Cuba Said Childrens Lives in Danger Lawyer Says
The Tampa couple accused of kidnapping their sons at gunpoint and absconding on a sailboat across the Gulf of Mexico tried to formally seek asylum from Cuban authorities, asserting the lives of their children were at risk from U.S. government officials, one parent’s lawyer said ...
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Castro targets kids fashion
CAST ) today officially announced that it is entering the children's clothing market. Castro CEO and owner Gabi Rotter said, "We plan entering this market in a very significant way from the outset. This is an engine of growth for us and very necessary. Our role is to bring good news to the children's fashion market and we want to be a market leader. Children's fashion is not ...
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Henderson Stalemate with Cuba has to end
Did you know, for instance, that someone in the United States can't mail a simple letter directly to Cuba? Since 1963, that prohibition has been part of the U.S. embargo against the island nation. The only way someone from either country could get a letter through to family or friends was to route it through some other ...
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Australian abruptly ends Cuba-Fla. swim attempt
HAVANA (AP) - Australian endurance swimmer Chloe McCardel ended her attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida after 11 hours in the water when she was stung by a jellyfish Wednesday ...
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Cubana de Aviacion Reinforces its Fleet With a New AN-158
HAVANA, Cuba, Apr 23 (acn) A new Antonov 158 (AN-158) aircraft manufactured in Russia and Ukraine joined the fleet of Cubana de Aviacion airline and it will cover, starting in May, the Havana-Guantanamo route, five times a week, and Havana-Santiago de Cuba, on daily ...
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Cuban Projects Tackle Food Sustainability and Climate Change
CAMAGUEY, Cuba, Apr 23 (acn) Cuba will implement this year in three municipalities a project whose experiences will later be spread countrywide to achieve sustainability in the agriculture, taking into account the adaptation to climate ...
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Nicaraguan Business Mission to Visit Cuba
HAVANA, Cuba, April 8 (acn) A group of Nicaraguan entrepreneurs will visit Cuba in May to explore business opportunities, based on the benefits contributed by the use of the new regional currency known as ...
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Visually Impaired Children Hold their First Artistic Festival
HAVANA, Cuba, April 8 (acn) The first artistic and literary festival of visually impaired children residing in Havana was held Sunday in a downtown movie theater and it was dedicated to the 7th Congress of the National Association for the Blind (ANSI), to take place in ...
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All Cubans Wins Medals in the Visotski Boxing Memorial
HAVANA, Cuba, Apr 7 (acn) The six Cubans attending the Yakov Antonovich Visotski Boxing Memorial had an excellent performance when reaching four scepters and two bronze ...
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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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