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New York Philharmonic mulls historic trip to Cuba

Incoming music director Alan Gilbert would conduct if the orchestra goes to Cuba.

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Tue Jul 07, 2009

WHEC-TV Rochester

Former AP editor Jose Sobrino dies in NYC at 79

NEW YORK - Spanish-born journalist Jose Sobrino Dieguez has died at his Manhattan home.

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Fri Jul 03, 2009

Post-Standard

Syracuse woman plans to be part of group to defy US law, aid Cubans

Syracuse resident and Christian Brothers Academy graduate Madelaine Greacen will travel to Cuba later this month with an ecumenical group that will defy U.S. law to deliver humanitarian aid.

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Earth Times

Media group slams Nicaragua's Ortega for harassing journalists

Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega, more than other leaders in the region, has waged an aggressive campaign against the media and considers journalists enemies to his government, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Wednesday.

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Wed Jul 01, 2009

Buffalo News

Former restaurant owner admits stealing tax revenue

The former owner of a defunct Allegany County restaurant plead guilty Monday to stealing more than $46,000 in sales tax revenue he collected from customers over a three year period, the state Department of Taxation and Finance reported.

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Thu Jun 25, 2009

Newsday.com

Spanish lawmakers vote to limit cross-border justice law used to indict Pinochet, bin Laden

Spanish legislators voted Thursday to change a law that let judges indict Osama bin Laden and Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, narrowing its scope to cases with a clear link to this country and yielding to criticism that Spain should not act like a global cop.

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Tue Jun 23, 2009

Democrat & Chronicle

Life of Seneca storyteller is quite the story in itself

Marian Miller was a big-picture person. A beloved Native American storyteller, Miller loved the Seneca Indian stories 'of how things came to be,' says Joseph Bruchac, a fellow storyteller and author from Greenfield Center, Saratoga County.

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Sun Jun 21, 2009

Middletown Times Herald Record

Check out the winners of our Father-Child Look-Alike contest

The old adages 'Like father, like son' and 'Chip off the old block' are especially appropriate for Rafael and Christian Osorio.

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Thu Jun 18, 2009

Jewish World Review

Jack Kelly:

American households lost $1.3 trillion in net worth in the first three months of this year, thanks to declining stock prices and home values, the Federal Reserve reported last week.

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Tue Jun 16, 2009

Buffalo News

EU agrees to take Guantanamo detainees

The European Union agreed on Monday to help the administration of President Barack Obama "turn the page" on Guantanamo, saying individual EU nations will take detainees from the American prison in Cuba.

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Sun Jun 14, 2009

Buffalo News

Administration speeds overseas detainee relocation

This July 2005 file photo originally provided by the Army Corps of Engineers shows an aerial view of two causeways built on the northeast coast of the island of Babeldoab, the largest of Palau's more than 300 islands.

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Fri Jun 12, 2009

Fox News

Obama Won't Rule Out Releasing Detainees in U.S.

One of three Guantanamo Bay detainees transferred by the Obama administration to Saudi Arabia had been implicated in the murder of an American.

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Thu Jun 11, 2009

The Nation

An Empire of Vice

Three days before Christmas in 1946, Havana's Hotel Nacional was closed for a private meeting.

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Times Union

4 Chinese Muslims freed from Guantanamo to Bermuda

Four Guantanamo Bay detainees have been released and resettled in Bermuda, U.S. officials said Thursday.

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Wed Jun 10, 2009

New York Times

Palau to Take Chinese Detainees

The United States has won an agreement to transfer up to 17 Chinese Muslims from the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay , Cuba, to Palau, a sparsely populated archipelago in the North Pacific, according to a statement released by Palau to The Associated Press on Wednesday.

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Mon Jun 08, 2009

Buffalo News

In battle for stimulus dollars, tiny lake is $7.4 million winner

Tiny Cuba Lake in Allegany County came up as a big winner Thursday in the battle for federal economic stimulus money, winning $7.4 million to end wastewater problems that have been polluting the small but popular vacation spot for years.

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Sat Jun 06, 2009

Black Enterprise

D.C. Couple Spied for Cuba for Decades, Feds Say

Jun. 6--WASHINGTON -- Walter Kendall Myers spent more than two decades deep in the bureaucracy of the U.S. State Department until this week, when federal authorities accused him of a life of intrigue and espionage as a clandestine agent for one of the United States' longtime antagonists: the communist government of Cuba.

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Fri Jun 05, 2009

New York Daily News

Fed info to Cuba for 30 years

The arrest of Walter Kendall Myers and his wife, Gwendolyn Steingraber, is considered by some has the worst spy arrest since FBI agent-turned-Russian spy Robert Hanssen.

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Buffalo News

US returns body of Guantanamo detainee to Yemen

The U.S. has returned the body of a Guantanamo detainee who apparently committed suicide to his native Yemen.

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Wed Jun 03, 2009

New York Times

Imposing Conditions, O.A.S. Lifts Its Suspension of Cuba

After two days of intense negotiations, the Organization of American States agreed Wednesday to lift a cold war provision that suspended Cuba from the group but also accepted a list of conditions, backed by Washington, that Havana would have to meet before being allowed to return.

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