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Santiago de Cuba, Feb 9 Experts from the National Scientific Research Center have developed a product from the royal palm to treat the benign prostatic hyperplasia or hypertrophy, said CENIC Director, Doctor Carlos Gutierrez.
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Wherever one travels in Cuba chances are you'll be offered some kind of local produce.
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In Cuba, peso makes a comeback, pleasing customers
The establishments opened the past year in a reversal of two decades of national policy that priced most goods and services in a dollar-linked convertible peso widely known by its acronym, the CUC.
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Los Van Van celebrates Jose Marti with Key West performance
It is not that Juan Formell, the leader of Los Van Van, Cuba's most famous dance band, doesn't have any political views.
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Hard labour for Haiti's mothers
Women are seen on September 4, 2009 at Port-au-Prince's Isaie Jeanty hospital where women can give birth for free.
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It wasn't actually done by CNN. The camera, and the images, are by Calgary based "Immersive Media" - the original creators of the images Google Maps used when they started "Street View" I presume this ws taken before the earthquake as there is no apparent damage? It looks almost exactly like driving through Santiago de Cuba.
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PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Aruan Ortiz Trio: Free Concert at Mason Gross Performing Arts Center
Acclaimed pianist Aruan Ortiz brings his hypnotic blend of avant-garde jazz and world music to Nicholas Music Center on Thursday, February 11.
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I felt it beneath my feet. A tiny grumble: an echo of something much bigger, far away.
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African, Afro-American Meeting in Cuba
Santiago de Cuba, Jan 20 More than 30 US, Brazilian, Spanish, Colombian, Panamanian, Cape Verdean and French researchers have confirmed their participation to the 11th International Conference on African and Afro-American Culture.
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Earthquake in Haiti: Gone in 30 seconds
Late afternoon, Tuesday 12 January, the Caribbean. The sun is subsiding in the west, and, for some, it's lazy time.
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16:10 Santiago de Cuba: the...
Santiago de Cuba, Jan 14 Even today, nearly 48 hours after the earthquake struck Haiti and its aftershocks in the region, apprehension dominates me at the computer, it was precisely there where I experienced a strange sick feeling before the balancing of my desk that afternoon.
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Quake scene: Fears for two trapped Americans
At least two Americans, one of them a young aid worker related to a retired senior U.S. naval officer, are believed to be among those trapped in wreckage after Haiti's earthquake.
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07:21 Artists from Abroad t...
Santiago de Cuba, Jan 7 Artists from ten countries are gathering in this city for the 9th International Mural Painting Meeting InterNos which will last till day 26 of the current month.
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Santiago de Cuba, Jan 8 The Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples will arrive at its half-century in December with a steadily increasing joint work towards the world, considered Kenia Serrano, president of the institution.
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14:56 Cold takes Santiago d...
Santiago de Cuba, Jan 8 Known as the "hot land", this Cuban eastern city, second in size and population in the island, is not accustomed to temperatures below 20 degrees Celsius.
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Mission society starts work in Cuba, Cambodia
The Children's Christian Concern Society, an LCMS mission organization, is starting new work in January in Cuba and Cambodia.
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Santiago, Cuba, Hosts Painting Biennial
Santiago, Cuba, Jan 6 The city of Santiago de Cuba is currently in an atmosphere of cultural collaboration and polychromy, during the 9th Inter-nos 2010 International Mural Painting Biennial, which will be coloring this locality until January 27.
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Canada and Mexico Among Popular Trends
Lonely Planet's U.S. staff's top picks: United States, Canada, South Africa, Mexico, Thailand, Cuba, Italy, Philippines, Brazil, Costa Rica.
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Ana Maria Agero Gell considered them friends, and each year for nearly 20, relished introducing them to a new crop of Coral Way Elementary School third graders.
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