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1 hr ago | CPJ Press Freedom Online

Obama responses stun Cuban blogger Yoani S nchez

Cuban blogger Yoani SA nchez was astounded this week by President Barack Obama's decision to respond a written questionnaire SA nchez submitted to the White House.

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Related Topix: Blog News, Central America, World News

6 hrs ago | Bloomberg

Ex-U.S. Official, Wife Plead Guilty to Spying for Cuba Over Three Decades

A former U.S. State Department official and his wife pleaded guilty to charges they provided classified information about U.S. national defense to the Republic of Cuba for three decades.

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Related Topix: World News, Central America, Fidel Castro, US News

10 hrs ago | CNN

Cuban dissidents ramp up protest with fast

Cuban dissidents holed up in a Havana house for 36 days started a liquids-only fast this week that led a doctor to order one of them to go home for health reasons, one of the protesters told CNN on Friday.

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Related Topix: World News, Central America, Fidel Castro

Fri Nov 20, 2009

Cuba Journal

Hearing on "Is it Time to Lift the Ban on Travel to Cuba?"

United States House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs Full Committee Howard L. Berman , Chairman Is it Time to Lift the Ban on Travel to Cuba? You are respectfully requested to attend the following open hearing of the Full Committee to be held in Room 2172 of the Rayburn House Office Building.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Howard Berman, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, World News,

The Star Online

Obama praises dissident Cuban blogger Sanchez

U.S. President Barack Obama praised dissident Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez and said in a posting on her website on Thursday that he looks forward to the day "all Cubans can freely express themselves." Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez during an interview with Reuters in her house in Havana November 9, 2009.

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Related Topix: Blog News, World News, Central America, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Fidel Castro, Raul Castro

The Corner

Who Cares about Cuba? -- By: Jay Nordlinger

Lincoln Diaz-Balart gave a speech. His subject was the persecution of Cuban democrats, and the general ignoring of this persecution by the American press.

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Related Topix: World News, Central America, US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Lincoln Diaz-Balart,

Thu Nov 19, 2009

CNN

U.S. and Cuba practice softball diplomacy

A metaphorical timeout has been in place between the United States and Cuba for nearly 50 years.

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CCTV

Deadline to pass for closing Guantanamo prison

US President Barack Obama says the deadline set for the closure of the Guantanamo prison will be missed.

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Related Topix: Prison, US Military Prisons, World News, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Guantanamo Bay

Men's News Daily

Guantanamo Closure Date Still Undecided, says Obama

Despite is claims that progress is being made in closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, President Barack Obama acknowledged on Wednesday that the administration won't make the January 2010 deadline he set when he took office, according to Michael Carden of the American Forces Press Service .

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, World News, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, Guantanamo Bay, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Emmy Awards, Entertainment, Television

Wed Nov 18, 2009

Inter Press Service

CUBA: Fewer Storks Visiting Shiny Maternity Clinics

Women in Cuba cite a variety of reasons to explain their decision to have only one child, ranging from the housing shortage to the rising cost of living and the many work responsibilities they have to shoulder.

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Related Topix: World News, Medicine, Nursing, Kids, Motherhood

Guardian Unlimited

Military can reassign Gitmo detainee's lawyers - AP

A A A' The rights of a Guantanamo detainee facing trial in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa were not violated when the military took away his uniformed lawyers, a judge ruled Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Guantanamo Bay, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, World News, US Military, US Air Force

BBC

Obama admits delay on Guantanamo

US President Barack Obama has for the first time admitted that the US will miss the January 2010 deadline he set for closing the Guantanamo Bay prison.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, World News, US Politics, Barack Obama, US News, US Senate, Democrat

The Victoria Star

Top Cuban activist ends hunger strike, resumes normal diet amid reports she was gravely ill

HAVANA, Cuba - A hunger strike by a Cuban dissident has been a hot story for Miami-based Spanish-language media, and concern about her health even reached the halls of the U.S. Congress, where an anti-Castro lawmaker warned that she was "close to death." But Martha Beatriz Roque's condition and the extent of her fast were not clear until the ...

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Related Topix: Activism, World News, US News, US Politics, Republican, US House of Representatives, Lincoln Diaz-Balart

Tue Nov 17, 2009

KSTU - Fox 13

Fact Check: a look at moving Guantanamo detainees to Us prisons, possibly in Ill., Mich.

As the Obama administration considers a plan to move Guantanamo Bay detainees to prisons on U.S. soil, including possible sites in Illinois and Michigan, proponents and critics are spinning the facts.

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Related Topix: Prison, US Politics, US News, Peter Hoekstra, Republican, US House of Representatives, Barack Obama, US Senate, Democrat, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, World News, Guantanamo Bay

Crofsblogs.typepad.com

Cuba: Fighting flu with personal responsibility

Via PAZale, the blog of Dr. Alexis PA©rez SA nchez in Las Tunas, Cuba: A Una situaciA3n compleja? [A complex situation?] Excerpt, with my translation: Respecto a la Influenza A H1N1, segAon los especialistas, las acciones deben estar dirigidas a la vigilancia y a la pesquisa activa de casos con sA ntomas respiratorios en la comunidad y en los ...

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Related Topix: World News, H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health

MiamiHerald.com - Miami & Ft. Lauderd...

Cuban dissident ill from fast, but stable

One of seven Cuban dissidents who recently launched a fast to protest harassments suffered from complications due to diabetes, but is stable.

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Related Topix: Blog News, Prison, World News,

Mon Nov 16, 2009

Kansas City Star

A risky setting for NYC trial of 9/11 suspects

In a move both politically and legally risky, the Obama administration plans to put on trial the professed mastermind of the Sept.

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Related Topix: Terrorism, Guantanamo Bay, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, World News,

Star Phoenix

Go beyond the beach resorts to see Cuba's capital

Havana is not a common tourist destination for Canadians. Though some 700,000 Canadians travel to Cuba each year, most go to the popular resort areas of Varadero, Cayo Coco and Holguin, with maybe a day trip to Havana.

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Related Topix: Cuba Travel, Travel, World News,

Penticton Herald

Rally held in Edmonton to demand Omar Khadr be sent back to Canada

Several dozen people held a rally in downtown Edmonton to demand that Omar Khadr be sent back to Canada to face trial in a civilian court.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, World News,

Sun Nov 15, 2009

SABC News

Chavez asking Cubans to 'bomb clouds' amid drought

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez says he will join a team of Cuban scientists on flights to "bomb clouds" to create rain amid a severe drought that has aroused public anger due to water and electricity rationing.

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Related Topix: World News, Central America, Weather, Natural Disasters, Drought, Hugo Chavez

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