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11 hrs ago | The State

Relatives in eastern Cuba say woman has turned 125

Relatives in eastern Cuba claim to have held a 125th birthday party for a woman named Juana Bautista de la Candelaria Rodriguez, but it is not clear if she is really that old.

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16 hrs ago | CBC News

Ex-Guantanamo detainee to play self on stage

Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Mamdouh Habib, seen at right with his wife, Maha, in 2006, will star in a stage production based on his experiences at the infamous U.S.-run prison.

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

Yesterday | The Huffington Post

Yoani Sanchez: A Cuban Political Prisoner Nears Death, Is the World Watching?

Today's guest post is from the blog, Crossing the Barbed Wire , by Luis Felipe Rojas , a free and independent writer, journalist and poet from the town of San German in Holguin, Cuba.

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Related Topix: Prison, World News, Fidel Castro,

Sun Feb 07, 2010

Penticton Herald

Members of Russiaa s Bolshoi ballet to perform in Cuba for first time in 30 years

HAVANA, Cuba - Several leading members of Russia's famed Bolshoi ballet will perform with their Cuban counterparts during a visit to Havana next week.

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Related Topix: World News, Arts, Ballet

Sat Feb 06, 2010

New York Times

Site for Terror Trial Isn't Its Only Obstacle

For much of President Obama 's first year in office, his national security team worked to devise a secure plan to send dozens of Yemeni detainees held at Guantanamo Bay , Cuba - the largest single group at the prison camp - home to Yemen, perhaps to a rehabilitation program.

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Related Topix: US News, US Military Prisons, World News, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, New York, NY, US Politics, US Senate, Republican, Lindsey Graham

Fri Feb 05, 2010

Caribbean Net News

Opposition says Cuban dissidents beaten, harassed

Cuban police harassed and briefly jailed some 35 political dissidents this week in the eastern city of Camaguey, a Cuban human rights group said Friday.

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Related Topix: World News, Activism

Prensa Latina

11:17 Fire Danger in Cuba I...

Havana, Feb 5 The Cuban National Forest Ranger Corps predicted an increase of fire danger in the country, due to poor rain during the last four months, said Granma newspaper on Friday.

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Related Topix: Central America, World News

Thu Feb 04, 2010

Travel Industry Wire

Next Year in Havana? - By Timothy Ashby

Next year will mark a half-century since the Bay of Pigs, the failed assault on Fidel Castro's young regime in Cuba that helped incite the long cold war across the Straits of Florida.

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Related Topix: World News, Central America, Fidel Castro, New York, Hugo Chavez, Travel

Wed Feb 03, 2010

CW33 Dallas KDAF-TV

Venezuela's Chavez turns to Cuban help with energy crisis, baffling critics

President Hugo Chavez has turned to his friends in Cuba for help in tackling Venezuela's energy crisis, drawing criticism for seeking advice from the communist-led island that has struggled with its own electricity woes.

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Related Topix: World News, Central America, Hugo Chavez, Raul Castro

KTVN Reno

Swiss taking Uighur brothers held by US since 2002

A decision by Switzerland to give a home to two Chinese Muslim brothers detained at Guantanamo Bay for nearly eight years could allow the Obama administration to avoid a difficult Supreme Court argument over whether a judge can order detainees released into the United States.

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

Globe and Mail

Tories stand pat on Omar Khadr

Wednesday, February 3, 2010 10:50 AM Tories stand pat on Omar Khadr T he Conservative government will not ask for Omar Khadr to be repatriated from an American detention centre in Cuba despite a Supreme Court ruling that his rights have been violated, the Foreign Affairs Minister said Wednesday.

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

Tue Feb 02, 2010

ABC News

In Eastern Cuba, Wax Hemingway Looks Spookily Real

A wax figure of U.S. writer Ernest Hemingway is seen at an exhibition at Bayamo wax museum in Cuba,... A wax figure of U.S. writer Ernest Hemingway is seen at an exhibition at Bayamo wax museum in Cuba, Tuesday, Feb.2, 2010.A life-size likeness of the legendary author of "The Old Man and the Sea" was unveiled last week at a wax museum in the ...

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Related Topix: Ernest Hemingway, Vocal, World News, Travel

Star Phoenix

Mantanzas is where Cuba's spirit of survival burns the greatest

Men sell garlic and homemade peanut paste bars furtively along a highway in Matanzas province in Cuba.

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Mon Feb 01, 2010

Caribbean Net News

In Cuba, peso makes a comeback, pleasing customers

Retail outlets selling everything in Cuban pesos are popping up across the country in what may be the government's first steps toward phasing out its unpopular two-currency system.

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Related Topix: World News, Central America, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, Raul Castro,

Jordan News.Net

Catholic officials in Cuba say economic situation is bad

The Catholic Archdiocese in Havana has stated that Cuba's economic situation may be close to free fall.

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Related Topix: Central America, World News, Roman Catholic Church, Religion,

Sun Jan 31, 2010

Mediaite.com

Cuban Blogger: Writers Fired For a oeImproper Use of the Interneta

Cuban blogger Orlando Luis Pardo reported earlier this week on citizen journalism portal All Voices that award-winning writers Manuel Garcia Verdecia and Rafael Vilches Proenza were fired from their jobs and expelled from the local writers union for improper use of the Internet.

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Related Topix: Blog News, Journalism, World News, Opinion

Sat Jan 30, 2010

RTE.ie

Spain to probe Guantanamo torture claims

Spain's top investigating judge Baltasar Garzon is to probe suspected torture and ill-treatment of inmates at the US prison of Guantanamo Bay, the daily El Pais has reported.

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

Vancouver Courier

Cuba's 'totalitarian' society highlights capitalism's cracks

I was 30,000 feet in the air, trying to fall asleep with a copy of US magazine that was devoted entirely to celebrity dieting.

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Related Topix: World News, Central America, Body Image, Health, Opinion

Fri Jan 29, 2010

National Post

Supreme Court rejects Khadr repatriation request

The Supreme Court of Canada has refused to order the Harper government to seek Omar Khadr's repatriation from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

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

Thu Jan 28, 2010

The Boston Globe

Date set for Cuba-US immigration talks in Havana

Cuba wants to negotiate an agreement with the U.S. to slow the trafficking of its citizens fleeing the island and hopes to tackle the issue during immigration talks rescheduled for February, the foreign minister said Thursday.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, World News, Central America, Prison,

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