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Low Infant Mortality Rate in Cuba's Holguin
Havana, Jul 7 The eastern Cuban province of Holguin, venue of the central activities on the occasion of the National Rebelliousness Day on July 26, has achieved an infant mortality rate of 3.5 per each 1,000 babies born alive.
WestJet Adds 11 New Destinations
WestJet Airlines is expanding its reach outside Canada. Starting next winter, the airline will add U.S. routes to Lihue, Hawaii; Miami, Florida.
This country reached a tipping point in 2006. It wasn't any one event in particular, but according to Cuba's Office of National Statistics, the island's population of 11.2 million stopped growing that year, and dipped slightly.
In Senate, Debate on Detainee Legal Rights
Obama administration lawyers said Tuesday at a Senate hearing that detainees prosecuted by military commissions should have some of the same constitutional rights as American citizens tried in civilian criminal courts.
Sudden deaths of 11 Cuban cancer patients called medical negligence
Miami Lakes resident Norma Flores still can't make sense of the unexpected death of her sister, Marisel Gutirrez, who was satisfactorily recovering from a cancer operation.
Stench from Guantanamo still won't wash off
Apparently, Congress has detected some footnotes to Emma Lazarusa famous poem engraved inside the Statue of Liberty: a oeGive me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.a But dona t bother sending anyone released from detention at Guantanamo Bay.
Binyam Mohamed the former Guantanamo detainee fights legal...
A former Guantnamo detainee has launched a legal attempt to prevent the US from destroying evidence that he claims proves he was abused while being held at the detention camp.
Defense in Sept. 11 case seeks 'black site' access
Lawyers for an alleged Sept. 11 plotter held at Guantanamo want to inspect secret CIA overseas prisons, saying in court papers Monday the conditions in the so-called black sites may yield insight into a mental disorder that has raised questions about whether he is competent to stand trial.
Over 95 Per 100,000 Cubans Nurses
Havana, Jul 2 Cuba had 828 nurses after the triumph of the Revolution, and now there are over 107,000 in a display of health indicators comparable to those of developed countries.
Archbishop worships with Navy and Cubans
The head of the Archdiocese for the Military Services USA crossed between the Navy base at Guantanamo and Guantanamo province, worshipping in both places.
Yes, in my backyard: Illinois town among few in US lobbying to get Guantanamo detainees
Once the nation's most secure prison, the federal lockup in southern Illinois has housed everyone from spies to a Colombian druglord to dapper mob boss John Gotti.
Cuba pulls plug on Canadian mission to Havana
Peter Kent, minister of state of Foreign Affairs for the Americas, has had his trip to Cuba postponed.
President Barack Obama has ordered the detention facility closed next year. It holds more than 200 terror suspects whose cases are undergoing review for their potential release, prosecution or continued confinement.
Cubans get official OK for multiple jobs
Cuba is letting workers hold multiple government jobs for the first time under an overhaul of the island's labor system.
Guantanamo detainee seeks 'Black Sites' access
Lawyers for a Guantanamo detainee charged with terrorism crimes have asked the U.S. government to preserve overseas locations where he was subjected to "physical and psychological ill-treatment" at secret CIA prisons known as "black sites" until they can inspect them.
Gitmo detainee seeks to suppress interrogations
Attorneys for a Guantanamo Bay prisoner asked a federal judge Wednesday to exclude as evidence against him the statements he made during at least 57 interrogations since his capture, saying they were the result of torture and other coercion.
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Bogota, Jun 30 A warm welcome was given to participants to the 1st Cartagena-La Habana Son Festival in Cartagena, a Colombian city that shares cultural similarities with Havana.
New flights begin today from LAX to Cuba
Angelenos with family in Cuba will have another option for travel today, when a Long Beach-based company kicks off nonstop flights from LAX to Havana.
Reggaeton fever shakes up Cuba's culture
To record his next hit El Micha, one of the rising stars of Cuba's reggaeton music blending reggae, Latin and electronic rhythms, just has to knock on his neighbour's door.
Detainees from over 20 nations still at Guantanamo
Approximately 229 detainees from "about two dozen countries" are still held in Guantanamo, according to the latest Pentagon figures, provided to AFP.