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Press Association via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News - Tue Feb 14, 5:02 am ET
Cuba Gooding Jr has revealed his greatest ever Valentine's gift was his daughter.
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McClatchy Washington Bureau - Mon Feb 13, 5:00 pm ET
Two years before Pope John Paul II visited Cuba in 1998, then-Defense Minister Raúl Castro cracked down on a half-dozen young academics who had dared propose market reforms for the… Click to Continue »
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Sun Feb 12, 4:29 pm ET
The US embargo on Cuba, comprehensive economic sanctions which have now dragged on for 50 years without toppling Communism here, have made life in Cuba harder but forged Cubans' fierce survivor skills.
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Associated Press via Yahoo! News - Mon Feb 13, 9:07 am ET
Piece by piece, in backpacks and carry-on bags, American aid contractor Alan Gross made sure laptops, smartphones, hard drives and networking equipment were secreted into Cuba. The most sensitive item, according to official trip reports, was the last one: a specialized mobile phone chip that experts say is often used by the Pentagon and the CIA to make satellite signals virtually impossible to ...
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San Antonio Express-News - Sat Feb 11, 9:03 am ET
Cuba embargo Associated Press Copyright 2012 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 09:44 p.m., Tuesday, February 7, 2012 Supporters say it's a justified measure against a repressive government that never has stopped being a thorn in Washington's side. According to the most recent information available from Cuba ...
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The Canton Daily Ledger - Mon Feb 13, 11:10 pm ET
Spoon River Public Library District in Cuba will be closed Monday, Feb. 20,
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Sun-Sentinel - Sun Feb 12, 12:42 pm ET
Nearly two years after applying for a license to run a ferry between Port Everglades and Cuba, a Fort Lauderdale company still awaits government approval.
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The Wenatchee World - Tue Feb 14, 6:20 am ET
MIAMI _ Two years before Pope John Paul II visited Cuba in 1998, then-Defense Minister Raul Castro cracked down on a half-dozen young academics who had dared propose market reforms for the island's Soviet-styled economy. The Center for the Study of the Americas was ordered to stop studying Cuban issues. One of the academics suffered a fatal heart attack, blamed on the government pressures ...
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USA Today - Mon Feb 13, 10:42 am ET
A two-year attempt to set up ferry service between Florida and Cuba has run aground.
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NPR - Mon Feb 13, 4:54 pm ET
A Spanish company has begun drilling for oil in the Caribbean north of Cuba, just 80 miles from the Florida coast. Researchers and response crews in Florida are already making contingency plans for a possible spill.
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AFP Relax News via Yahoo! News - Fri Feb 10, 5:46 am ET
Cuba on Thursday opened its 21st annual international book fair, the high point of the communist nation's cultural calendar, with a new book by former president and revolutionary icon Fidel Castro.
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Boston Globe - Sun Feb 12, 11:00 am ET
Piece by piece, in backpacks and carry-on bags, American aid contractor Alan Gross made sure laptops, smartphones, hard drives and networking equipment were secreted into Cuba. The most sensitive item, according to official trip reports, was the last one: a specialized mobile phone chip that experts say is often used by the Pentagon and the CIA to make satellite signals ...
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The Petaluma Argus-Courier - Mon Feb 13, 6:04 am ET
Cuba has been on my bucket list for many years. I can't exactly tell you why but visiting a socialist country sparked my interest. When an opportunity to join a Historical Society tour from Bellport, New York presented itself, I jumped at the chance.
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seattlepi.com - Fri Feb 10, 5:52 am ET
Cuba embargo has its detractors, supporters Associated Press Copyright 2012 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 04:44 p.m., Tuesday, February 7, 2012 Washington's 50-year-old economic embargo of Cuba, which the island's leaders refer to as a "blockade," has its supporters and detractors. In addition to ...
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Korean Central News Agency - Fri Feb 10, 10:19 pm ET
Havana, February 9 (KCNA) -- Cuba on Tuesday rejected recent statements about the island expressed by the High Representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Catherine Ashton, which the foreign ministry described as misguided.