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Cuban court: Gov't must decide on furlough for Alan Gross Havana (EFE).- A decision on whether to allow jailed U.S. contractor Alan Gross to visit his terminally ill mother rests with the Cuban government, Continue reading
MIAMI(CBS4) – Miami Police investigating Tuesday’s Little Havana shooting are asking for the public’s help finding 22-year-old Isabel Greenberg, who is wanted for questioning in ... Continue reading
A South African man who became the star witness at the trial of a notorious Russian arms dealer has been sentenced to five years in prison. Andrew Smulian had pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy charges Continue reading
A fire has been reported on a nuclear-powered submarine at a Maine shipyard. Fire crews are responding to the blaze on the USS Miami SSN 755 at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, located on an island in the Continue reading
The report appeared on the same day that members of the UN Committee Against Torture in Geneva demanded the Cuban government provide information about the recent deaths of several political prisoners and the repression of dissident groups.read more Continue reading
Havana: Venue of 10th Iberian-American Meeting on Gender and Communication HAVANA, Cuba, May 22 (acn) The 10th Iberian-American Meeting on Gender and Communication will open its doors on ... Continue reading
HAVANA, Cuba, May 21 (acn) The advances of the campesino and agro ecological movements in Cuba in the last five years will be exhibited in Havana on Monday during day one of the 9th International ... Continue reading
Hatred is a feeling that has united us to fight for true freedom in Cuba. It is very difficult to erase from memory the suffering of harassment and repudiation. Hate also joined us to the struggle with the bearded ones, those leaders of great intelligence, Camilo, Fidel, Raul etc., used it as a stimulus to [...] Continue reading
The Catholic magazine says there’s a campaign to get rid of Cuban Cardinal Jaime Ortega because he’s too close to Cuban leader Raúl Castro. Continue reading
CARACAS â?? President Hugo Chavez made his first public appearance since returning to Venezuela 11 days ago after completing what is supposed to be his final round of anti-cancer radiation treatment in Continue reading
San Francisco, USA, May 23 (Prensa Latina) U.S. and Cuban scholars of Latin American Studies Association (LASA) criticized the refusal of visas to a dozen Cuban colleagues to participate from this ... Continue reading
Brasilia, May 23 (Prensa Latina) Famous Brazilian poet Thiago de Mello wished happy 80th birthday to Mirta Rodrguez, the mother of Antonio Guerrero, one of the anti-terrorist Cuban fighters unfairly ... Continue reading
Cuba-Rushford's Devinne Arnold races the final stretch of the 100-meter dash during Tuesday's Allegany County championship meet in Cuba. Arnold finished first in 12.8 seconds to tie a meet ... Continue reading
Cuba's first daughter is touring through San Francisco, winning a warm welcome from gay rights advocates but infuriating Cuban-American activists who fled her family's regime. The visit by ... Continue reading
AFP - "7 Days in Havana", a snapshot of the iconic Cuban capital brought to the big screen in seven chapters by seven top international film-makers, held its world premiere Wednesday in Cannes. Oscar-winning Continue reading
What? It seems backwards? No, no it can’t be: what seems backwards is what I heard a representative of the Municipality say after asking at the primary school for explanations of this event. Walking to school, a still-upset grandmother told me that the whole wall and the fence around the school had fallen in during [...] Continue reading
] Havana, May 23, 2012 (EFE via COMTEX) -- A decision on whether to allow jailed U.S. contractor Alan Gross to visit his terminally ill mother rests with the Cuban government, the Communist-ruled island's Continue reading
The Lucia Iñiguez Landin clinic hospital in the northeastern Cuban province of Holguin keeps calling science attention when successfully performing the fourth hematopoietic stem cell transplant, for Continue reading
The Cuban penitentiary system develops programs of basic and professional formation, access to culture and sports practice paving the way to the prisonersâ?? social reintegration. According to official Continue reading
Havana, May 23 (Prensa Latina) Cuban Vice President Esteban Lazo was received in Maputo by Mozambican Prime Minister Aires Bonifacio Ali, during the second stop of a tour of Africa to strengthen ... Continue reading
Geneva, May 23 (Prensa Latina) Ecuador''s Vice President Lenin Moreno condemned in this city the genocide blockade imposed by the United States on Cuba for over 50 years. Moreno, who leads ... Continue reading
Havana, May 23 (Prensa Latina) Freestyle wrestler Abraham Conyedo, runner-up champion of the first Youth Olympic Games, currently led the return of Cuba to Pan American Junior Championships. ... Continue reading
Top row (left to right) Benjamin Dodd, Jeffrey Nelson, Danilo Jose, Bottom row (left to right) Lucky Osazuwa, Samuel Hunter, Scott Adams, Ricco Atkinson A motley gang of villains who staged break-ins Continue reading
Fidel Castro (R) and his brother Raul Castro, are pictured in Havana in a February 23, 1977 photo. Raul Castro's daughter Mariela Castro is in the United States to lead a panel on sexual ... Continue reading
A valuable piece of real estate has come up for grabs in central Wellington, but potential buyers are being warned that it does come with special requirements.The old Deka building on Cuba Street, which Continue reading
The Director of the Cuban National Center for Sex Education (CENESEX) Mariela Castro(R), daughter of President Raul Castro, gives a speech during a forum against homophobia on May 16, 2012 in ... Continue reading
Yaremis Flores Last Saturday, May 5, in the nighttime hours, at least three cows were taken from a farm belonging to Commander Guillermo Garcia Frias, located southeast of the capital. At dawn the next day, three patrol cars and two Forensic Medicine vehicles were observed. The non-commissioned officer Alexander Borrero, one of those charged with [...] Continue reading
3 de mayo de 2012, 11:16 Havana, May 23 (Prensa Latina) Havana Biennial resembles an infinitive ark, without limits that contain it, with space for many different records of art, from conceptual to ... Continue reading
SAN FRANCISCO, May 23 (UPI) -- Castro is in the United States to lead a panel on sexual diversity at the Latin American Congress in San Francisco Thursday. She also is scheduled to talk at the San Francisco Continue reading
6:26pm BST * Service exports drive 11 percent increase in earnings * Tourism and sugar production up significantly By Mark Frank Havana, May 23 (Reuters) - Cuban exports were up 11 percent during the Continue reading
Castro's daughter scorned by lawmakers, praised by gay rights groups gay marriage and speaks often about transgender issues such as sex reassignment surgery. While homosexuality is not illegal in most Continue reading
Caracas, May 23 (EFE).- President Hugo Chavez made his first public appearance since returning to Venezuela 11 days ago after completing what is supposed to be his final round of anti-cancer radiation Continue reading
A bidding war is expected for what is described as the biggest and possibly most valuable development site in the heart of Wellington. Continue reading