Poverty, Mideast top the agenda in Cuba
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Poverty, health care and the Middle East top the agenda for a weeklong summit of the Nonaligned Movement that began Monday and will culminate with the meeting of 50 heads of state, including anti-American leaders from Iran and Venezuela.
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Cuba's Communist government joined the debate surrounding Michael Moore's new documentary "SiCKO" on Friday, saying the film will allow the world to get a glimpse of the humaneness of its health system.
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Cuba's tourism minister said on Sunday  that 2 million people visited the Caribbean island so far this  year, achieving a long sought after goal despite U.S. efforts  to undermine the country's main foreign exchange earner.
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Gaza's children used to light colorful lanterns to mark Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting. But this year, many parents can't afford those small $1 toys as the coastal strip sinks deeper into poverty amid an aid cutoff to punish the Hamas-led government.
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Three of every four Palestinians live in poverty and their economy still depends on donors, despite 4.5 percent economic growth last year, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
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African leaders are to gather in Algiers to review the progress of the New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD), a wide-ranging strategy for ensuring good governance and building the economies of the world's poorest continent.
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"But it is positive that we are talking about it. Surely, when we talk our positions will become more understandable."  Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Cuba was on the verge of a 'major transition,' and chided Spain on Friday for doing business with Fidel Castro while not working more to support dissidents in the communist island nation.Rice's one-day visit here was meant to smooth over a three-year downturn in relations between Washington and the government Madrid, but the disagreement over Cuba has threatened to wash away any growing good will. At issue is Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos's decision to snub Cuban dissidents on a visit to Havana in April. Read more
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Cuba has erected several huge billboards near the US mission with pictures of abused Iraqi prisoners and American soldiers pointing a rifle at children.
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MATANZAS, Cuba -- The photo on the living room wall shows a smiling young man on a palm-fringed balcony near his new home in Miami, just 90 miles from here. His aging parents and grandmother fear they may not live to see him again -- and they blame President Bush.
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U.S. authorities presented independent Cuban activists and independent journalists with the State Department's annual human rights report Wednesday, saying the situation has not changed since Fidel Castro stepped aside seven months ago.
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Surveys released this week show that nearly 50 percent of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip face dire poverty, while an increasing number of Israelis have also slipped below the poverty line.
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CARACAS, Venezuela, Sept. 24 -- President Hugo Chavez on Friday proposed joining forces with communist Cuba to bring free health and education programs to poor Caribbean nations ravaged by recent hurricanes and tropical storms.
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With US, Israel, and the Palestinians all navigating transitions, outlook improves for solving one of world&#39;s toughest problems.
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President Bush plans to outline new steps today aimed at pressuring Cuba's government to move to democracy and ease political repression, including offering new scholarships and computer access for the country's youth and the creation of a new international fund to finance Cuban reconstruction un...
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LA PAZ, Bolivia &#151; President Evo Morales has caught the world's attention waving a coca leaf at the U.N. and rushing to Fidel Castro's sickbed. But the government's tougher tasks fall to his vice president; a gray-haired academic whose Marxist views have changed little since his guerrilla days.
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Repression is increasing in Cuba under the control of Raul Castro, and the domination of the government by his brother, Fidel, is nearing an end, Bush administration officials said Tuesday.
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Cuba put up several huge billboards near  the U.S. mission on Friday with pictures of abused Iraqi  prisoners and American soldiers pointing a rifle at children,  in response to a U.S. Christmas display in support of  imprisoned Cuban dissident.