US Must Give Free Speech to Cuba, Iran Writers-OSCE
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The United States government should lift its ban on publishing literature from countries like Cuba, Iran and Sudan without special permission, Europe's biggest rights watchdog said on Thursday.
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Description: The Cuban government has demanded the US Interests Section in Havana take down its Christmas decorations. Among the trimmings is a sign that reads 75, symbolizing 75 dissident writers and journalists put in jail over the last year.
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The US expresses grave concern over what it calls the worsening human rights situation in Iran.
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The United States reserves the right to take diplomatic action if Iran fails to honor a United Nations call for it to cease all uranium enrichment activities, US Under Secretary of State John Bolton told AFP Saturday.
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The US and Cuba have launched into another bitter war of words following Cuba&#39;s decision to ban transactions in dollars on the island.
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The head of the Organization of American States said Monday he is open to a dialogue with Cuba, which was expelled from the body more than 40 years ago.
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Cuba was right to reject calls from the  European Union for negotiations to improve relations until the  EU scraps sanctions against the island, Cuban leader Fidel  Castro said in an editorial published on Thursday.
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Americaâs freedom of speech is under attack. Mickey Mouse and Private Ryan had better watch out, says Ros Davidson in Los Angeles.
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The State Department accused Iran on Friday of detaining at least four student activists and called for their release.
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BRUSSELS, Feb 1 (IPS) - The European Union's decision to restore  diplomatic ties with Cuba Monday has angered human rights and  press groups.
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Iran, Venezuela and other states opposed   to U.S. policy sought to forge a common front on Friday at a   Non-Aligned summit that Cuban leader Fidel Castro was too ill   to chair.
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The United States and Europe urged Iran on Thursday to lift the veil of secrecy surrounding its nuclear activities and freeze uranium enrichment, with Washington warning that continued defiance could result in tough measures by the U.N. Security Council.
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The United States is violating international law by holding prisoners in its war on terror incommunicado and in secret hiding places, Human Rights Watch said in a report to be published on Tuesday calling for an end to such practices.
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Cuba is not ready for the throngs of American tourists who would be expected to visit the island if a U.S. ban is ever lifted, but it has the time to build new hotels, a senior Cuban official said on Wednesday.
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Spain and the United States will work more closely together to encourage democracy in Cuba, despite conflicting approaches to the communist state, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday.
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HAVANA, Cuba -- The spat between US diplomats and the Cuban government escalated Friday when billboards showing a swastika and photographs of Iraqi prisoners being abused by American soldiers were put up on a main highway facing the US mission&#39;s offices.
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WASHINGTON, 29  - The United States refused to offer any praise to Cuba for releasing three jailed dissidents who had been imprisoned for more than a year, maintaining they should never have been arrested in the first place.