Cuba Expels Spanish, Dutch Legislators in EU Spat
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Cuba said on Saturday it barred entry to three European lawmakers on a trip to support dissidents, setting back Spain's campaign to mend frosty ties between the EU bloc and the communist-ruled island.
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A day after moving to nullify the Bush administration's new rules restricting family travel to Cuba, the House on Wednesday voted to remove barriers to agriculture sales and student exchanges in the island nation.
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HAVANA/PANAMA CITY  - Cuba cut diplomatic ties  with Panama on Thursday after its outgoing leader pardoned four  Cuban exiles who plotted to kill President Fidel Castro in  2000.
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HAVANA -- Cuban authorities yesterday freed dissident writer Raul Rivero, the best known of a dozen political prisoners released over the past few days in a move widely seen as intended to court favor with the European Union.
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Cuba said Monday it was resuming formal ties with all of Europe, ending a deep freeze in relations following a 2003 crackdown on dissidents and the firing-squad executions of three men who tried to hijack a ferry.
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MIAMI -- The Miami Herald's publisher resigned Tuesday, saying "ambiguously communicated" personnel policies resulted in the firings of three journalists at its Spanish-language paper who were paid to appear on U.S.-government broadcasts aimed at promoting democracy in Cuba.
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Cuba announced on Monday that it was  ending circulation of the U.S. dollar in its territory as of  Nov. 8 in response to tightened U.S. economic sanctions.
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Powerhouse Cuba has pulled out of the amateur World Boxing Championship in Chicago in October to avoid new defections by its boxers, the Cuban Boxing Federation said on Wednesday.
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Spain and Cuba said on Thursday they had  held talks on human rights, an issue that led to a diplomatic  freeze with the European Union, but did not say whether they  discussed 59 dissidents held in prison in Cuba.
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Cuba's foreign minister launched a blistering attack on President Bush at a U.N. General Assembly meeting Wednesday, a day after the U.S. leader spoke of a Cuba no longer ruled by Fidel Castro.
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The European Union suspended diplomatic sanctions against Cuba, easing a standoff triggered by a clampdown on dissidents by Havana in 2003 -- but it vowed to maintain pressure on Fidel Castro.
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MADRID : A political row erupted after Spain and the Netherlands vehemently protested Cuba&#39;s refusal to grant entry to three parliamentary deputies who had arrived in Havana to meet Cuban dissidents.
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An Algerian Islamic radical has been expelled from the Netherlands to Spain as he was believed to be a threat to public safety, say Dutch officials.
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The European Union held informal  exploratory talks with Cuba on Monday on resuming closer ties  after years of tension over human rights issues, an EU diplomat  said.
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Cuba ended a diplomatic deadlock with  eight European Union nations on Monday in response to proposals  by EU officials to stop inviting dissidents to National Day  receptions in Havana.
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Russia said on Friday it was expelling a Latvian diplomat after the Baltic state expelled one of Moscow's diplomats in a row over an apparent spying case.
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Cuba on Monday blasted a new move by a U.S.-funded TV Marti to provide its anti-Fidel Castro programming to Spanish-language stations in Miami that are picked up by popular illegal satellite dishes on the island.