Summary: Cuba frees three dissidents
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THE FREED: Cuba unexpectedly releases for health reasons three political dissidents: economics writer Oscar Espinosa Chepe, who has a liver ailment, Marcelo Lopez, who has a neurological
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Three British residents held at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp for suspected terrorists have been freed and are due to return to Britain on Wednesday after more than four years in captivity.
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Three international workers held hostage in Afghanistan&#39;s capital, Kabul, for almost a month were freed today, the United Nations said.
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Three British residents held for more  than four years at the U.S. prison camp for suspected  terrorists in Guantanamo Bay have been freed and are due to  arrive back in Britain later on Wednesday, police said.
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At least three of the original 75 dissidents arrested in a broad crackdown last year were released for health reasons Monday, according to friends, relatives and local rights activists. The surprise move raised hopes for additional releases in the coming days.
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Cuba severs ties with Panama after it pardons four Cuban exiles accused of plotting to kill Fidel Castro.
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Four British men who spent up to three years in U.S. custody at Guantanamo Bay and then held by British police for a day were released Wednesday night without charge.
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Three British residents held for more than four years at the U.S. prison camp for suspected terrorists in Guantanamo Bay have been freed and are due to arrive back in Britain later on Wednesday, police said.
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Cuba releases a journalist jailed in last year's dissident crackdown, the sixth prisoner to be freed this week.
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Cuban security police detained seven dissidents who went to the Justice Ministry on Thursday to demand better conditions for Cuba's political prisoners.
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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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Three foreign U.N. workers held hostage  in Afghanistan were freed unharmed on Tuesday, almost four  weeks after their abduction at gunpoint on a Kabul street  raised fears of a wave of Iraq-style kidnappings.
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Three foreign U.N. workers held hostage  in Afghanistan were freed Tuesday, almost four weeks after they  were abducted at gunpoint on the streets of the capital Kabul,  government officials said.
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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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Cuba will free seven of 59 dissidents  imprisoned since 2003, a move that opponents of ailing Cuban  leader Fidel Castro said reflects a "climate of change" under  his brother's rule.
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HAVANA - Cuba freed the most prominent and outspoken of its jailed dissidents, and newly released journalist-poet Raul Rivero urged dialogue over international pressure on President Fidel Castro&#39;s isolated regime.
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Three foreign U.N. workers held in Afghanistan since Oct. 28 were freed on Tuesday, government officials said.