Panama&#39;s president-elect rejects pardon to four Cuban exiles
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Panama&#39;s President-elect Martin Torrijos on Friday condemned the pardon granted by outgoing Panamanian president to four anti-Castro Cuba-Americans and vowed to take measures to resume diplomatic ties with Cuba.
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Venezuela&#39;s ambassador to Panama, Flavio Granados, said late on Friday his country had asked him to leave Panama after statements made by its leader in the midst of a diplomatic scandal involving Cuba.
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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.
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Bush administration officials denied any role yesterday in the politically fortuitous pardon of four Cuban exiles by the outgoing Panamanian government.
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A group of Cubans say they defected from medical and social cooperation programs in Venezuela by crossing the border to Colombia but are trapped in Bogota after the U.S. government refused them visas.
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Cuba&#39;s communist government rejected  calls from the European Union for negotiations to improve  relations on Friday and said talks can only happen when the EU  scraps sanctions imposed on the island in 2003.
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Panama's ex-leader Manuel Noriega cannot be extradited to France until his US appeals are exhausted, a judge rules.
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Venezuela withdraws its ambassador from Panama, in an on-going row about a pardon for four Cuban exiles.
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The State Department on Monday rejected an offer of talks with Raul Castro, Cuba's acting president, saying it saw no point in a dialogue with what it called the Caribbean island's "dictator-in-waiting."
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The Cuban government does not believe there will be changes in Washington&#39;s policy against the island country, regardless whoever wins the presidential election in the United States next week, local press said Saturday.
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Cuba on Monday rejected Washington's offer of &#36;50,000 in post-Hurricane Charley aid, calling the gesture hypocritical and the amount humiliating.
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President George W. Bush refused to rule out a pardon for former White House aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby on Tuesday, a day after sparing him from prison in a case that helped seal Bush's Iraq legacy and gave ammunition to Democrats.
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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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President Bush today refused to rule out a pardon for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, one day after he spared the former White House aide prison time by commuting the 30-month sentence imposed after Libby's perjury conviction in the CIA leak case.
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The ailing Cuban president said Tuesday that he will not return to lead the country, retiring as head of state 49 years after he seized power in an armed revolution.
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Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe&#39;s president, has rejected a request from Equatorial Guinea for the extradition of 70 alleged mercenaries accused of plotting a coup in the west African country.
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Panama's outgoing president on  Thursday pardoned four Cuban exiles jailed for plotting to kill  Cuban President Fidel Castro in 2000 and three or them flew  straight to Miami, a haven of anti-Castro groups.