Developing nations summit gathers U.S. foes in Cuba
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Leaders of the Non-Aligned Movement of   116 developing nations will meet in Cuba this week for a summit   that will gather some of the United States' fiercest critics   just 90 miles offshore.
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Cuba's acting president, Raul Castro, departing from his brother's confrontational approach to their arch-enemy the United States, said this weekend he was open for talks with Washington.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez presided Friday at a regional petroleum summit in Cuba, pressing his efforts to counter U.S. influence in Latin America and the Caribbean by suggesting more of his neighbors could pay for cheap oil with goods or services in lieu of cash.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and two Latin American allies accused the United States on Tuesday of conspiring to undermine the region's leftist governments.
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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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The largest delegation from the U.S. Congress to visit Cuba since 1959 arrived in Havana on Friday seeking to open a dialogue with the communist government of acting President Raul Castro despite White House opposition to such contacts.
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Cuban President Fidel Castro on Sunday scoffed at Bush administration efforts to ease social problems in Latin America, boasting his poor country could run circles around the United States in health and education aid.
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Cuba will continue to build up its defenses against the United States and Cubans should be prepared to make more sacrifices to remain independent, Cuban leader Fidel Castro said in an editorial published on Monday.
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Xinhua world economic news summary at 0430 GMT, Feb. 7    HAVANA -- Integrating Latin America is the focus of debate on Tuesday amongst nearly 1,500 delegates from 43 nations attending an economic forum in Cuba's capital Havana.
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Latin American countries must work together to defeat drug trafficking and international terrorism as they have done in working to keep the peace in Haiti, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday.
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CIENFUEGOS, Cuba  - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez met on Friday with a dozen leaders of Caribbean and Central American nations he is supplying with cheap oil that has bolstered his regional influence.
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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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U.S. President George W. Bush will urge Cubans on Wednesday to "shape their destiny" by pushing for peaceful democratic change, in his latest effort to boost pressure on ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
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Fidel Castro wrote Tuesday that President Bush is threatening the world with nuclear war and famine  -  an attack on Washington a day before the White House was to announce new plans to draw Cuba away from communism
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Promoting prosperity topped the agenda at a gathering of U.S., Canadian and Mexican Cabinet leaders Friday, but immigration and the threat of terrorism also were key topics at the gathering.
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The US economic embargo of Cuba jumped to the top of the Castro governmentâs agenda on Thursday. For the 13th year in a row, the United Nations General Assembly approved a resolution condemning the US embargo.
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Cuba on Wednesday accused President Bush of threatening to take over the communist island by force in response to the U.S. leader's call for change in the country.