Varela leads Cuba gold rush
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Yan Varela wins the light flyweight division as Cuba get ready for a day of boxing glory.
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An oil deposit with an estimated  100-million-barrel reserve has been discovered off Cuba's coast  by Canadian companies Sherritt International Corp. S.TO and  Pebercan Inc. PBC.TO, President Fidel Castro said.
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Reynier Alcantara scored in the 78th minute &#151; his second goal in as many games &#151; and Cuba survived a late penalty attempt for a 2-2 draw with Panama on Sunday, keeping alive its hopes of advancing at the CONCACAF Gold Cup.
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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva offered Cuba millions of dollars in credit on Tuesday and committed Brazil to help the communist-run country explore for oil in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Ivan Dominguez of Cuba fought off cramps and a hill on the final stretch to break out of a tight group of riders to win the first stage of the inaugural Tour of Missouri on Tuesday.
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Flint middleweight Andre Dirrell dashed Cubaâs dreams of another boxing gold rush and moved into the Olympic medal round himself Wednesday.
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SAN JUAN Y MARTINEZ, Cuba -- Continuing its deadly rampage through the Caribbean, Hurricane Ivan swept across the famed tobacco-growing region of southwestern Cuba yesterday, packing 160-mile-per-hour winds and gigantic waves and churning a path toward the Gulf of Mexico.
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China has agreed to invest 500 million US dollars in the Cubaâs nickel industry, a huge boost for the islandâs economy. The announcement was one of sixteen trade, cooperation and investment agreements
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Brendan Kingman's sixth-inning RBI single sent Australia to a stunning 1-0 victory yesterday over Japan, putting the Aussies in today's gold medal game against Cuba.
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ATHENS China overcame a case of midmatch nerves to shatter Cuba&#39;s dream of four Olympic women&#39;s volleyball golds in a row by beating the Caribbean nation in five grueling sets.
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CASILDA, Cuba -- Tiny flames jump and sputter in the night here, suspended above the roadbed as if held by an invisible wand.
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Candace Parker scored 21 points and Katie Smith added two late 3-pointers to help the United States hold off Cuba, 85-79, in its opening game at the FIBA Americas tournament in Valdivia, Chile. With the score tied at 71-71 midway through the fourth quarter, Smith hit consecutive 3-pointers. After finishing third at the world championships, the United States was forced to play in the FIBA Americas tournament. Only the tournament winner earns an automatic bid to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
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Two years ago in December, fewer than 30 U.S. business representatives came to Havana to sign agreements with Cuban officials to export food to the Caribbean island. This week, Cuba expects more than 340 people &#151; primarily producers of American farm goods &#151; to attend the latest round of talks, in which communist officials hope to sign deals worth about &#36;100 million.
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Cuba has the potential to make 3.2 billion gallons of ethanol a year, a figure that would make it the world's third-biggest producer. Reaching that target would require a massive infusion of foreign capital, but with Cuba quietly modernizing its ethanol infrastructure, is the country preparing to jump into the ethanol game?
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Hundreds of flag-waving people rallied in Cuba's capital on Tuesday to publicly declare their support for ailing leader Fidel Castro, as assurances he was recovering began to ease Cubans' worries about their long-ruling leader.
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Communist Cuba said "adios" to the Yankee dollar that shored up its struggling economy for a decade, launching a two-week process Tuesday to eliminate the U.S. currency from circulation in its stores and businesses in response to stepped-up American sanctions.
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Gold surged to a historic high above $910 an ounce on Monday as investors rushed to buy the metal on further weakness in the dollar and expectations of a sharp cut in U.S. interest rates.