Cuba Restores Contacts with European Embassies
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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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Havana ends its "cocktail wars" with the EU, resuming ties with the union and four member states still out in the cold.
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Cuba released three imprisoned dissidents on health grounds on Monday in what opposition activists called a bid to end a diplomatic standoff with the European Union.
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Morocco has decided to send its ambassador to Spain back to Madrid after a diplomatic rift over two Spanish enclaves on its Mediterranean coast, the foreign ministry said Monday.
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Cuban authorities on Tuesday freed dissident writer Raul Rivero, the latest of half 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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Havana ends its "cocktail wars" with Brussels, resuming ties with the EU and four of its member states.
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European Union foreign ministers agreed Monday to restore normal diplomatic relations with the Cuban government while pledging to increase contacts with critics of President Fidel Castro.
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Fidel Castro is recovering from his illness and "could return to work soon," Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque said Thursday.
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The European Union is considering a shift in policy toward Cuba that would get it back on speaking terms with President Fidel Castro's government, diplomats said.
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Cuba'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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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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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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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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Letter from San Sebastian: Talks between the Spanish government and a feared terror group are finally providing reason for optimism
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Cuba announced that it is renewing ties with the European Union as well as all EU countries that have embassies on the island.
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In a bid to thaw icy relations with Europe after last year's crackdown on dissent, Cuban authorities released well-known writer Raul Rivero and four other dissidents as the EU reviews diplomatic sanctions against the island nation.
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Panama's president on Thursday pardoned four Cuban emigres accused of trying to assassinate Cuban President Fidel Castro despite Havana's threat to cut diplomatic ties over such a move.