Prisoner releases under Ra&#250;l Castro raise hope for Cuba
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Leader Fidel Castro ceded power to his brother last year after undergoing emergency surgery.
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Cuba publishes an article signed by President Fidel Castro amid speculation among exiles about his health.
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SAN JUAN -- The US military has ordered three detainees at the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to be freed and 25 others to remain as secret hearings were held for the cases of more terror suspects.
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Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain called for the release of political prisoners in Cuba following Fidel Castro's resignation Tuesday.
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Cubans lined up Wednesday to buy newspapers featuring photographs of a stronger-looking Fidel Castro, with the communist government eager to show he is recovering after a half-year out of power even though a new collective leadership has taken firm control.
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Fidel Castro is stronger, obviously improving and increasingly getting back to work, Cuba's Foreign Minister said Monday.
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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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A rights group in Cuba says there are fewer political prisoners but widespread repression continues.
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HAVANA, Nov 30 (IPS) - The release of five dissidents over the past two  days  could pave the way for an eventual patching up of ties  between Cuba and the  European Union, say diplomats and  activists.
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One of four dissidents freed by Havana has spoken out about the deplorable conditions in Cuban prisons.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 18 -- Thirty-five Pakistani men released from U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay,  Cuba, returned home Saturday, a senior interior ministry official said.
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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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HAVANA -- Cuban authorities yesterday freed dissident writer Raul Rivero, the best known of 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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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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Israel started releasing more than 250 Palestinian prisoners Friday in an attempt to bolster moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in his power struggle with Hamas.
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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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Cuban authorities on Tuesday released RaÃºl Rivero, a dissident poet and journalist who spent 20 months and 6 days behind bars for conspiring with the US government to overthrow President Fidel Castro.