Advocates of lifting Cuba sanctions see slim odds
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Even the staunchest congressional supporters of lifting U.S. sanctions against Cuba are not optimistic any changes will occur while policy toward Havana is tied up in U.S. electoral politics.
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The U.S. and its closest Western allies may soon call a vote on U.N. Security Council sanctions against Iran, even at the risk that Russia and China may abstain or veto the measures, officials said Sunday.
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Officials from the EU's 25 member states are considering a Spanish proposal to lift sanctions on Cuba.
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The rulings, the latest legal setbacks for the governmentâs effort to bring war crimes charges against detainees, could stall the militaryâs prosecutions at GuantÃ¡namo Bay.
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Leftist intellectuals and human rights activists from around the world pleaded with the United States on Monday not to interfere with Cuba while Fidel Castro recovers from intestinal surgery, and Cuba's parliament speaker warned the U.S. would face dire consequences if it did.
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Visiting U.S. lawmakers were told by Cuban officials that the ailing Fidel Castro is not terminally ill and will return to public life, but some of the legislators said they saw in the assurances of Castro's health a growing political vacuum on the Communist island.
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The Bush administration is preparing to help reunite some Cuban families with relatives already in the United States as part of a limited easing of immigration rules following Fidel Castro's handoff of power.
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HAVANA - Fidel Castro may have recently stopped circulation of US dollars in Cuba, but that isn&#39;t stopping a multi-million dollar agricultural deal between the two countries.
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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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In popular culture, GuantÃ¡namo Bay, Cuba, has become shorthand for hopeless imprisonment and isolation.
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MATANZAS, Cuba -- The photo on the living room wall shows a smiling young man on a palm-fringed balcony near his new home in Miami, just 90 miles from here. His aging parents and grandmother fear they may not live to see him again -- and they blame President Bush.
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A transfer of power in Cuba to acting President Raul Castro could pave the way for a debate on its return to the Organization of American States, the head of the hemispheric forum said on Monday.
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Amid debate over trade sanctions, a little-known exception allows farm exports, like apples and milk.
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It wasn't the Bay of Pigs invasion or the U.S. embargo against Cuba that turned Fidel Castro against the United States. He was in the anti-American camp long beforehand.
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Cuba was right to reject calls from the  European Union for negotiations to improve relations until the  EU scraps sanctions against the island, Cuban leader Fidel  Castro said in an editorial published on Thursday.
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If Fidel Castro is larger than life, his brother seems almost smaller than it.
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A deal with Islamist rebels is the latest in a foreign policy pendulum that swings between aggression and optimism.