Cubans land during US coast drill
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Cuban migrants sneak ashore in Florida during a training exercise designed to deal with a possible mass exodus from Cuba.
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Cubans awoke to air raid sirens Sunday and practiced shooting, putting on gas masks and doing duck-and-cover drills as the communist nation wrapped up a week of defense exercises to prepare for any possible attack by the United States.
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Cubans saw one of their greatest  baseball players, Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez, on television  on Saturday night for the first time since he defected to the  United States a decade ago.
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Seattle Mariners shortstop Yuniesky Betancourt and the family of Chicago White Sox pitcher Jose Contreras were among the Cubans allegedly smuggled into the United States by an agent and others accused of immigration violations, federal prosecutors say.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Spain for what is meant to be a fence-mending trip on Friday but her first words were of reproach for its policy of engaging Cuba.
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George Town, Cayman Islands - People stood on rooftops of flooded homes on Monday in the Cayman Islands, pummelled by Hurricane Ivan before the massive storm strengthened to an extremely dangerous Category 5 storm and headed for Cuba.
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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 their opening game at the FIBA Americas tournament yesterday.
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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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Hurricane Ivan whipped western Cuba with 160 mph winds, ripping the roofs of tobacco barns and houses and drenching fields before moving into the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday, threatening offshore oil rigs and setting off an exodus along the U.S. coast.
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PINAR DEL RIO, Cuba  - Powerful Hurricane Ivan  churned into the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday on a track for the  U.S. coast after ripping off roofs and downing trees and power  lines as it grazed western Cuba.
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Cuba accused the United States on Tuesday of issuing too few visas for Cuban emigres, saying the delay was part of Washington's efforts to overthrow the Cuban government.
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A group of Cuban refugees was released Saturday, a day after landing, some for the second time in a year, at a derelict bridge in the Florida Keys that authorities initially said wasn't U.S. soil.
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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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A Russian dive that was the basis of a claim to nearly half the Arctic seabed had American origins.
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Spanish firefighters help put a U.S. servicemember dressed in a space suit onto the ground during a space shuttle emergency drill on Friday at Moron Air Base, Spain.
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PINAR DEL RIO, Cuba - Hurricane Ivan whipped western Cuba with 257-kilometre-an-hour winds, ripping the roofs of tobacco barns and houses and drenching fields before moving into the Gulf of Mexico today, threatening offshore oil rigs and setting off an
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MIAMI : Hurricane Ivan barreled into the Gulf of Mexico toward the US coast after slamming western Cuba on a devastating rampage that killed more than 70 people across the Caribbean.