Cuba responds to US Xmas lights
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Cuba puts up photos of abused Iraqi prisoners in front of the US mission in a row over a US Christmas display.
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Cubans hit hard by hurricane Charley will receive &#36;50,000 in U.S. assistance, the State Department said Friday.
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Description: The Cuban government has demanded the US Interests Section in Havana take down its Christmas decorations. Among the trimmings is a sign that reads 75, symbolizing 75 dissident writers and journalists put in jail over the last year.
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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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HAVANA - Cuba is moving to end circulation of the widely-used US dollar, a response to tighter American sanctions on the communist island.
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Dominican New Yorkers had a message yesterday for the newly elected president of their homeland: Let there be light.
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"But it is positive that we are talking about it. Surely, when we talk our positions will become more understandable."  Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Cuba was on the verge of a 'major transition,' and chided Spain on Friday for doing business with Fidel Castro while not working more to support dissidents in the communist island nation.Rice's one-day visit here was meant to smooth over a three-year downturn in relations between Washington and the government Madrid, but the disagreement over Cuba has threatened to wash away any growing good will. At issue is Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos's decision to snub Cuban dissidents on a visit to Havana in April. Read more
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Communist Cuba's military is rolling out its olive green Soviet-era hardware this weekend, summoning 300,000 troops and citizen soldiers for a show of strength in times made uncertain by Fidel Castro's illness.
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HAVANA  - Cuba mounted pictures of US soldiers torturing Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison onto billboards outside the US mission in Havana in retaliation for US Christmas illuminations highlighting Cuban dissidents.
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Convalescing Cuban leader Fidel Castro on Monday sent a New Year's message telling Cubans to celebrate the anniversary of his 1959 revolution nearly 17 months after illness forced him to hand power to his brother.
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On the surface, life in Cuba remains utterly normal a month after Fidel Castro ceded power for the first time in 47 years. But behind the scenes, an emerging collective leadership is increasing the possibilities for change on the communist-ruled island, and bringing a fresh look at U.S. policies aimed at undermining the Cuban system.
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One of the fiercest Hurricanes ever has passed the western edge of Cuba on its way towards the United States. Hurricane Ivan and its 260 kilometre an hour winds toppled power lines, uprooted trees and caused extensive flooding across Cuba.
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HAVANA -- Cuba has retaliated for the US Christmas display in Havana that supports Cuban dissidents. Cuba put up a billboard Friday with photographs of American soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners and a huge swastika.
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Three New York rescue workers injured in  the September 11 attacks got the best treatment Cuba can offer  in Michael Moore&#39;s film critique of U.S. health care, the Cuban  doctors who attended them said this week.
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Cuba's communist state is rising from  the ashes of its post-Soviet economic crash with greater  control over its economy and help from China and Venezuela,  President Fidel Castro said on Saturday.
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While the Washington debate on US Cuba policy remains stuck on the issue of trade sanctions, the world has not stood still. At a recent meeting sponsored by the Czech government in Prague, a
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Cuba announces a ban on commercial transactions in dollars in response to tighter US sanctions.