Top Official: U.S. Wants Cuba 'Liberation'
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President Bush will be committed during his second term to the "liberation of Cuba" by extending moral and political support to the Cuban people, a top State Department official said Friday.
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The State Department on Monday rejected an offer of talks with Raul Castro, Cuba's acting president, saying it saw no point in a dialogue with what it called the Caribbean island's "dictator-in-waiting."
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Fidel Castro is not terminally ill and would make a public appearance shortly, but is unlikely to return to governing Cuba on a day-to-day basis, Cuban government officials told a visiting delegation of members of the U.S. Congress.
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The United States held a direct   meeting in recent weeks with a key Islamist leader from Somalia   and demanded the handover of "terrorists" believed to be in   Mogadishu, a senior U.S. official said on Friday.
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Cuba responded Thursday to the U.S. diplomats's refusal to take down Christmas decorations by putting up a huge billboard in front of the U.S. Interest Section emblazoned with a swastika and showing photographs of Iraqi prisoners being abused by American soldiers.
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The top US official in Afghanistan called on the Taliban to give up their three-year insurgency, pledging Thursday that most who surrender will be left in peace
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U.S. intelligence reports now say the Cuban leader's condition appears terminal, government officials tell TIME
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Dozens of political prisoners in Cuba should be freed, former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar said Friday at an international conference examining ways to support resistance to Fidel Castro's regime.
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NEWPORT, R.I., June 28 -- President Bush on Thursday openly anticipated the death of ailing Cuban President Fidel Castro, picturing it as an opportunity to bring freedom to the Caribbean island after nearly half a century of iron-fisted rule by the fiery communist leader.
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Repression is increasing in Cuba under the control of Raul Castro, and the domination of the government by his brother, Fidel, is nearing an end, Bush administration officials said Tuesday.
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U.S. authorities presented independent Cuban activists and independent journalists with the State Department's annual human rights report Wednesday, saying the situation has not changed since Fidel Castro stepped aside seven months ago.
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The top U.S. official in Afghanistan called Thursday on the Taliban to give up their three-year insurgency against American forces, pledging "non-criminal" fighters will left in peace if they acknowledge the authority of President-elect Hamid Karzai.
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A Cuban militant accused of masterminding the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner wants a federal judge to let him out of jail while the U.S. government continues searching for a country where it can deport him.
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HAVANA - Cuba freed the most prominent and outspoken of its jailed dissidents, and newly released journalist-poet Raul Rivero urged dialogue over international pressure on President Fidel Castro&#39;s isolated regime.
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President Arroyo has ordered the Department of Foreign Affairs to âexert all measuresâ to win the freedom of a Filipino diplomat kidnapped in Afghanistan.
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Cuba is not ready for the throngs of American tourists who would be expected to visit the island if a U.S. ban is ever lifted, but it has the time to build new hotels, a senior Cuban official said on Wednesday.
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The Cuban government does not believe there will be changes in Washington&#39;s policy against the island country, regardless whoever wins the presidential election in the United States next week, local press said Saturday.