U.N. votes against U.S. embargo on Cuba for 16th year
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The U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to urge the United States to lift its four-decade old embargo against Cuba in a resolution adopted for the 16th consecutive year.
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The United Nations General  Assembly passed a $4.17 billion budget for 2008-09 with the  United States casting the only vote against because of  provisions for a conference it sees as anti-Israeli.
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U.S. President George W. Bush ruled out any easing of the decades-old U.S. trade embargo on Cuba but proposed loosening some restrictions on contacts with the communist-ruled island, if more freedoms were allowed.
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The U.N. Security Council voted  on Monday to extend the mandate of a peacekeeping force in  Ivory Coast until January to help create peaceful conditions  for elections that have been repeatedly delayed.
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LUXEMBOURG - The European Union on Monday ended 12 years of sanctions against Libya and eased an arms embargo to reward the North African country for giving up plans to develop weapons of mass destruction.    The decision by the EU foreign ministers brought the 25-nation bloc in line with a U.N...
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For the 13th straight year, the U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly urged the United States to end its more than four decade trade embargo against Cuba, rejecting Washington's argument that Fidel Castro is "a tyrant" who denies basic human rights to Cubans.
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The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to approve an appeal procedure for people and groups subject to sanctions because of suspected ties to al Qaeda and Afghanistan's former Taliban rulers.
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Cuba ended a diplomatic deadlock with  eight European Union nations on Monday in response to proposals  by EU officials to stop inviting dissidents to National Day  receptions in Havana.
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The U.N. Security Council voted on Friday to keep its peacekeeping mission in Congo at its current size through mid-February but opened the door to possible cutbacks after that.
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Thousand of people wave Cuban flags during a rally to draw attention to the upcoming UN vote to condemn the four-decade embargo against Cuba in Havana on Saturday Oct. 23, 2004.
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Several UN Security Council members objected on Thursday to a US draft resolution that threatens oil sanctions against Sudan but they supported a large
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It will take weeks before the U.N. Security Council is ready to vote on a new round of sanctions against Iran proposed last week by six world powers, council diplomats said on Monday.
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- The UN Security Council has voted to impose an immediate arms embargo on the Ivory Coast. The 15-member council also vowed to punish key government and rebel leaders with additional
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UNITED NATIONS - A U.N. Security Council vote on whether to threaten sanctions against Sudan hinged on China and other opponents who fear that the specter of punishment could ruin efforts to end a crisis that has killed more than 50,000 and spawned 1.2 million refugees...
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The 40-year-old sanctions imposed by the US against Cuba is illegal and inhuman, China&#39;s deputy representative to the UN Zhang Yishan told the UN General Assembly on Thursday.
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A day after moving to nullify the Bush administration's new rules restricting family travel to Cuba, the House on Wednesday voted to remove barriers to agriculture sales and student exchanges in the island nation.
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The UN Security Council agreed to a vote on Monday on a resolution imposing an immediate arms embargo on Ivory Coast after government bombings shattered a cease-fire and killed nine French peacekeepers.