Cuba resumes diplomatic contacts with eight EU countries
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The Cuban government announced it was renewing diplomatic contacts with eight European Union countries that have stopped inviting dissidents to official embassy functions.
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President Felipe Calderon's administration has held discussions with Cuba on improving relations after a series of diplomatic spats in recent years, Mexico's foreign secretary said.
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The largest delegation from the U.S. Congress to visit Cuba since 1959 arrived in Havana on Friday seeking to open a dialogue with the communist government of acting President Raul Castro despite White House opposition to such contacts.
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Havana ends its "cocktail wars" with the EU, resuming ties with the union and four member states still out in the cold.
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The European Union will resume talks with Serbia on closer ties next week after Belgrade boosted cooperation with the U.N. war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the EU's executive said on Thursday.
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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 Cuban government freed another jailed opponent yesterday, the sixth dissident released this week in a move widely seen as an attempt to repair relations with the European Union.
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Ailing Cuban President Fidel Castro has spoken by telephone to a meeting of Cuban officials, the ruling Communist Party newspaper Granma said on Saturday in the first official word on the 80-year-old leader in 11 days.
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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 European Union will resume talks  with Serbia on closer ties next week after Belgrade boosted  cooperation with the U.N. war crimes tribunal for the former  Yugoslavia, the EU&#39;s executive said on Thursday.
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The EU holds a first conference for 16 southern and eastern countries - members of its Neighbourhood Policy.
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BRUSSELS  - The EU hailed a &quot;new chapter&quot; in ties with Iran and confirmed plans to resume trade talks rapidly, after a UN-brokered deal under which Tehran pledged to freeze uranium enrichment activities.
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The European Union suspended diplomatic sanctions against Cuba, easing a standoff triggered by a clampdown on dissidents by Havana in 2003 -- but it vowed to maintain pressure on Fidel Castro.
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Nato has held unprecedented ministerial talks with Israel and six Arab nations aiming to strengthen ties with friends on the allianceâs volatile southern and south-eastern flanks.
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The EU is resuming trade talks with Iran, 18 months after they were halted over Tehran's nuclear programme.
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Spain said Thursday it held "frank and cordial" discussions about human rights, the death penalty and treatment of prisoners in Cuba, despite U.S. complaints it has been too friendly with the communist island.
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EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said Tuesday Iran&#39;s pledge to freeze uranium enrichment activities can open a &quot;new chapter&quot; in bilateral ties, confirming that the EU will resume trade talks with Tehran.