UN Condemns US Cuba Embargo
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The US economic embargo of Cuba jumped to the top of the Castro governmentâs agenda on Thursday. For the 13th year in a row, the United Nations General Assembly approved a resolution condemning the US embargo.
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The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Monday to impose an immediate arms embargo against Ivory Coast and gave the country's warring sides one month to revive a shattered peace process or face more sanctions.
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Friends and adversaries of the United States voted overwhelmingly in the UN General Assembly on Thursday against the four-decade-old American economic, financial and commercial embargo against Cuba.
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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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KABUL - A breakaway Taleban group claiming to hold three UN workers threatened Saturday to execute them unless foreign troops withdrew from Afghanistan and condemned its âinvasionâ by US-led forces.
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Convalescing Fidel Castro lambasted President Bush on Tuesday for opposing the European Union's goal for an agreement on carbon emissions at next week's Group of Eight summit.
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The State Department says Cuba&#39;s move to ban the circulation of dollars underscores the weakness of Fidel Castro&#39;s communist government.
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The United States is pushing for prompt UN Security Council approval of a resolution threatening sanctions against Sudan for failing to protect civilians in Darfur.
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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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The U.N. Security Council on  Monday imposed an immediate arms embargo on Ivory Coast and  voted to punish key government and rebel leaders with  additional sanctions next month.
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Fidel Castro wrote Tuesday U.S. President George W. Bush is threatening the world with nuclear war and famine Â an attack on Washington a day before the White House plans to announce new plans to draw Cuba away from communism.
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The new United Nations human rights watchdog earned mixed reviews Tuesday after its treatment of Cuba and Israel caused friction among major powers.
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The U.N. Security Council on Monday imposed an immediate arms embargo on Ivory Coast and voted to punish key government and rebel leaders with additional sanctions next month.
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Pope John Paul repeated his  condemnation of the U.S. economic embargo against  Communist-ruled Cuba on Saturday, saying the island nation  needed proper conditions for its development.
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Washington says Cuba should move to democracy after Fidel Castro says he is retiring, but its embargo stands.
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An Amnesty International report criticises the US over its treatment of prisoners during the war on terror.
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Cuba hailed on Wednesday a decision by the new United Nations human rights watchdog to drop the communist nation from a list of countries with poor rights records, calling it a major diplomatic victory over its longtime ideological foe the United States.