Cuban show cast seeking US asylum
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The Cuban cast of a Las Vegas show presented by Siegfried and Roy seek asylum in the US.
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HAVANA  - Thousands of Cubans queued up yesterday to swap US dollars - which have been legal tender here for over a decade - for local convertible pesos, in a mad rush ahead of November 8, when US currency will be locked out of commercial transactions
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An American family with three small children has applied for political asylum in Finland, immigration officials said Friday.
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Cuba's communist government said it would defend itself against U.S. attempts to take advantage of Fidel Castro's health crisis as some exiles urged Washington to go further in fostering a democratic transition on the island.
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A surge in the number of Venezuelans seeking asylum in the United States has some drawing parallels with Communist Cuba in the early 1960s.
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Just in time for the holidays, the US-Cuba propaganda war heated up Friday when Cuban authorities tacked up a huge banner outside America&#39;s diplomatic post in Havana depicting the abuse of Iraqi prisoners.
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Illegal immigrants to the United States have been arriving in a Canadian border town looking for asylum.
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Spain has called in Cuba&#39;s ambassador to Madrid to protest the Cuban expulsion of a conservative Spanish lawmaker who arrived in Havana Friday in hopes of meeting with human rights activists.
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A reputed drug kingpin sought by the United States has been deported to Colombia, Cuba's government said Thursday. Colombia has said it will extradite Luis Hernando Gomez Bustamante to the U.S.
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A Cuban troupe of 44 dancers, singers and musicians starring in a show in Las Vegas sought asylum in the United States on Monday in one of the largest mass defections by Cubans performing abroad.
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By LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ  DORAL, Fla. - More than 85 federal and local law enforcement agencies kicked off a two-day exercise Wednesday to prepare for a possible mass migration from the Caribbean, such as might occur following a change in government in Cuba.
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Forty-three members of a Cuban dance troupe performing at a Las Vegas casino asked for asylum in the United States on Monday in the one of the biggest mass defections of entertainers from the communist country.
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MIAMI, Oct 21  - Known as the capital of Cuban exiles, Miami was abuzz Thursday with news of President Fidel Castro&#39;s accident, with many Cuban-Americans bemoaning that the communist leader only fell on his face, and not from power.
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Havana - Shipwrecked Cuban boy Elian Gonzalez, who reached US shores and triggered an international custody battle, on Saturday wished President Fidel Castro a speedy recovery from a broken knee.
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One of five Cuban dissidents who have been released from prison this week has been told he should consider leaving the country. The Miami Herald reported Wednesday that writer Raul
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At least 38 Cuban doctors who defected from a mission in Venezuela have been stranded for months in Colombia, where they have been refused refugee status as they await word on possible asylum in the United States, according to a relief organization.
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Cubans saw one of their greatest  baseball players, Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez, on television  on Saturday night for the first time since he defected to the  United States a decade ago.