International banks shun Cuba under U.S. scrutiny
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Heightened scrutiny of banking transactions by the United States since the September 11 attacks has led European and Canadian banks to curtail dealings with Cuba, bankers and businesses say.
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Cuba has won approval for a draft resolution at the 21-nation Ibero-American Summit condemning a Panamanian pardon for four men accused of trying to assassinate Cuban President Fidel Castro at a meeting four years ago.
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Cuba broke off diplomatic relations with Panama after Panama&#39;s President Mireya Moscoso pardoned four Cubans convicted over a plot to kill Cuban leader Fidel Castro, Agence France-Presse reported.
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The State Department's decision to deny visas to 65 Cuban scholars seeking to attend a conference in Las Vegas drew protests Wednesday from Congress and academia.
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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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Cuba on Monday rejected Washington's offer of &#36;50,000 in post-Hurricane Charley aid, calling the gesture hypocritical and the amount humiliating.
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The U.S. Justice Department and other  authorities have stepped up investigations into several large  European banks for violating sanctions against Iran, Libya,  Cuba and Sudan, the Financial Times reported in its online  edition.
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The State Department is accusing Cuba of training Colombian rebels and says it is troubled by a large presence of Cuban personnel in Venezuela, whose president, Hugo Chavez, is a close ally of Cuban President Fidel Castro.
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CORAL GABLES, Florida  - The U.S. economic embargo against Cuba has deprived its communist government of funds it might otherwise have used for military adventures, U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez said on Thursday.
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Cuba said on Saturday it barred entry to three European lawmakers on a trip to support dissidents, setting back Spain's campaign to mend frosty ties between the EU bloc and the communist-ruled island.
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The US and Cuba have launched into another bitter war of words following Cuba&#39;s decision to ban transactions in dollars on the island.
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Cuba severs ties with Panama after it pardons four Cuban exiles accused of plotting to kill Fidel Castro.
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Cuba announces a ban on commercial transactions in dollars in response to tighter US sanctions.
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Cuba has ended circulation of the US dollar in an attempt to resist a tightening US blockade. Dollar transactions that have been allowed for the last 11 years were replaced by convertible Cuban pesos, which are worthless outside Cuba.
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Cuba said on Monday that it was ending  circulation of the U.S. dollar in its territory as of Nov. 8 in  response to tightened U.S. economic sanctions.
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BUCK STOPS HERE: Cuba announces that dollars will no longer be accepted in stores and businesses, saying it is trying to regain control of its economy as Washington cracks down on the flow of the US currency to Cuba.
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Cuba accuses the US of issuing fewer entry visas to Cubans than allowed for by a deal between the two countries.