Cuba mourns Vilma Espin, rebel &#39;first lady&#39;
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Cuba held a day of mourning Tuesday for Vilma Espin Guillois, the guerrilla who became the most powerful woman in the revolution that propelled her brother-in-law Fidel Castro to power.
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SAN CARLOS CITY -- Officials, relatives and supporters of Fernando Poe Jr. grieved upon knowing the death of the movie actor Tuesday.
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BOGOTA, Colombia -- Ariel Perez was, like thousands of fellow Cuban doctors, a devoted soldier in Fidel Castro's most important overseas mission -- providing medical care to the poor in oil-rich Venezuela, Cuba's most vital ally. But last year, Perez and two Cuban companions, carrying rucksacks with...
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HAVANA/PANAMA CITY  - Cuba cut diplomatic ties  with Panama on Thursday after its outgoing leader pardoned four  Cuban exiles who plotted to kill President Fidel Castro in  2000.
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BOGOTA, Colombia, Jan. 10 -- Venezuelan President Hugo ChÃÂ¡vez said that two women held by Colombian rebels for years were handed over to his government Thursday, triggering celebrations in this country. By early afternoon, they were being flown out of a Colombian jungle to be reunited with family...
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The former first lady was laid to rest beside President Johnson at the familyâs ranch in the Texas Hill Country.
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US President George W. Bush mourned Afghanistan&#39;s last king Mohammed Zahir Shah, who died Monday aged 92, as a &quot;monumental figure&quot; in his country&#39;s history.
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ASUNCION, Paraguay  - The daughter of Paraguay's  former President Raul Cubas was found dead on Wednesday  underneath a house near the capital, nearly five months after  she was kidnapped, government officials said.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Thousands of mourners, some praying and many in tears, filed past the coffin of Augusto Pinochet on Monday, paying their respects to a former dictator who divides Chilean public opinion in death as he did in life.
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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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HAVANA/PANAMA CITY  - Cuba severed diplomatic ties  with Panama on Thursday in anger at its outgoing leader  pardoning four Cuban exiles imprisoned for plotting to kill  President Fidel Castro in 2000.
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Cuba&#39;s &#39;legendary&#39; leader, Fidel Castro, broke his knee and fractured his right arm when he fell down behind the podium during a speech at a graduation ceremony in Santa Clara.
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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.
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Cuba said Thursday&#39;s death of Palestinian Authority leader Yasser Arafat was a &quot;cause for dismay in the international community.
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The Argentine rebel who led the assassination of Nicaragua's military ruler in 1980 dies at 65.
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Lady Bird Johnson's wit, wisdom and love of beauty &#151; in nature, in children and in democracy &#151; were remembered Saturday as family, friends and presidents bade farewell at her funeral.
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As politicians pay tribute to a fallen leader, the country's Pakistanis are trying to come to terms with what her death means for their homeland