Cuba Breaks Ties with Panama Over Bomb Pardon
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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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HAVANA, Nov 30 (IPS) - The release of five dissidents over the past two  days  could pave the way for an eventual patching up of ties  between Cuba and the  European Union, say diplomats and  activists.
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Venezuela's ambassador to Panama, Flavio Granados, said late on Friday his country had asked him to leave Panama after statements made by its leader in the midst of a diplomatic scandal involving Cuba.
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Cuba ended circulation of the dollar on  Monday to reduce its vulnerability to U.S. sanctions, and  shops, restaurants, gas stations, hotels and other businesses  began accepting only Cuban convertible pesos.
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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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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- A former prisoner at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, thought to have forged ties with Al Qaeda since his release is leading a militant band whose members have strapped explosives on two Chinese engineers they kidnapped in a lawless region near the Afghanistan border.
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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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Diego Maradona has left a Cuban mental  health clinic where he was being treated for drug addiction and  moved back to a health spa, Argentina's outgoing ambassador in  Havana, Raul Taleb, said on Friday.
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Cuba has freed one of the country&#39;s best-known dissidents, the acclaimed poet and journalist Raul Rivero. The 59-year-old was among 75 people arrested in a huge government crackdown last year and given long prison terms.
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At least three political dissidents have been released in Cuba after being jailed in a crackdown last year.
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Panama's outgoing president on  Thursday pardoned four Cuban exiles jailed for plotting to kill  Cuban President Fidel Castro in 2000 and three or them flew  straight to Miami, a haven of anti-Castro groups.
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MADRID, June 1 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a lightning stop here Friday, intending to signal an end to the Bush administration's diplomatic deepfreeze of the Spanish government, but new tensions emerged over dealings with Cuba.
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Bush administration officials denied any role Thursday in the pardon of four Cuban exiles by Panama. Three of the exiles -- convicted in a plot to assassinate Fidel Castro -- were immediately flown to Miami.
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Cuba said on Monday that it was ending circulation of the US dollar in its territory as of Nov. 8 in response to tightened US economic sanctions.
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Cuba will free seven of 59 dissidents  imprisoned since 2003, a move that opponents of ailing Cuban  leader Fidel Castro said reflects a "climate of change" under  his brother's rule.
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The government has taken US dollars out of circulation following the recent tightening of US sanctions against Cuba.
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James Bond no longer has diplomatic status &#151; at least not in Panama. The government has canceled 121 diplomatic passports issued by the previous presidential administration, including one extended to actor Sean Connery.