Cuba cuts relations with Panama
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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 and the US trade bitter words after Cuba announced it was banning the use of dollars on the island.
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Ailing leader Fidel Castro resigns as Cuba's president
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Ailing leader Fidel Castro resigned as Cuba's president from nearly a half-century early Tuesday, saying in a letter published in online official media that he would not accept a new term when the newly elected parliament meets on Sunday
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BRUSSELS, Feb 1 (IPS) - The European Union's decision to restore  diplomatic ties with Cuba Monday has angered human rights and  press groups.
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"But it is positive that we are talking about it. Surely, when we talk our positions will become more understandable."  Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Cuba was on the verge of a 'major transition,' and chided Spain on Friday for doing business with Fidel Castro while not working more to support dissidents in the communist island nation.Rice's one-day visit here was meant to smooth over a three-year downturn in relations between Washington and the government Madrid, but the disagreement over Cuba has threatened to wash away any growing good will. At issue is Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos's decision to snub Cuban dissidents on a visit to Havana in April. Read more
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Cuba announced yesterday that it had re-established formal contacts with Spain after a freeze in relations, despite continued EU measures against the island and the new Spanish prime minister - s recent ...
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Cuban President Fidel Castro, seeking to  rid his country of the currency of his arch-enemy, said on  Monday Cuba was ending circulation of the U.S. dollar as of  Nov. 8 in response to tightened American sanctions.
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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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Cuba severed diplomatic ties with Panama on Thursday, retaliating within hours for the president's pardoning four Cuban emigres accused of trying to assassinate Cuban President Fidel Castro.
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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 announced Monday that U.S. dollars will no longer be accepted at businesses and stores on the communist island starting next month in a move that will radically change the way cash transactions have been done there over the past decade.
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Panama's president on Thursday pardoned four Cuban emigres accused of trying to assassinate Cuban President Fidel Castro despite Havana's threat to cut diplomatic ties over such a move.
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Chicago Tribune - The Cuban government announced Monday that it is restoring diplomatic contacts with eight European countries almost two years after European nations scaled back their ties following the communist government's crackdown on dissent.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will not attend the inauguration of the new president of Panama and has withdrawn his ambassador to the Central American country to protest comments by outgoing President Mireya Moscoso, said the ambassador on Friday.
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A measure that would end the U.S. ban on travel to Cuba was dropped on Wednesday by its chief House of Representatives sponsor, who said he could not get "meaningful debate" in an election year on legislation that has attracted bipartisan support for several years.
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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.