EU Ends Diplomatic Freeze Against Cuba
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European Union foreign ministers agreed Monday to restore normal diplomatic relations with the Cuban government while pledging to increase contacts with critics of President Fidel Castro.
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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 severed diplomatic relations with  Panama on Thursday, angered by the outgoing Panamanian  president's decision to free four activists accused of trying  to blow up Cuban President Fidel Castro four years ago.
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The European Union agrees to lift its embargo on the sale of arms to Libya.
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Cuba announced that it is renewing ties with the European Union as well as all EU countries that have embassies on the island.
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The European Union (EU) agreed in principle to lift an arms embargo on Libya after pressure from Italy.
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The European Union's foreign ministers agreed today to lift an arms embargo on Libya, marking a further step toward returning the country to the international diplomatic fold.
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European Union foreign ministers agreed on Monday to invite a Cuban delegation to Brussels to explore the scope for a gradual thaw in ties but chose not to end a four-year-old freeze in contacts.
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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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HAVANA  - Cuba said Monday it was resuming formal ties with all of Europe, ending a deep freeze in relations following a 2003 crackdown on dissidents and the firing-squad executions of three men who tried to hijack a ferry.
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Cuba on Wednesday cheered the new U.N. human rights watchdog's agreement to stop monitoring alleged abuses on the island, with Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque saying the decision left the United States "hanging and we yanked away the ladder."
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MADRID -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a lightning stop here yesterday, intending to signal an end to the Bush administration's diplomatic deep freeze of the Spanish government, but new tensions emerged over dealings with Cuba.
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Cuban authorities on Tuesday freed dissident writer Raul Rivero, the latest of half a dozen political prisoners released over the past few days in a move widely seen as intended to court favor with the European Union.
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Spain and Cuba said on Thursday they had  held talks on human rights, an issue that led to a diplomatic  freeze with the European Union, but did not say whether they  discussed 59 dissidents held in prison in Cuba.
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The European Union is considering a  shift in policy toward Cuba that would get it back on speaking  terms with President Fidel Castro's government, diplomats said.
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Havana ends its "cocktail wars" with the EU, resuming ties with the union and four member states still out in the cold.
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LUXEMBOURG - The European Union on Monday ended 12 years of sanctions against Libya and eased an arms embargo to reward the North African country for giving up plans to develop weapons of mass destruction.    The decision by the EU foreign ministers brought the 25-nation bloc in line with a U.N...