California sends first trade mission to Cuba
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California, the top U.S. food producing state, has sent its first official agricultural trade mission to communist Cuba, looking to tap a potential $180 million food market.
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California made a bold move to curb   global warming by passing on Thursday the first bill in the   United States to cap man-made greenhouse gas emissions, an   action state leaders hope will be copied across the country.
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SACRAMENTO, California  - California made a bold   move to curb global warming by passing on Thursday the United   States' first bill to cap man-made greenhouse gas emissions   which state leaders hope will be emulated across the country.
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California becomes the first US state to provide funding for stem cell research, medical experiments that involve human embryos.
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HAVANA  - Cuba signed a production contract with China Petroleum &amp; Chemical Corp., or SINOPEC, to work in areas around the island believed to contain oil deposits, the government announced Monday.
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HAVANA -- Cuba has agreed to buy about $125 million in farm goods from US companies attending trade talks in Havana, officials say.
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An oil deposit with an estimated 100-million-barrel reserve has been discovered off Cuba&#39;s coast by Canadian companies Sherritt International Corp.
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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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While the Washington debate on US Cuba policy remains stuck on the issue of trade sanctions, the world has not stood still. At a recent meeting sponsored by the Czech government in Prague, a
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American producers sold $437.5 million in food to Cuba in 2007, a new peak in value despite Cuban complaints that the Bush administration is hindering trade.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Spain for what is meant to be a fence-mending trip on Friday but her first words were of reproach for its policy of engaging Cuba.
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Sandra de los Santos became famous this summer when she left Cuba for the Bahamas and then, after a brief disappearance, climbed out of a wooden cargo crate in Miami. Her odyssey was one of the more creative ways that dozens of Cubans have made bids to reach the United States in recent years.
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Work is under way on the first undersea telecommunications cable linking the US with China.
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Cuba put up several huge billboards near  the U.S. mission on Friday with pictures of abused Iraqi  prisoners and American soldiers pointing a rifle at children,  in response to a U.S. Christmas display in support of  imprisoned Cuban dissident.
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California&#39;s premier Napa Valley wine region on Thursday became the first US terroir to have its name protected in the European Union.
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U.S. food producers significantly increased their sales to Cuba last year despite a long-standing trade embargo against the communist island, according to a Cuba-U.S. business group.
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HAVANA -- Cuba on Monday signed contracts to buy $10 million of US wheat and meat products, and $300,000 of American dairy cattle, launching a new round of deals for US farm products projected to reach $150 million.