Cuba starts 'huge' military drill
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Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and "millions" of civilians take part in defence exercises in Cuba.
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Each day, detainees in GuantÃ¡namo Bay, Cuba, argue before anonymous military officers that they should not be there. The hearings have come under heavy criticism.
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Cuba's top anti-drug agent and European officials launched a course Monday on drug interdiction in the Caribbean, marking one of the first renewed programs since diplomatic relations between Havana and the EU were restored last month.
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Nato is to expand its mission in Afghanistan to cover the whole of the insurgency-hit country.
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Ships from  Japan, the United States, Australia and France on Tuesday began  Asia's first naval exercise to clamp down on weapons of mass  destruction, a drill that communist North Korea has called  hostile and provocative.
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Cubans awoke to air raid sirens Sunday and practised shooting, putting on gas masks and doing duck-cover drills as the country wrapped up a week of preparation after President Fidel Castro&#39;s government warned against possible attacks from
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Cuba will continue to build up its defenses against the United States and Cubans should be prepared to make more sacrifices to remain independent, Cuban leader Fidel Castro said in an editorial published on Monday.
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Cubans awoke to air raid sirens Sunday and practiced shooting, putting on gas masks and doing duck-and-cover drills as the communist nation wrapped up a week of defense exercises to prepare for any possible attack by the United States.
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Troops are massing for a huge parade and guests are arriving from around the world to celebrate Fidel Castro's delayed 80th birthday party. The only question is whether the ailing guest of honor himself will appear after four months out of the public eye.
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Ten US congressmen travel to Cuba in the largest such delegation since Fidel Castro took power in 1959.
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Tanks rolled through the streets and jets roared overhead on Saturday in Havana's first military parade in a decade, but ailing leader Fidel Castro did not show up at what had been viewed as a test of his political future.
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More than 800,000 people across Japan take part in an annual drill to prepare for a major earthquake.
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Cuba vowed to defy U.S. efforts for economic and political change on the island in a front-page editorial Thursday in the Communist Party's newspaper that also referred to dissidents as "mercenaries" and "counterrevolutionary puppies."
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Thousand of people wave Cuban flags during a rally to draw attention to the upcoming UN vote to condemn the four-decade embargo against Cuba in Havana on Saturday Oct. 23, 2004.
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Nearly one million people across Japan have taken part in drills to prepare for a major earthquake, in an annual exercise joined for the first time by US and South Korean authorities.
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Cuba is scheduled to hold military exercises nationwide in mid-December as part of its All-people's War policy to test the country's reaction to foreign aggressions, said a communique of the Ministry of the ...
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Three U.S. warships carrying about 1,400 sailors and marines were due in the southern Philippines next week for a 12-day drill to help root out Muslim militants on the archipelago's remote isles.