Russia to grant Cuba &#36;350 million credit
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Russia agreed on Thursday to grant Cuba credit worth $350 million and restructure some of its recent debt during a visit by Russia's prime minister, officials said. The two countries also signed a military cooperation agreement.
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The World Bank said on Wednesday it will lend Peru &#36;5 million to help preserve the country's best-known cultural sites, including Machu Picchu and the Sacred Valley of the Incas.
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Cuba said on Monday that it was ending  circulation of the U.S. dollar in its territory as of Nov. 8 in  response to tightened U.S. economic sanctions.
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The United States will provide $350  million in aid for victims of Asia's devastating tsunami, a  government official said on Friday.
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Cuba on Monday rejected Washington's offer of &#36;50,000 in post-Hurricane Charley aid, calling the gesture hypocritical and the amount humiliating.
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TRIPOLI: Libya signed a deal yesterday to pay $35 million (BD13m) in compensation to mainly German victims of a Berlin nightclub bombing 18 years ago.
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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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Russia will seek to raise at least 246.75 billion rubles ($8.6 billion) by selling a majority stake in OAO Yukos Oil Co.&#39;s main oil-producing unit next month, the Federal Property Fund said.
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Russia's YUKOS raised &#36;357 million to put toward a &#36;3.4 billion tax claim on Tuesday by selling a stake in a gas venture to partner TNK-BP, as analysts said the company was technically ready for bankruptcy.
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Libya signed a deal on Friday to pay &#36;35 million in compensation for more than 160 victims of a Berlin nightclub bombing in 1986, taking another major step toward ending its international isolation.
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China National Petroleum Corp. is willing to lend the state-controlled buyer of the embattled Yukos oil company's biggest production unit up to &#36;6 billion to finance the purchase, a newspaper reported Tuesday.
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Russia all but ratified the treaty Thursday, lending it the support needed for passage.
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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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Russia announced Tuesday it was pouring &#36;5.4 billion in additional funding into its security agencies, indicating it was trying to mobilize resources quickly for a battle on terrorism that President Vladimir Putin has called the country's No. 1 priority.
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China lent Russia &#36;6 billion to help the Kremlin renationalize the key unit of oil major YUKOS, officials said on Tuesday, underpinning oil-hungry Beijing's efforts to tap into Russia's huge energy business.
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MONTREAL (CP) - Alcan Inc. is investing &#36;55 million US in the Russian packaging market to build and equip two factories in the Moscow and St. Petersburg regions.
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esilient Russia is going to another gold-medal game in women&#39;s volleyball, and it will take on China, which ended Cuba&#39;s streak of three straight Olympic championships.