Cuban energy minister loses power
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Cuba's energy minister is fired  amid a crisis  that leaves millions of Cubans without electricity every day.
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U.S. intelligence reports now say the Cuban leader's condition appears terminal, government officials tell TIME
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Cabinet ministers in the Hamas-led Palestinian government resigned Thursday, a step toward forming a unity government with Palestinian President Mamoud Abbas' Fatah party.
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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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Joyous celebration in Miami over news that an ailing Fidel Castro had temporarily ceded power gave way Tuesday to rampant speculation among Cuban exiles: Is Castro already dead? What will happen in Cuba after he is gone? Is this just a trick?
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Vilma Espin Guillois, the wife of acting President Raul Castro and one of the communist nation's most politically powerful women, died Monday, the Cuban government announced. She was 77.
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Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro stepped down on Tuesday 49 years after taking power in an armed revolution, closing the book on a Cold War career that made him an icon to leftists and a tyrant to his foes.
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A Cuba expert discusses Fidelâs illness, the nation's changing mood as he relinquishes power and how Havana could affect the U.S. presidential elections.
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A minister resigned Monday, days after her brother's arrest for helping paramilitaries.
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Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro stepped down on Tuesday after almost half a century at Cuba's helm, setting the stage for an orderly transfer of power to his brother Raul.
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The minister leading Bolivia's efforts to nationalize Bolivia's oil and gas operations resigned Friday after his government backed down in a dispute with Brazil's state-run energy company, the industry's biggest investor.
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Before disappearing from public life in 2006 and officially stepping down as Cuba's president Tuesday, Fidel Castro ruled the country with an iron fist, despite numerous attempts by his enemies to do away with him.
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An Afghan Cabinet minister resigned Monday after President Hamid Karzai rejected his drive to shut down relief groups he accused of wasting money on expensive cars and houses.
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Greeceâs culture minister pruned the powers of the countryâs new archaeology chief after the dismissal and suicide attempt of the politician who preceded him in that post.
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Conoco Phillips is pulling out of its Venezuelan oil ventures after failing to agree on new contract terms with the populist government of President Hugo ChÃÂ¡vez, and Exxon Mobil said it had also reached an impasse in negotiations there.
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The most visible change in Cuba since an   ailing Fidel Castro handed power to his brother is that there   are fewer speeches, but a discreet transfer from personal to   institutional rule is underway, led by acting president Raul   Castro, Cuba experts say.
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RIGA, Latvia (International Herald Tribune) - Latvia's government lost two ministers Friday in a widening row over the prime minister's decision to suspend the Baltic nation's top anti-corruption investigator. The dispute has left the government on the verge of collapse, but Prime Minister Aigars Kalvitis said his four-party coalition would stay in office to work on the national budget.