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Date set for Cuba-US immigration talks in Havana

AP News 12 days ago

Cuba says immigration talks with US set for Feb. 19, wants people-smuggling crackdown Cuba wants to negotiate an agreement with the U.S. to slow the trafficking of its citizens fleeing the island and hopes to tackle the issue during immigration talks rescheduled ...

Detained contractor still under investigation in Cuba

Reuters US Online Report Domestic News 12 days ago

HAVANA (Reuters) - A U.S. contractor accused by Cuba of distributing illegal communications equipment remains under investigation, and his alleged actions would be considered a "serious crime" anywhere in the world, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said on Thursday. Whether Rodriguez signaled ...

Cuba Meeting

AP News 13 days ago

Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez speaks during a meeting with Cubans living abroad in Havana, Wednesday, Jan.27, 2009. 450 Cubans living abroad are in Cuba for a three-day forum with Cuban officials to talk about the U.S. embargo.(AP Photo/Franklin Reyes) Copyright 2010 ...

Cuba, U.S. set for migration talks next month

Reuters US Online Report Politics News 13 days ago

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban and U.S. negotiators will meet in February for a second round of talks on migration issues since the discussions were renewed last summer, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said on Wednesday. He said no date was set for ...

Almost 300,000 Cubans abroad visited island in '09

AP News 13 days ago

Havana says nearly 300,000 Cubans living overseas visited island in 2009; most from US Nearly 300,000 Cubans living abroad visited their homeland last year, the island's foreign minister said Wednesday, but he insisted a loosening of travel restrictions on Cuban-Americans coming to ...

Hard labor for Haiti's amputee mothers

AFP Global Edition 14 days ago

When the screams of women giving birth died down, you could hear the subdued cries of those babies who made it alive into the chaotic post-quake suffering of Port-au-Prince's general hospital. The women lay atop mattresses on gravel in the sweltering heat ...

Washington soothes anger over new airline security

Reuters US Online Report Top News 16 days ago

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Extra airline security checks introduced after the failed Christmas Day bomb plot are still evolving, a senior U.S. official said on Sunday after some states alleged the screening singled them out unfairly. U.S. President Barack Obama ordered extra pre-flight ...

APTOPIX Gamboa Mtagwa Boxing

AP News 16 days ago

Yuriorkis Gamboa, of Cuba, lands a left against Rogers Mtagwa during a WBA featherweight title fight on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010 in New York. Gamboa won by a knockout in the second round. (AP Photo/Gregory Payan) Copyright 2010 AP News

Latam leftists to meet on new regional currency

AFP Global Edition 17 days ago

Venezuela and leftist allies will meet Monday in Caracas to fine tune a new regional currency to break the "dependency on the (US) dollar," President Hugo Chavez said Saturday. "On Monday... we'll have a very important meeting of economy ministers from ALBA ...

Guantanamo detainee fate rests with US judges: analysts

AFP Global Edition 18 days ago

A year after President Barack Obama ordered Guantanamo closed, the prison remains intact and some 50 detainees appear set to be locked up indefinitely. But civilian judges still have the final say over their detention, analysts say. A Justice Department-led task force ...

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