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Ex-State Dept official pleads guilty to spying for Cuba

Reuters US Online Report Top News 6 days ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A former U.S. State Department official and his wife pleaded guilty on Friday to charges that they spied for almost three decades for the Communist-led Cuban government. Walter Kendall Myers had "top secret" clearance and, with the help of ...

Couple pleads guilty in Cuban spying case

AP News 6 days ago

Retired State Department worker and wife plead guilty to plotting to spy for Cuba A retired State Department worker and his wife accused of a decades-long plot to spy for Cuba pleaded guilty Friday in a deal that will leave him behind ...

Obama answers questions from top Cuban blogger

AP News 6 days ago

Obama answers top Cuban dissident blogger, says Cuban gov't must change to improve relations President Barack Obama has answered questions submitted by a celebrated Cuban blogger, saying he isn't interested in "talking for the sake of talking" with Raul Castro and indicating ...

House Holds Hearing On Lifting Travel Ban To Cuba

Getty Images 7 days ago

WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 19: Former Chief of Mission of the U.S. Interests Section in Havana James Cason testifies before before the House Foreign Affairs Committee during a hearing on the travel ban for U.S. citizens to Cuba on Capitol Hill November 19, ...

Obama praises dissident Cuban blogger Sanchez

Reuters US Online Report Politics News 7 days ago

HAVANA (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama praised dissident Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez and said in a posting on her website on Thursday that he looks forward to the day "all Cubans can freely express themselves." The U.S. leader, in responses to ...

Cuba Concert

AP News 7 days ago

A student stands next to a painting of a Cuban flag in Pinar del Rio, Cuba, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009. French and Cuban singers will perform a concert as part of the UNICEF fund raising program "Schools Against Hurricanes", aimed to rebuild ...

Pelosi douses hopes for quick end to Cuba travel ban

AFP American Edition 7 days ago

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that congressional efforts to end the US ban on travel to Cuba would take a back seat to overhauling US health care and fostering job creation. "I've always been a supporter of lifting the travel ...

Cuba's Raul Castro crushes dissent like Fidel: report

Reuters US Online Report World News 8 days ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cuba's Raul Castro has kept the system his brother Fidel used to repress critics, refusing to free scores of people imprisoned years ago and jailing others for "dangerousness," Human Rights Watch said in a report issued on Wednesday. The ...

Serious rights violations in Raul Castro's Cuba: HRW

AFP American Edition 8 days ago

Communist Cuba's shift from Fidel Castro's leadership to President Raul Castro's has brought continued serious human rights violations including persistent aggression against dissidents. A new report by Human Rights Watch released Wednesday cited examples such as at least 40 people arrested for ...

US rights group finds abuses rife in Raul's Cuba

AP News 8 days ago

US rights group says Cubans' lives unimproved under 2nd Castro and worse in some ways Human Rights Watch says conditions in Cuba have not improved under Raul Castro and in some ways are worse than they had been when his brother Fidel ...

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