Castro’s China visit to help speed up Cuban economy (Lead)
July 3rd, 2012 - 4:53 pm ICT by IANS
Beijing, July 3 (IANS) Cuban President Raul Castro will begin a state visit to China Wednesday, during which he will sign a number of deals that will help accelerate Cuba's ... Read more...
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Cuban president embarks on China, Vietnam trip
July 3rd, 2012 - 5:22 am ICT by IANS
Havana, July 3 (IANS) Cuban President Raul Castro has embarked on an official tour to China and Vietnam, the Prensa Latina news agency reported Monday.Castro and his delegation, including Foreign ... Read more...
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Krishna to visit Cuba to further ties
June 12th, 2012 - 5:18 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 12 (IANS) Looking to further bilateral relations with Cuba, India's External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna will be paying an official visit to Havana June 15-17.During his ... Read more...
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Chavez returns to Cuba for cancer treatment
April 9th, 2012 - 12:09 pm ICT by IANS
Havana, April 9 (IANS/EFE) Cuban President Raul Castro welcomed his Venezuelan counterpart, Hugo Chavez, back to Havana, where he will undergo another round of cancer treatment, state media reported Sunday.Chavez ... Read more...
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Chavez heads back to Venezuela
March 17th, 2012 - 12:17 pm ICT by IANS
Caracas, March 17 (IANS/EFE) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced Friday via Twitter that he was returning to the Andean nation after spending three weeks in Cuba for cancer treatment."Good afternoon, ... Read more...
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Fidel Castro meets cancer-stricken Hugo Chavez
March 3rd, 2012 - 2:38 pm ICT by IANS
Mexico, March 3 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Cuban President Raul Castro and his brother Fidel Castro visited cancer-stricken Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who is currently recovering from a medical surgery, the Univision ... Read more...
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Chavez back in Cuba for more surgery
February 26th, 2012 - 1:36 pm ICT by IANS
Havana, Feb 26 (IANS/EFE) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was back in Cuba Saturday having medical examinations in preparation for an operation on a "lesion", possibly malignant, in the same place ... Read more...
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Raul Castro vows battle against corruption
December 24th, 2011 - 12:39 pm ICT by IANS
Havana, Dec 24 (IANS/EFE) Cuban President Raul Castro warned that there was "no thinking twice about the battle against crime and corruption" and urged his government to be "implacable" in ... Read more...
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Raul Castro’s daughter launches blog
December 23rd, 2011 - 12:19 pm ICT by IANS
Havana, Dec 23 (IANS/EFE) Mariela Castro, the daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro and director of the National Sexual Education Center, has launched a blog."El blog de Mariela Castro" featured ... Read more...
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Cuba, China to enhance military cooperation
October 28th, 2011 - 1:30 pm ICT by IANS
Havana, Oct 28 (IANS) China and Cuba have pledged to take forward their bilateral ties and promote cooperation between their militaries.The affirmation came Thursday during a meeting between Cuban President ... Read more...
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Fidel Castro turns 85
August 14th, 2011 - 1:20 pm ICT by IANS
Havana, Aug 14 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Fidel Castro, the charismatic leader of the Cuban Revolution, celebrated his 85th birthday Saturday.Singers and musicians from nine Latin American countries Friday night dedicated a ... Read more...
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Cuban gay couple plans to wed on Fidel Castro’s birthday
July 18th, 2011 - 12:00 pm ICT by IANS
Havana, July 18 (IANS/EFE) A transsexual and a homosexual Cuban will marry Aug 13 in Havana in the first wedding of this type to be held on the island on ... Read more...
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Chavez returns to Cuba for treatment
July 18th, 2011 - 11:44 am ICT by IANS
Havana, July 18 (IANS/EFE) Cuban President Raul Castro was at the Havana airport to welcome Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who returned to the island to begin the second phase of ... Read more...
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Ailing Chavez returns to Venezuela
July 5th, 2011 - 11:19 am ICT by IANS
Caracas, July 5 (IANS/EFE) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez arrived early Monday in Caracas aboard an airplane from Cuba, state-owned VTV reported.Chavez arrived at 2 a.m. and the state television network ... Read more...
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Cuban president proposes to set term limits for officials
April 17th, 2011 - 12:01 pm ICT by IANS
Havana, April 17 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Office terms of high-ranking officials in Cuba should be limited to 10 years, Cuban President Raul Castro told the 6th Communist Party Congress which opened ... Read more...
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A tale of another Fidel Castro!
November 21st, 2010 - 10:41 am ICT by IANS
San Juan, Nov 21 (IANS/EFE) When a 49-year-old native of Cuba took an oath in an American court and promised to fulfill the duties as a US citizen, the people present in ... Read more...
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Fidel Castro Feels Misinterpreted For Comment On Cuban Economy
September 12th, 2010 - 9:32 pm ICT by GD
By Meena Kar
Sep 12, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Former Cuban President and revolutionary Fidel Castro has said that a US magazine misinterpreted his comment about the Cuban economy. He said that he made the ... Read more...
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Fidel Castro addresses Cuban parliament
August 8th, 2010 - 12:12 am ICT by IANS
Havana, Aug 7 (IANS) Cuba's revolutionary leader Fidel Castro Saturday delivered a speech on the Iranian nuclear issue before country's parliament, his first official appearance in four years.
Dressed in his ... Read more...
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Fidel Castro releases his book ‘The Strategic Victory’
August 3rd, 2010 - 3:09 pm ICT by IANS
Havana, Aug 3 (IANS) Cuba's revolutionary leader Fidel Castro has released his book "The Strategic Victory", a memoir of the victory of his rebel forces against the country's dictator Fulgencio Batista in ... Read more...
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Elian Gonzalez Expresses That He Is Happy To Be In Cuba
July 2nd, 2010 - 8:11 pm ICT by Pen Men At Work
July 2, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): 16-year-old Elian Gonzalez has expressed his gratefulness to the American populace for assisting him to return to his Dad in Cuba. Who is Elian ... Read more...
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Cuba, Botswana sign cooperation agreements
June 10th, 2010 - 9:59 pm ICT by IANS
Havana, June 10 (IANS/EFE) Cuba and Botswana have signed here two agreements for close cooperation between the foreign ministries and in the health sector.
Botswana Foreign Minister Phadu Skelernani and Cuban Deputy ... Read more...
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Cuba celebrates 50th anniversary of Hemingway-Castro meet
May 15th, 2010 - 9:39 am ICT by IANS
Havana, May 15 (IANS/EFE) Cuban citizens at a small coastal village near the capital city of Havana are celebrating the 50th anniversary of a meeting between former president Fidel Castro and Nobel ... Read more...
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We never ordered an adversary killed: Fidel Castro
March 3rd, 2010 - 1:20 pm ICT by IANS
Havana, March 3 (IANS/EFE) Fidel Castro has confronted international and opposition criticism of the Cuban government following last week's death of political prisoner Orlando Zapata Tamayo after an 85-day hunger strike, saying ... Read more...
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Castro ready to talk with US under conditions of equality
February 25th, 2010 - 12:05 pm ICT by IANS
Rio de Janeiro, Feb 25 (IANS/EFE) Cuban President Raul Castro has confirmed that his government is ready to talk with the US about any subject, but under conditions of equality, Brazil's official ... Read more...
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Latin American and Caribbean countries to form new bloc without U.S. and Canada
February 24th, 2010 - 2:03 am ICT by BNO News
CANCUN, MEXICO (BNO NEWS) – Latin American leaders gathered in a two-day summit in Mexico and have agreed to create a regional bloc, which excludes the U.S. and Canada, Mexican President Felipe ... Read more...
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US urges Cuba to free jailed American contractor
February 20th, 2010 - 11:35 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Feb 20 (IANS/EFE) The US government has called on Cuban authorities to immediately release American contractor Alan Gross, who has been jailed in Havana since Dec 4 on espionage charges.
Deputy Assistant ... Read more...
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Copenhagen meet a failure: Raul Castro
December 14th, 2009 - 12:30 pm ICT by IANS
Havana, Dec 14 (EFE) The climate change meeting in Copenhagen was a failure, Cuban President Raul Castro said at a regional summit here.
Speaking at the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas, or ALBA, ... Read more...
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Cuba, Venezuela ink deals worth $3.16 bn
December 14th, 2009 - 9:23 am ICT by IANS
Havana, Dec 14 (EFE) The governments of Cuban and Venezuela bolstered their bilateral cooperation with the signing and negotiation of 285 new projects for 2010 worth $3.15 billion, including the creation of ... Read more...
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EU urges Cuba to carry out democratic reforms
November 6th, 2009 - 9:28 pm ICT by IANS
Havana, Nov 6 (EFE) Cuba must carry out democratic reforms in the country as a step to normalise relations with the European Union (EU), an official of the 27-member bloc said.
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Fidel Castro’s sister reveals she worked for CIA
October 27th, 2009 - 12:57 am ICT by IANS
Miami/Washington, Oct 26 (DPA) Juanita Castro, sister of Cuban leaders Fidel and Raul Castro, worked for the CIA for three years, according to details emerging from her book which is being released ... Read more...
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Cuba frees two political prisoners
October 21st, 2009 - 12:51 pm ICT by IANS
Havana, Oct 21 (EFE) The Cuban government has freed two political prisoners and released on bail a Spanish businessman in a gesture to mark the just-completed visit by Spain's foreign minister ... Read more...
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Palestinian president to meet Raul Castro
September 26th, 2009 - 3:23 pm ICT by IANS
Havana, Sep 26 (RIA Novosti) Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will be meeting Cuban President Raul Castro in Havana during his official visit, the Cuban Foreign Ministry said Saturday morning.
Abbas is travelling from ... Read more...
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Raul Castro ready to talk to US, but rules out negotiations on Cuba’s socialism
August 2nd, 2009 - 12:07 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Aug 2 (ANI): Cuban President Raul Castro has said that he is ready to talk about everything and anything with the United States, but added that the country's political system was ... Read more...
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End the Gaza blockade, Hamas tells NAM summit
July 15th, 2009 - 9:10 pm ICT by IANS
Gaza City/Cairo, July 15 (DPA) Hamas Wednesday called on world leaders gathered in Egypt for the 15th summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) to take "all necessary measures" to end the blockade ... Read more...
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US needs to make ‘gestures,’ not Cuba: Raul Castro
April 30th, 2009 - 1:24 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Apr.30 (ANI): Cuban strongman Raul Castro has said that it is the United States that needs to come forward with gestures to show that it is keen on improving relations with ... Read more...
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