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Cuba

Type: Country
Name: Cuba
population: 11,295,970
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 14 hours ago - 24 Documents
Barack Obama - Click to view image in its original context
Barack Obama
President Obama recently granted an interview to Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez, which was posted at her website Sánchez, 34, was named one of 'Your blog provides the world a unique window into the realities of daily life in Cuba,' President Obama says ... [ABC News - 14 hours ago]
Entities: Cuba, Blogger, Barack Obama
First Reported 7 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 7 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
WASHINGTON --Walter Kendall Myers, 72 -- also known as ''Agent 202'' -- agreed to a life sentence without parole and to cooperate with federal prosecutors. His wife, Gwendolyn Steingraber Myers, 71 -- known as ''Agent 123'' and ''Agent E-634'' -- agreed ... [Miami Herald - 1 hour ago]
First Reported 18 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 5 Documents
Raúl Castro has failed to improve Cuba's respect for individual freedoms, . Rights advocates had hoped that Raúl would improve the island nation's rights posture after taking over from his brother, Fidel. But that has not been the case.'In his three ... [World Politics Review - 3 hours ago]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 20 Documents
As I reported yesterday, I submitted seven questions to the American president, Barack Obama. He kindly took the time to respond; following are the answers I received from the White House. President Obama's Responses to Yoani Sanchez's ... [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 11/19/2009]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 19 hours ago - 9 Documents
Congress Studying Current Restrictions on Travel to Editions: Enter search terms Choose what site to search Entire Site Middle East & North Topics: , , Keywords: , travel ban, n embargo19 November ... [America.gov - 19 hours ago]
First Reported 4 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 4 Documents
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Karl Marx
CUBA'S government has offered its first free penis implants, part of a program set to be expanded across the communist island, an official newspaper reported. It is likely not what Karl Marx had in mind when he imagined a society transformed 'from each ... [Daily Telegraph Australia - 3 hours ago]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 8 Documents
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama admitted for the first time on Wednesday that the United States would miss the January 2010 deadline he set for closing the “war on terror” prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.The US leader also said Americans should not be ... [Oman Tribune - 11/19/2009]
First Reported 4 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 3 Documents
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 ... [Yahoo! News - 1 hour ago]
First Reported 11 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 3 Documents
ABC's Whitney Lloyd reports from New York:Just 90 miles off the coast of Florida, but a world away in terms of free speech, outspoken anti-Castro blogger Yoani Sanchez published President Obama’s responses to seven questions she asked him about U.S.-Cuba ... [ABC News - 4 hours ago]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11 hours ago - 3 Documents (in Politics)
Both the American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights First were at Guantanamo this week to observe the commencement of the new, revised military commissions. Both were present for the pre-trial hearing of Mohammed Kamin, and both organizations had ... [TAPPED - 11 hours ago]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents
Havana, Cuba (CNN) – A metaphorical timeout has been in place between the United States and Cuba for nearly 50 years. But that could all be changing with the help of sports. Fifty-six Americans flew to Havana this week for a series of games with Cuban ... [CNN Political Ticker - 11/19/2009]
Entities: Cuba, Havana, United States
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 4 Documents
Republican lawmakers question whether a civilian trial would be successful and say it might again make New York a terrorist target. Holder counters: 'We need not cower in the face of this enemy.'RelatedStrong reaction to announcement of 9/11 trial in ... [Los Angeles Times - 11/19/2009]

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In a statement, Channing Phillips, the District's acting U S attorney, said the plea deal helps "close the book on this couple's contemptuous betrayal of our nation." Assistant U S Attorney G Michael Harvey said in court that Walter Myers was working in the State Department's Foreign Service Institute in 1978 when...
Cuban authorities rejected the report's findings. "HRW is an organization that analyzes this issue from a discriminatory, selective and above all politicized perspective. Its evaluation of human rights in Cuba is illegitimate and illegal" Alberto Gonzalez of the Cuban diplomatic mission in Washington

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Ex-State Dept official pleads guilty to spying ... [Yahoo! News - 1 hour ago]
Spies for Cuba plead guilty, one gets life [Miami Herald - 1 hour ago]
Israel and Palestine, US and Cuba: worlds comra... [Indian Express - 2 hours ago]
Prison holds promise for job-strapped town [Washington Post - 2 hours ago]
Pro-government mob hits, shouts down husband of... [Chicago Tribune - 2 hours ago]
Couple admits to 30 years of spying for Cuba [Washington Post - 2 hours ago]
Karzai and Obama; Guantanamo; Thierry -- what a... [Zaman - 3 hours ago]
Mvela Group -- update on unbundling [CNBC Africa - 3 hours ago]
Caucasus and Balkans, Karabakh and Bosnia by Ha... [Zaman - 3 hours ago]
Cuba's early education programs [Xinhua News Agency - 3 hours ago]
Ex-US official admits spying for Cuba [ONE News - 3 hours ago]
Guantánamo captives winning lawsuits [Miami Herald - 3 hours ago]
Raul's Cuba Shows Little Improvement on Persona... [World Politics Review - 3 hours ago]
Washington: Cubans to get free silver penis imp... [Daily Telegraph Australia - 3 hours ago]
Cubans to get free silver penis implants [Daily Telegraph Australia - 4 hours ago]
President Obama Answers Questions From Anti-Cas... [ABC News - 4 hours ago]
Caricature show chance to laugh, reflect [Viet Nam News - 4 hours ago]
Cubans to get free silver penis implants [Herald Sun - 4 hours ago]
Ex-State Dept official pleads guilty to spying ... [Reuters: Politics - 4 hours ago]
Ex-State Dept official pleads guilty to spying ... [Reuters: Top News - 4 hours ago]
Cuba offers free penis implants [The Age - 4 hours ago]
Spies for Cuba plead guilty, one gets life in p... [Miami Herald - 4 hours ago]
CLIMATE CHANGE: Health at Risk [Inter Press Service - 4 hours ago]
Washington: Old couple jailed, fined $1.85m for... [Daily Telegraph Australia - 5 hours ago]
Skelton not happy with 9/11 trials [The Hill - 5 hours ago]
Old couple jailed, fined $1.85m for spying [Herald Sun - 5 hours ago]
Elderly US couple pleads guilty in Cuba spy case [AFP via Yahoo! - 5 hours ago]
Kidnapped Britons warn Somali captors 'losing p... [Yahoo! Canada - 5 hours ago]
US welcomes interim Honduran leader's move to b... [Yahoo! Canada - 6 hours ago]
Ex-U.S. official, wife plead guilty in Cuba spy... [CNN - 6 hours ago]
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Michigan Town Tells Liz Cheney To Peddle Her Fe... [Daily Kos - 3 hours ago]
Standish, Michigan, tells Liz Cheney to sell it up the street: Officials in a small Michigan town featured in a new video about Guantanamo by Liz Cheney’s national ...
Michigan Town Rejects Liz Cheney’s ‘Fearmongeri... [Think Progress - 6 hours ago]
Recently, the Liz Cheney-founded right-wing advocacy group Keep America Safe released a mini-documentary that features several residents of Standish, Michigan, speaking ...
Jonathan Horowitz: The New Bagram: Has Anything... [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 7 hours ago]
Last weekend, the United States unveiled its new state of the art detention facility to journalists, diplomats, Afghan officials, and nongovernmental organizations. ...
Crisis in US women's leadership [AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the t ... - 7 hours ago]
John met someone promoting equality for the new EU cabinet but as I mentioned earlier, we need to do much better with promoting women. The current numbers are rightly ...
Midday Open Thread [Daily Kos - 8 hours ago]
Tenants are still "Lost in the Shuffle" when the foreclosure notices arrive. Facts are stupid things department: Testifying as an expert on the stimulus Thursday, ...
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Debating US travel ban to Cuba [Reuters Video: Top News - 7 hours ago]
Session on Fox and Friends to Discuss KSM trial... [Senator Jeff Sessions - YouTube Channel - 14 hours ago]
Rep. Barbara Lee speaks on the U.S. travel ban ... [Rep. Barbara Lee - YouTube Channel - 11/19/2009]
Softball diplomacy with Cuba [CNN International - YouTube - 11/19/2009]
Softball diplomacy with Cuba [CNN.com - Video - 11/19/2009]
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