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By LESLEY CLARK | McClatchy Newspapers Opponents of opening Cuba to American tourists are touting a letter signed by 53 Democrats in the House of Representatives, saying it shows that they have the votes to derail an effort to...
Yoaní Sánchez, Cuba's most famous blogger, who has received countless international awards for her activism, was detained briefly and beaten by Cuban authorities on November 6, along with fellow bloggers, Claudia Cadelo (a...
By SHEILA RILEY | FOR INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY Cuba, land of beaches, salsa clubs, aging U.S. cars and .. . high-tech? The communist island nation can become a tech success story, says Mark Entwistle , Canada’s former...
and has 225 affiliated organizations in 148 countries. Affiliates are unions, union confederations or peak level associations. Association maintains close links with different UN bodies and has consultative status in some of...
By DAVE COLLINS , Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. - An effort to honor a Sept. 11 victim in Connecticut has been halted by the unexpected conflict arising from the victim's father insisting that his son's memorial say he was...
"America can, and should, close down Guantanamo" (Nov. 5) conflates two unrelated issues. The first is how America should treat these enemy combatants and assassins. In spite of their malice, a good argument can be made that...
Source: Human Rights Watch (Washington, DC) â€" Cuban authorities should cease all attacks on human rights defenders, journalists, bloggers and civic activists, Human Rights Watch said today. The international ...
Sounds from the culture club November 6, 2009 X-Sender: Asbed Bedrossian asbed@usc.edu X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApsEAGd59UpEtb/H/2dsb2JhbACQD7w9hTuIToQ+BIwL X-IronPort-AV:...
Cubans can enjoy a new freedom from this week - citizens of the communist island can now buy potatoes and peas without restriction. By Telegraph reporter and agency in Havana A Cuban couple returns home after buying at a...
The collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia's President Vladimir Putin famously once proclaimed, was "the biggest geopolitical catastrophe of the century". Putin was speaking as a former Soviet apparatchik, in language calculated...
