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Cuba claims as own weapons found on North Korea ship

Cuba claimed its own the arms found on board a North Korean ship that Panama impounded, saying the missile system parts were to be repaired and returned.

Cuba’s Raul Castro backs asylum offers for Snowden

Raul Castro stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Latin American countries that have expressed a willingness to take in NSA leaker Edward Snowden, but made no apparent reference to whether Cuba would be willing to offer him refuge or safe passage.

Oz woman to swim from Cuba to US

With a team of scientists on her side, Australian Chloe McCardel set out to become the first person to make the 166-km swim between Cuba and the Florida Keys without a shark cage to protect her.

Power failure plunges western Cuba into darkness

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A power outage caused by a transmission failure left a significant part of Cuba, including the capital, in the dark on late Sunday.

The state-run Electric Union company said the blackout affected 10

Cuban dissident Paya killed in car accident

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Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya, a winner of the Sakharov human rights prize who challenged the island's communist regime for decades, died on Sunday in a car accident, the government and a priest said.

Cuba poised to pass gay marriage law: Castro daughter

Famed sexologist Mariela Castro, daughter of the Cuban president, said on Thursday she expected her country this year will pass a same-sex marriage law, although she said Cuba still needs to be "more

‘What does a pope do?’ Fidel Castro asks Benedict

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Pope Benedict and Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, both octogenarians, joked about their age in a brief meeting on Wednesday and then Castro popped the question: so what do you do?

The two wo

Pope to meet Fidel Castro on final day of Cuba visit

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Pope Benedict XVI was to meet Fidel Castro and hold a huge outdoor mass in Havana on Wednesday as he wraps up a three-day visit in which he called for a more 'open society' on the Communist-run island

No political reforms planned in Cuba: Vice president

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Cuba's vice president declared on Tuesday that there would be ‘no political reforms’ introduced on the communist island, despite a call one day earlier from Pope Benedict XVI for greater openness duri

Fidel Castro presents his memoirs – ‘Time Guerrilla’

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Cuban leader Fidel Castro presented two volumes of his memoir entitled ‘Time Guerrilla’ in a ceremony that marked his first public appearance since last April, Cuban media reported.

The memoirs trace

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