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US to Open Embassy in Cuba

Later this month, a U.S. Embassy will be opening in Havana, Cuba. And Cuba will be opening an embassy in the U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to make the announcement today.

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Pope visiting inmates, Independence Mall in Philadelphia

The Vatican released details of Francis' Sept. 26-27 visit on Tuesday, along with the official itinerary for the rest of his nine-day journey to the Americas.

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Cuba: Catholic church bans relatives of political prisoners from mass

Eight members of the Ladies in White activist group have attended Sunday Catholic Mass wearing white for years, sitting in the pews in silence unless participating in the Mass. No reports have surfaced of the women themselves-mothers, sisters, wives, and daughters of prisoners of conscience-disturbing the Mass.

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Cuban artist puts on hair competition to bolster black pride

A young Afro-Cuban performance artist transformed a Havana cultural center into the stage of a black hairstyle competition this weekend in a rare public commentary on racial beauty standards in Cuba, where prejudice remains widespread and largely undiscussed. Politics, particularly detente with the U.S., is a common subject matter at this year's international art fair.

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Cuba Is The First Country To Eliminate Mother-Baby HIV And Syphilis Transmission

The World Health Organization on Tuesday declared Cuba the first country in the world to eliminate the transmission of HIV and syphilis from mother to child. The WHO said in a statement that an international delegation that it and the Pan American Health Organization sent to Cuba in March determined the country met the criteria for the designation.

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Cubans wait for two hours to get this ice cream - so we had to try it for ourselves

Business Insider recently sent three reporters to Havana, Cuba to experience the city as tourists. On a Sunday afternoon, we noticed an extremely long line on a street corner near the Hotel Habana Libre.

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Pope to meet with homeless, prisoners, immigrants in US, Cuba

Pope Francis will meet with homeless people, immigrants and prisoners during his upcoming trip to Cuba and the United States. He'll also preside over a meeting about religious liberty - a major issue for the U.S. Catholic Church in the wake of the Supreme Court's gay marriage decision.

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Pope to address Congress, meet Raul Castro on trip to U.S., Cuba

Pope Francis will address a joint session of the U.S. Congress, the first pope to do so, on his much anticipated Sept. 19-27 trip to Cuba and the United States and meet Cuban president Raul Castro in Havana, the Vatican said on Tuesday.

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Hope and Change in Obama's Cuba: Over 200 peaceful dissidents...

Hablemos Press, Roberto de JesAos Guerra PerA©z, Havana, 29 June 2015 - Offices of the National Police, the Department of State Security, and other members of the Interior Ministry arrested at least 226 Cuban activists and dissidents this past Sunday, 28 June, 2015. Police operations were carried out in various provinces of the country to keep activists and opposition members from attending Mass.

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WPK Delegation Meets Raul Castro Ruz

A delegation of the Workers' Party of Korea led by Kang Sok Ju, member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the Central Committee of the WPK, on a visit to Cuba met and had a friendly talk with Raul Castro Ruz, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, president of the Council of State and president of the Council of Ministers of Cuba, at the building of the Council of State on June 27. Raul Castro Ruz said Cuba will adhere to the principled stand in the relations with the DPRK to the end and that the friendly relations between the two countries provided by Fidel Castro Ruz and President Kim Il Sung will invariably grow stronger generation after generation.

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Apple Vacations launching tours to Cuba this fall

Apple Vacations , one of the biggest tour operators in the U.S., is adding Cuba to its list of destinations this fall. According to the Newtown Square, Pa.-based company, tours will be offered as educational activities under the U.S. government's "People-to-People" program.

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Jeff Duncan: Liberate Cuba, Don't Enrich Castro Brothers

For far too long, the citizens of Cuba have known only suffering under an oppressive Castro regime. As a firm believer in the power of liberty and an open society, I feel strongly that any decision to shift U.S. policy toward Cuba must focus on liberating Cuban citizens, not enriching the Castro brothers.

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Contrasting viewpoints mark group exhibit at Meeting House Gallery

The group exhibit "Eye of the Beholder" at the Meeting House Gallery calls your attention to how these artists see the world around them. It's a suitably eye-catching strategy for a gallery exhibit done in conjunction with the Columbia Festival of the Arts.

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The road to closing Guantanamo is still being paved

A Guantanamo detainee, left, walks in a fenced-in exercise area as a guard patrols on the grounds of the maximum security prison at Camp 5, at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, in Cuba, Sept. 19, 2006.

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Rev. Jeremiah King founder of the African Baptist Church, Stockton, California

The founder of the African Baptist Church of Stockton final resting place found within Block 27-Stockton Rural Cemetery along with many of the earliest pioneers of African ancestry, both those formally born enslaved and free. During our Sesquicentennial Celebrations of Freedom, together we will end the separate and unequal treatment within Stockton Rural Cemetery and begin to officially identify, document and preserve the contributions by people of African ancestry as part of the broader effort as directed by Honorable Mervin M. Dymally.

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How The Battle Over Elian Gonzalez Helped Change U.S. Cuba Policy

Federal agents seized Elian Gonzalez, held in a closet by Donato Dalrymple, in Miami in April 2000. Dalrymple rescued the boy from the ocean after his mother drowned when they tried to escape Cuba.

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Cuba's corrupted Catholic church expels Ladies in White from...

The corrupted Catholic church in Cuba led by Cardinal Jaime Ortega, the nefarious shepherd who advances and protects his own interests by feeding his sheep to the Castro wolves, continues to align itself with evil. Eight ladies dressed in white were expelled from the Catholic parish in Aguada de Pasajeros in Cienfuegos by Father Tarciso.

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Eugenio Vald s Figueroa appointed as new Director and Chief Curator of CIFO

Ella Fontanals- Cisneros, founder and president of Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation , announced the appointment of Eugenio Valdes Figueroa as the new director and chief curator of the foundation. A noted curator, critic, and expert on Latin American and contemporary art, Valdes Figueroa most recently held the position of art and education director of Casa Daros, Daros-Latinoamerica in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Foreign investment plays key role in Cuba's tourism

Foreign investment is playing an important role in the development of Cuba's tourism industry, a senior Ministry of Tourism official said Monday. Tourism authorities hope to have 85,000 hotel rooms available by 2020, and 110,000 rooms by 2030, with most of the new investment centered in the areas of Cienfuegos-Trinidad, North Camaguey, Las Tunas and Holguin, said Jose Daniel Alonso, the ministry's business director.

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Cuban Five 'sacrifice' a gift to SA liberation

After having served 15 years in US jails, the Cuban Five received a rousing welcome at a symposium held at the University of the Western Cape on Monday night. With the crowd singing Struggle songs and waving ANC, South African and Cuban flags, the group made their way onto the stage.

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At the Havana Biennial, a Project Reflects on the Legacy of US Sanctions

Numerous articles and books have been written about the effect of the United States' embargo against Cuba, and as the two countries begin repairing diplomatic relations, there will likely be many more to come. Amid those academic treatises, French artist Didier Faustino offers a more poetic reflection at this year's Havana Biennial on how five decades of sanctions have impacted Cuban youth.

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Hemingway's Havana home to get $900,000 in US improvements

A mural of author Ernest Hemingway and Fidel Castro shaking hands covers a downtown parking lot in Havana, Cuba, Monday, June 22, 2015. Cuban architects, engineers and workmen will construct a two-story laboratory where thousands of photos, books and letters to and from Hemingway can be treated and preserved.

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Che Guevara Masoleum in Cuba racks up 4 million visitors-...

They smile in your face All the time they want to take your place The back stabbers... Che Guevara Masoleum Attracts 4 million Visitors . This week from Cuba's Granma : "According to Yaneski Gutierrez Fernandez, an expert employed by the complex, of the total number of visitors the monument has seen, 2,400,948 are foreign.

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The Cuban Renaissance: The Good, the Bad, and the Necessary

This is a guest post by Valerie Wirtschafter, a research associate with the Women and Foreign Policy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations. Since December 17, 2014, Raul Castro and Barack Obama's efforts to normalize U.S.-Cuban relations have become a constant fixture in the media.

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4 major issues for any American who wants to visit Cuba

Business Insider recently sent three reporters to Havana, Cuba, to see what it's like to visit the country as tourists. As the restoration of ties between the communist nation and the US seems to be imminent , people are itching to fly down to Havana.

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Miami's Calle Ocho hints at Havana that was, that isn't, and which might come to pass

Calle Ocho is a street of dreams. The Miami thoroughfare formally known as Southwest Eighth Street is the heart of Little Havana.

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Cuba plans to expand Internet access

Cuba says it's expanding Internet access by adding Wi-Fi capacity to dozens of state-run Internet centers and more than halving the cost that users pay for an hour online. The announcement published in the Thursday edition of the newspaper Juventud Rebelde is the first significant expansion of the Internet in Cuba since President Barack Obama said Dec. 17 that the communist government had told him it would give its people more access as part of a historic detente between the Cold War enemies.

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Cuban Five in historic SA visit

OR Tambo International Airport arrivals' hall erupted into cheers of "aluta continua" on Sunday, as the Cuban Five emerged to the jubilation of the massive crowds assembled to welcome the heroes of the Cuban struggle. "Thank God for their release, now I can rest in peace," cried Blessing Mahlaba, a former Umkhonto weSizwe commander who donned his military fatigues and waved the Cuban flag alongside dancing members of the Tripartite Alliance.

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Americaa s inaugural poet visits Cuba amid warming with US

The old woman looked suspiciously from her window as American poet Richard Blanco and a writer friend clambered out of a battered Soviet-era sedan and walked up to her front porch. “I'm looking for my grandparents' house,” Blanco explained, reciting the names of relatives who lived in what used to be this sugar boom town before the Cuban Revolution.

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Writer's Voice-Journey to the Forbidden Isle #3, by Tony Martin

When it became possible for residents of this country to travel to Cuba, Talkeetna resident Tony Martin wasted no time getting there. He wanted to share his experience, and knowledge gained, with others.

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Dr. and Mrs. DeRojas

Dr. and Mrs. Juan DeRojas recently celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary with their five children, Elena Eichorn, Beatriz Waskevich, Dr. Juan DeRojas, Maria Eliana Glenn, and Maria Luisa Moulton, along with their 16 grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, and close relatives from Miami, Fla. Dr. DeRojas, 90, is a retired general and vascular surgeon, chief of surgery of the VA Medical Center, Wilkes-Barre, and Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.

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