Cuban ex-leader Fidel Castro in rare public appearance
Cubas former President Fidel Castro has appeared in public for the first time in nine months. Mr Castro, 87, attended the opening of an art studio in the capital, Havana, on Wednesday night. Pictures released on Thursday showed a frail-looking Mr.
Former France Telecom chief faces probe over wave of suicides at the company
The former chief of France Telecom was yesterday put under investigation over his alleged role in a wave of suicides by staff. Didier Lombard was head of the telecoms company when when more than 30 employees committed suicide in 2008 and 2009, .
Fidel Castro makes first comment on normalization with US
On the same day, Raul Castro confirmed that Cuba and the U.S. had agreed to resume diplomatic relations. He stressed Havanas abidance by ���a respectful dialogue based on the principle of sovereign equality.��� He called on Washington to lift the trade.
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Since the world soccer championship of 1978 where Holland ended just behind the world champion Argentina, Dutch football style has become famous, and Latin Americans nicknamed the Dutch team as naranja mec��nica, that is... Venezuelan President Hugo Ch��vez has held talks with former Cuban president Fidel Castro in Havana for what Cubas state-run media have described as an animated and warm meeting.. BBC sports news up to the minute.
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Euro plunges to three-month low and French stock market falls after Sarkozy is.
The markets remain uncertain about Socialist Mr Hollandes agenda in France - and how hard he will push to dilute a German-led European austerity drive. Last night the exuberant president-elect declared: Austerity can no longer be inevitable! In all.
Fidel Castros revolutionary lover dies at the age of 89
Natalia Revuelta, a Cuban socialite who emptied her bank account and sold her jewellery to support Fidel Castro when he was planning his insurgency, has died at the age of 89 in Havana. She caught the eye of Fidel Castro when he was a young .
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Frances Hollande meets Fidel Castro in Havana
French President Francois Hollande has met Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro on a historic trip to Havana. Mr Hollande is the. The French president was due to meet his current Cuban counterpart, Fidel Castros brother and successor Raul, later.
Russian president Dmitry Medvedev visits Cuba
. to be one of our key partners in Latin America, he said after hosting Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque in Russia this month. Relations are developing in a very dynamic way, he said, announcing a planned trip by Raul Castro to Russia in.
China and Cuba: No Longer Separated by a Common Ideology
Chinese foreign investment is often considered nonideological: Dictatorship or democracy, model state or pariah -- if a country has natural resources, China is an eager investor. In Latin America the characterization rings true, as China has curried.
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Yet she acknowledged to reporters there is still no word on the release of 53 Cuban political prisoners Havana promised would be freed following President Obamas announcement normalizing relations. Critics of the opening.. President Obama made history last month when he announced plans to ease the more than 50-year-old economic embargo on Cuba and restore diplomatic ties cut in 1961, two years after Fidel Castro seized power. Read the whole story.
Mr Cleggs voting system and the comedian whos exposed what a joke the euro is
For too long, EU leaders have refused to confront this mood of rebellion among ordinary people ��� which manifests itself not only in Italy, but also in Greece and increasingly in Spain and France. Francois Hollande, the French president, is ever more.
Freed Cuba dissidents praise detente, pledge push for change
Miguel Alberto Ulloa, a 25-year-old Havana man arrested in 2013 for painting anti-government slogans, said that he will stay at home until the charges against him expire in two months but that hes eager to go to the street, speak out, show that Im.
Action man Harry gets his own lookalike doll
Prince Harry may have been disappointed when his time in Afghanistan was cut short. But now the young Royal can play his very own war games at home with an Army doll that appears to be modelled on him. Marketed as a British Army Tank Commander, .
Russias Vladimir Putin tours Latin America ~ Nonsense Bay
Russias President Vladimir Putin, left, and Cubas President Raul Castro embrace at Revolution Palace. Mr Putin met Cuban President Raul Castro (right) and his brother, former leader Fidel Castro. Russian President��.
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Cuba on the Brink: Castro, the Missile Crisis and the Soviet Collapse compiled by James G. Blight, Allyn J. Bruce and David A. Welsh is an in-depth ���report��� on the Havana conference in 1992 hosted by Castro to discuss Cubas specific role during the Crisis. Cuba on... An agreement was reached during a secret meeting between Khrushchev and Fidel Castro in July and construction on a number of missile sites started later that summer... Barrett, David M. and Max Holland (2012).
George Cowling, the BBCs first ever weatherman, dies on Christmas Eve aged 89
Cowling joined the Met Office in 1939, at the start of World War II, stationed as a meteorological assistant with No. 4 Bomber Group, RAF Yorkshire, and went on to work as a forecaster in France, Belgium, Holland and Germany. He appeared on the BBC.
Air Algerie Plane Missing: Flight AH5017 Disappears From Radar
French President Francois Hollande said after an emergency meeting in Paris that the crew changed its flight path because of particularly difficult weather conditions. French Foreign Minister. Meanwhile, the threat from Islamic militants hasnt.
Will the U.S.-Cuban rapprochement affect the relationship.
In addition to clamping down on the US-financed dissent, Fidel Castro apparently felt that the previous economic opening was too much, too fast. Thus, he reversed decision regarding the still small Cuban private sector��.
EndrTimes: Frances Hollande arrives in Cuba on historic visit
Havana (AFP) - Francois Hollande arrived in Havana late Sunday, the first French president to visit Cuba in more than a century, cementing Pariss lead in the EU rapprochement with the communist island. Related Stories. French presidents. The French president is due to meet with his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro on Monday and his office has said he is available to meet with revolutionary icon Fidel Castro as well. However, Havana has not confirmed that a��.
Air Algerie Plane Likely Crashed Due To Bad Weather.
Frances president Francois Hollande says there are no survivors after Air Algerie flight crashed in Mali with 116 people on board. ��� Sky News.. Maybe the media that published the news needed some publicity, but here I am, Castro reportedly said.. Among the passengers of flight AH5017, there were 2 European officials with French nationality who were stationed in Ouagadougo and Mariela Castro, the niece of Fidel Castro, former head of state of Cuba.
Cuba athletes to keep foreign cash
But for now, the change is unlikely to affect those wanting to play in the US, as the countrys sanctions against Cuba prevent any funds going to its communist government, says the BBCs Sarah Rainsford, in Havana. The measures approved by the council.
Cubas health diplomacy in the age of Ebola
An inscription by Fidel Castro emblazoned on a wall of Cubas most prestigious medical school, the Escuela Latinoamericana de Medicina, sums up this ethos,. This will be a battle of solidarity against selfishness, it reads. Thus even prior to their.
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BBC News. Frances President Francois Hollande awaits Emirates Foreign Minister Sheik Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan for a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Jan. 16, 2014... HAVANA, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) ��� Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro met Sunday with visiting Argentine President Cristina Fernandez. Local media reported that Castro lunched with Fernandez, who is in Havana to attend the 2nd Summit of the Community of Latin ���
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The task force staff includes liaison officers from 13 nations: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, France, Mexico, the Netherlands, Peru, Spain and the United Kingdom. deputy secretary.. In an opinion article in state-run media last month, Fidel Castro said he resigned five years ago from all his official positions, including as head of the Communist Party, when intestinal bleeding nearly killed him in 2006. Even though it��.
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To make certain that devout Muslim viewers did not expose themselves to the sight of a filthy uncovered infidel whore, Saudi state TV blurred out her image in the news coverage of the momentous event. In other news, Five foreigners were... French president Fran��ois Hollande told the nations Jewish community on Tuesday that France is their ���homeland���, as he announced a set of plans to fight racism and anti-Semitism in France. President Hollande was giving a��.
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That may not be great for Taiwanese sovereignty, but its still good news for avoiding World War III. Direct flights between Taipei and Beijing played a huge. Fidel Castro, at age 88, transferred his powers to brother Ra��l in 2006 and is now retired. Ra��l, now age 83, was elected president in his. Chinese president Xi Jinping flew to Havana earlier this year, where he met former president Fidel Castro (pictured above). Its probably much more significant than, say, any��.
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Yoani S��nchez, Havana | 21May2014 I dont remember the title of the movie, nor the director, nor even if I saw it at a movie theater or on TV. I just remember. He lives in a luxury that most Cubans cant even imagine,��� Sanchez told el Nuevo Herald in his first interview after the book, The Secret Life of Fidel Castro, was published last week in France. His 325-page.. BBC NEWS: Wives of jailed Venezuelan opposition mayors win in polls ��� 26 May 2014. The wives of��.
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For the sake of accuracy, let me restate the obvious: The real ���Cuba issue��� is not, and never has been U.S. policy but rather the behavior of the murderous, anti-American dictatorship Fidel Castro has imposed on the Cuban people for more. worth more than $1 billion without compensation and -- more to the point -- two years after the beginning of the U.S. embargo, Fidel boasted: Within 10 years we will produce more milk than Holland and more cheese than France.