| Wed 8 Feb 2012 |
Snow chaos ruins a Roman holiday, plus a Cuban query
The Independent | A. From the airport and the airline, nothing. BAA, which owns Stansted, makes no promises about maximum waits for security. While it has targets to achieve on queuing times, any penalties for failing to meet them are paid to the Civil Aviation Auth... |
Cubans say U.S. embargo a failure at 50
The Star | HAVANA (Reuters) - The 50th anniversary of the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba on Tuesday was met with little fanfare on the island, where Cubans said it was a failed policy that had succeeded only in making their lives more difficult. A woman runs... |
Rene Wadlow: Economic Sanctions
Scoop Wednesday, 8 February 2012, 12:57 pm | Press Release: Rene Wadlow | 'Economic Sanctions: Balancing Principles, National Interests and the Advancement of World Law' | Rene Wadlow *– TRANSCEND Media Service | The ongoing UN Security Council disc... |
Cubans say U.S. embargo a failure at 50
Yahoo Daily News | HAVANA (Reuters) - The 50th anniversary of the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba on Tuesday was met with little fanfare on the island, where Cubans said it was a failed policy that had succeeded only in making their lives more difficult. | They said ... |
'Second Libya' would stretch Britain: lawmakers
Yahoo Daily News | Britain's armed forces, strained by steep cuts in defence spending, would struggle to mount another military operation on the scale of the Libya intervention, lawmakers said on Wednesday. | The British government would face "significantly greater c... |
Africa losing out on billions in trade: World Bank
Yahoo Daily News | Africa is losing out on billions of dollars in potential earnings every year because of high trade barriers on the continent, the World Bank said Tuesday. | "It is easier for Africa to trade with the rest of the world than with itself," the World B... |
Karat invokes Castro to play down Jesus row
Indian Express | CPM general secretary Prakash Karat on Tuesday borrowed the words of Cuban leader Fidel Castro to defend the party stand that Jesus was revolutionary and there was nothing wrong in using his portrait at an exhibition to mark the party state confere... |
| Tue 7 Feb 2012 |
No cigar: Economic embargo on Cuba turns 50
STL Today | When it started, American teenagers were doing "The Twist." The United States had yet to put a man into orbit around the Earth. And a first-class U.S. postage stamp cost 4 cents. | The world is much changed since the early days of 1962, but one thi... |
Attacks in Syria's Homs resume after Russian peace
Yahoo Daily News | AMMAN (Reuters) - Armored forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad thrust deeper into the central city of Homs on Wednesday, firing rockets and mortar rounds to subdue opposition districts, activists said, a day after Russia said Assad wants peace... |
After 50 years, Cuba trade ban has failed to topple Castros
Seattle Times | HAVANA - When it started, American teenagers were doing "The Twist." The United States had yet to put a man into orbit around the Earth. And a first-class U.S. postage stamp cost 4 cents. | The world is much changed since the early days of 1962, bu... |
Part 2: "Who Killed Che? How the CIA Got Away with Murder": New Book Ties Johnson Admin to Che Death
Democracy Now | Michael Ratner and Michael Steven Smith are the co-authors of a new book about the U.S. role in the killing of Cuban revolutionary, Ernesto "Che" Guevara. Born in Argentina in 1928, Che rose to international prominence as one of the key l... |
Marlins courting Cuban slugger Yoenis Cespedes in his two-day visit to Miami
Palm Beach Post | Cuban prospect Yoenis Cespedes will get to walk on the field during a tour of Marlins Park today. The Marlins hope it's the first of many trips Cespedes makes to their new ballpark. | Cespedes arrived in Miami late Tuesday afternoon after receiving... |
MLB Notes: Cuban star to meet with Marlins
Toronto Sun | Coveted free-agent outfielder Yoenis Cespedes has moved a step closer to the major leagues, obtaining a visitor's visa to travel to the U.S., and has a meeting Wednesday with the Miami Marlins, MLB.com reported Tuesday. | Cespedes, a 26-year-old Cu... |
Cuban migrants at Guantánamo base ‘broke rules,’ face restrictions
The Miami Herald | Nearly three dozen Cuban asylum seekers were confined to the Leeward side of the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Tuesday, no longer able to send packages to family across the minefield in a security crackdown at the U.S. migrant center at the bas... |
Prime minister: Haiti donor aid needs revision
The Miami Herald | WASHINGTON -- Two years after a massive earthquake, Haiti is even more vulnerable to natural catastrophes and still does not have the capacity to manage even small events, Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille said Tuesday. | Conille was making the ... |
Cubans say U.S. embargo a failure at 50
Hartford Courant | HAVANA (Reuters) - The 50th anniversary of the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba on Tuesday was met with little fanfare on the island, where Cubans said it was a failed policy that had succeeded only in making their lives more difficult. | They said ... |
Economic embargo on Cuba turns 50
North Jersey | HAVANA — When it started, American teenagers were doing "The Twist." The United States had yet to put a man into orbit around the Earth. And a first-class U.S. postage stamp cost 4 cents. JAVIER GALEANO / ASSOCIATED PRESS People walk past the... |
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