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Antonio Perdomo, who guided the Cuban women's volleyball team to Olympic gold medals in 1992 and 1996 and the bronze in 2004, has died of respiratory failure, according to a state television report. He was 66. Cuba's Institute of Sports told state TV that Perdomo died suddenly Monday morning in Havana.
You've got to be kidding me. We make it through five months of the hurricane season, including the historically active period of August and September, with no threats and very little worries and then, two and half weeks before the end of the season, Hurricane Ida pops up?
Hurricane Ida strengthened in the Caribbean off Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula on Sunday and was expected to move into the southeastern Gulf of Mexico later in the day, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
Tropical Storm Warnings Issued for Parts of Cuba, Mexico as Ida's Winds Approach Hurricane Level; Could Brush Gulf Coast
HAVANA (Agence France-Presse) -- Secret police agents abducted and beat the blogger Yoani Sánchez, whose online reports chronicle the dark side of life in Communist Cuba, on her way to a march for nonviolence, she said Saturday.
Tensions during the Cuban Missile Crisis during 1962 had the military on alert and one local veteran, Jim Gastel of Freeport, was serving in the Marine Corps at the time. He was not aware of how serious things were until years later and, even today, as he speaks of the historical crisis between the United States and Cuba, he looks back on the developments and said, “Things were much more tense ...
Hurricane Ida took aim at the United States and oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico on Monday after causing flooding and landslides that killed 124 people in El Salvador.
MIAMI, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- Hurricane Ida gained strength as it crossed the Gulf of Mexico Sunday and a hurricane warning was posted for part of the northern Gulf Coast, forecasters said.
BEIJING | China has executed nine men, including eight from the Muslim Uighur minority, for crimes committed during July riots that killed 200 people in the far western Xinjiang region. The men are the first to be put to death for the country's worst ethnic violence in decades. The nine were convicted of murder and other crimes committed during the unrest, which began July 5 when Uighurs in the ...
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Rays catcher Dioner Navarro had left elbow surgery in late October to stabilize an ulnar nerve but is expected to be ready for spring training, the team said Monday.
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As the door opened, a sensual aroma of citrus and garlic called my name. We were welcomed by two gentleman dressed in typical Cuban shirts, Guayaveras, who lead us to our table. They were as authentically charismatic and welcoming as the food.
MIAMI - Tropical storm warnings issued in Mexico, Cuba as Ida rapidly strengthens over Caribbean. NJ jurors convict Fla. man who claimed he was too fat to kill former son-in-law - A jury convicted a Florida man Friday of murdering his former son-in-law, rejecting the man's defense that he was too fat to have run up and down a flight of stairs to commit the crime and make a quick getaway.
Two lives lost There really are no words to express the horror and sadness that I feel over the senseless loss of two young lives in Miami Springs: Charlie Peel and Nick Colmenares. I have thought often that the residents of Miami-Dade County needed to take our communities back -- from the drug dealers, the criminals with guns who shoot and kill children, or whatever it is that is against ...
A late-season hurricane took aim at the United States and oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico on Monday after helping cause flooding and landslides that killed 124 people in El Salvador.
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