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Deseret News - Tue Dec 15, 12:17 am ET

MIAMI — Cuba is counterattacking its cyber-foes with government backers calling them mercenaries and CIA agents, but...

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Cigars ‘beautiful pieces of nature’ for Swedish Match chief
Richmond Times-Dispatch - Mon Dec 14, 12:20 am ET
Lennart Freeman hasn’t lost his Swedish accent. Nor has he lost his flair for cooking Swedish meatballs and Swedish ham and a dish called Jansson’s Temptation.
"Voyage Of The Damned" Survivors Gather In S. Fla.
CBS4 Miami - Mon Dec 14, 12:09 am ET
Nearly three dozen survivors of an ill-fated voyage to the United States seventy years ago have gathered in Miami Beach to mark the tragic anniversary. In May 1939, 930 Jewish refugees set sail aboard the SS. St. Louis to escape persecution in Germany. The group was destined for Cuba where they had valid visas; but once they arrived they were not allowed to disembark.
Canton crash victim shows upgraded condition
Peoria Journal Star - Mon Dec 14, 12:06 am ET
The condition of a Cuba woman injured in a single-vehicle crash Thursday evening in Canton has been upgraded to serious condition, a nursing supervisor confirmed Sunday.
Iraq: No time to act on U.S. tip on blasts
USA Today - Sun Dec 13, 11:39 pm ET
The U.S. warned of an attack hours before Tuesday's deadly blasts in Baghdad, but the tip came too late to act on, Iraq security officials said.
Haus der Kunst Announces Exhibition of Sculptural Works and Installations
Art Daily - Sun Dec 13, 10:30 pm ET
Sung Hwan Kim, Dog Video, 2006. Film still. MUNICH.- Every day events that have the potential to become part of history take place. But who decides which event fulfils the potential to enter the historical canon? Whose history is told and by whom?
Survivors of 'Voyage of the Damned' recall tragic trip
Miami Herald - Sun Dec 13, 10:29 pm ET
Before the six million, there were the 937. They were German Jews aboard the transatlantic liner MS St. Louis seeking safe haven from the Nazis in Havana and Miami four months before World War II broke out.
Raul Castro: Copenhagen a failure before it starts
FOX 11 Tucson - Sun Dec 13, 10:18 pm ET
HAVANA (AP) — Raul Castro on Sunday declared the global climate summit in Copenhagen a failure from the start and urged leftist Latin American leaders to devise their own plan on how to cope with climate change.
Cuba Detains American Contractor
The Inquisitr - Sun Dec 13, 7:55 pm ET
Miami, FL (AHN) – A contractor working with the U.S. Agency for International Development was arrested in Cuba, the State Department said this weekend. The unidentified worker is accused of giving cell phones and laptops to Cuban activists, the Washington Post reported. The contractor was arrested on Dec. 5, and U.S. authorities are trying to get in [...]
Phila. to appoint interim BRT director today
The Philadelphia Inquirer - Sun Dec 13, 7:02 pm ET
A lot of nasty things can happen at the bottom of a pile of football linemen. Eye gouging. Spitting. Sucker punches, and so on. All of which should only have helped prepare former football player Richard Negrin, a Philadelphia lawyer, for the beatings he is bound to take in his new job as interim executive director of the Board of Revision of Taxes.
Chavez rejects Clinton's 'threats' on Iran ties
AFP via Yahoo! News - Sun Dec 13, 6:16 pm ET
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez rejected Sunday the top US diplomat's "threats" on the consequences of Latin American ties with Iran, blasting Hillary Clinton's remarks as an "imperial offensive."
Senate backs move to boost farm trade with Cuba
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Sun Dec 13, 5:27 pm ET
The Senate approved a provision on Sunday to facilitate cash sales of U.S. farm goods to Cuba, overturning restrictions by former President George W. Bush's administration, a senator said.
U.S. Pro-Democracy Firm Worker Detained in Cuba
Fox News - Sun Dec 13, 3:21 pm ET
A Washington-area firm issued a statement Sunday confirming that one of its subcontractors is behind bars in Cuba, an arrest that may have resulted from possibly distributing electronics to activist Cubans to communicate with one another on the isolated island nation.
Local Leads: Contractor Held In Cuba and Chocolate Lawsuit
NBC Washington - Sun Dec 13, 11:26 am ET
Need a quick look at D.C.-area news? Local Leads is your one-stop shop. Read it. Use it. Love it.
SS St. Louis Survivors Reunite In S. Florida
Local 10 Miami - Sun Dec 13, 11:21 am ET
33 survivors of an ill-fated voyage to the U.S. during the holocaust gather in Miami Beach.
Fear Not, For Lo, I Bring You Good News
DCist - Sun Dec 13, 11:06 am ET
Are you drowning in a sea of negativity, the kind that seems to, at times, swallow this city up like a whale does krill? Yeah, I hear you. But, there are good stories out there, I swear. For instance: David C. Lipscomb's story in the Washington Times about how Trinidad has made the transition from a place more known for random gunfights and vehicle checkpoints to a neighborhood united, working ...