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Deseret News - Tue Dec 15, 12:17 am ETMIAMI — Cuba is counterattacking its cyber-foes with government backers calling them mercenaries and CIA agents, but...
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MIAMI — Cuba is counterattacking its cyber-foes with government backers calling them mercenaries and CIA agents, but...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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 [...]
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.
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."
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.
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.
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33 survivors of an ill-fated voyage to the U.S. during the holocaust gather in Miami Beach.
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 ...