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JICA opens office in Cuba
The Japan International Cooperation Agency, or JICA, has opened an office in Havana to step-up support of the country's infrastructure development. About 200 people, including a…
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It was a trade war that helped cause the Great Depression
Trade wars are lose-lose propositions. The Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930 resulted in a trade war that helped plunge the world into the Great Depression. And Trump’s “easy to win” remedy…
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Hemispheric affairs post, long vacant, may soon be filled
Kimberly Breier will be appointed Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, "multiple sources" have told The Global Americans, a research and analysis website…
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Cuban envoy to Moscow will end his mission New Year’s Day
Emilio Ratmir Lozada García will leave his post in Moscow as Cuba's ambassador to Russia and return to Cuba on Jan. 1, 2018, after a four-year assignment in the Russian capital. His…
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Experts: Trump’s snub of Cuba brings Russia into U.S. backyard
An article in the British daily The Independent has buoyed Russian politologists, businessmen and politicians for its outlook on Russo-Cuban relations. Jason Marczak, director of the…
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New tax law supercharges existing inequality trends
The 2018 World Inequality Report shows in rich and convincing detail why the new Trump-Republican tax law makes a bad situation worse. It will increase economic inequality significantly…
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Cuba, Serbia presidents vow to increase political, economic ties
Cuban president Raúl Castro received his Serbian counterpart, Aleksandar Vučić, on Friday agreed to increase economic and commercial ties between both countries and highlighted the…
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Russia offers to mediate in U.S.-North Korea rift; Cuba already has
Russia is ready to mediate in the negotiations between the U.S. and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the first deputy chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs,…
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Climate change threatens 1 in 4 natural heritage sites
A report released during the U.N. climate talks in Bonn, Germany, warns that climate change imperils one in four natural World Heritage sites — nearly double the number from just three…
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Cuba seeks to increase trade, join China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Cuba seeks to increase trade with China and join the Belt and Road Initiative as a possible "regional node" for this plan to spread throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, the…
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