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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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191-2 UN vote condemning blockade; Cuba’s foreign minister calls U.S. ambassador ‘disrespectful’
As expected the General Assembly of the United Nations voted 191-2 condemning the United States embargo against Cuba. The only votes against were from the U.S. and Israel. Acknowledging…
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Finland to pay Cuban volleyball player $235,652 for wrongful imprisonment
The Finnish government has agreed to indemnify one of six Cuban volleyball players who were arrested and tried last year on charges of raping a Finnish woman. Luis Tomás Sosa Sierra,…
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Over 30 nations call for end to U.S. blockade against Cuba
A total of 12 heads of state from the Caribbean and Latin America, Africa and Asia demanded the lifting of the economic, commercial and financial siege on the Caribbean island on the…
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Anti-Cuban media overplay ‘acoustic attack’; Canada doesn’t assume a Cuban role
Maybe the news of the "acoustic attacks" will eventually rival the one published some years ago by the Weekly World News, with a headline saying 'Cuba Launches Shark Attack Against…
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The power of a good example
It's important for the president to set an example, so in 1979, I installed 32 solar panels on the roof of the White House. I made a public commitment in 1979 that by the year 2000 we…
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