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High-ranking Communist Party officials meet in China
A delegation of the Cuban Communist Party led by Salvador Valdés Mesa met Tuesday in Beijing with Liu Yunshan, one of the seven members of the Standing Committee of the Communist Party…
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Progressives make gains in Spanish elections; conservatives lose majority
Preliminary results from Spain’s regional elections on Sunday showed big gains for upstart leftist and center-right parties and the conservatives losing their majority.
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Cuba, China and the U.S. in geopolitical context
Cuba's retraction of an invitation to China to host its warships and conduct joint exercises in the Caribbean is a prime example of geopolitics at work.
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Francis: At last, a transformational pope
Pope Francis hasn't taken on small or short-lived problems either, nor has he avoided irritating elements of the Catholic fold. Take Cuba. For more than five decades U.S. policy against…
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Italy sees ‘huge potential’ in privatized trade with Cuba
Italy's deputy Foreign Minister Mario Giro and Vice Minister for Economic Development Carlo Calenda will head a trade mission to Cuba, July 6-8, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi announced in…
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‘Hit and run’
It is the abandonment of the truth, justice and life itself, my father's and my family's. With their acts, they abandon us every day. And we're going to remind them -- every day.
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Vatican officially recognizes Palestine, while Israel fumes
“Concealing or denying evil is like allowing a wound to keep bleeding without bandaging it,” said the pontiff.
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3 views from Russia on Lourdes and the U.S.
Experts on defense issues and Latin America react to Russian legislator Dmitri Gorovtsov's statement last week that the Duma would not rule out the reopening of an…
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Hats off to the patron saint and the ‘ferry’ godfather of normalization
The Vatican has offered little explanation for this Sunday's meeting between President Raul Castro and Pope Francis, apart from Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi's comment that it was…
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World leaders celebrate victory over fascism in Moscow
Russia today commemorated the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet people over German Nazism. In attendance were world leaders including Presidents Raúl Castro and Nicolas…
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