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Raul Castro retires as Cuban president, outlines future
World | Apr 20, 2018, 07:21 AM ISTCastro's 90-minute valedictory speech offered his first clear vision for the nation's future power structure under new President Miguel Mario Diaz-Canel Bermudez.
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Miguel Mario Diaz-Canel replaces Raul Castro as Cuba president
World | Apr 19, 2018, 07:25 PM ISTThe National Assembly announced that Miguel Mario Diaz-Canel Bermudez had been approved as the sole candidate for president. The 86-year-old Castro will remain head of the Communist Party
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Cuba will ban naming of monuments after Fidel Castro, says brother Raul
World | Dec 04, 2016, 09:26 AM ISTCuban President Raul Castro announced on that his government would honour the wishes of his brother Fidel and would prohibit the naming of streets and monuments after him and bar the construction of statues of him.
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Barack Obama, Raul Castro vow to improve US-Cuba relations
World | Mar 22, 2016, 08:34 AM ISTHavana - US President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro vowed on Mondey to set aside the deep divisions that still exist between the two countries. The two leaders, in a joint news conference,
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In a historic visit, Obama arrives in Cuba; aims to push acrimony into past
World | Mar 21, 2016, 07:06 AM ISTStepping into history, President Barack Obama opened an extraordinary visit to Cuba today, eager to push decades of acrimony deeper into the past and forge irreversible ties with America's former adversary. With this visit, Obama has also become the
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Cuba's reopened embassy in US to fly original vintage flag
World | Jul 20, 2015, 11:41 AM ISTHavana (Washington) : The Cuban government is preparing to reopen its embassy in Washingtonon Monday with the original Cuban flag that was taken down in 1961, when the two nations cut off ties.In a move heavy with
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Cuba-US talks going well: Raul Castro
World | May 13, 2015, 07:42 AM ISTHavana: Cuban President Raul Castro said that negotiations with the US to restore formal relationship "are going well" and "at our own pace".Castro spoke to reporters on Tuesday at Havana's international airport after seeing off
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Barack Obama-Raul Castro meeting overshadows anti-US line at summit
World | Apr 12, 2015, 09:53 AM ISTPanama City: As usual when Latin America leftist leaders get together with U.S. officials, there were plenty of swipes at the U.S. during the seventh Summit of the Americas.From 19th century territorial raids on Mexico
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US President Obama and his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro to meet today
World | Apr 11, 2015, 12:21 PM ISTPanama City: US President Barack Obama and his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro are slated to meet on Saturday on the sidelines of the ongoing seventh Organisation of American States (OAS) Summit, held in Panama City.The
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Cuba will not accept any interference from the United States on internal affairs, warns President Raul Castro
World | Jan 29, 2015, 11:22 AM ISTSan Jose: Cuban President Raul Castro Wednesday warned United States on interfering in its internal affairs. Castro said, “Meddling in its internal affairs would make rapprochement between the two countries “meaningless.”“Everything appears to indicate that
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Cuba mulls economy, graft in Parliament session
World | Jul 06, 2014, 06:57 AM ISTHavana, Cuba: Cuban parliamentarians met Saturday in one of their twice-annual sessions, with the country's limping economy and the 2014 budget foremost on the agenda.Government-run website Cubadebate published pictures of President Raul Castro presiding over