Tag: cuba
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Maradona accepts paternity of three more children in Cuba
Argentina football legend Diego Maradona is to acknowledge paternity of three Cuban children, his lawyer says. This means the 58-year-old World Cup winner, who once denied any children other than with his former wife, is now the official father of eight children. Maradona will travel to Havana to take paternity tests and publicly recognise the…
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Cuba plans to introduce right to private property into Constitution
The Republic of Cuba, one of the world’s last remaining communist countries, is set to enact reforms, expected to introduce recognition of the need for private property into the charter. TheNewsGuru reports the Cuban Parliament on Wednesday started discussing a planned constitutional reform to introduce right to private property ownership into constitution. Parliamentary commissions met…
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102 out of 105 passengers on board Cuba flight die as plane crashes
No fewer than 102 persons lost their lives on Friday after a Boeing 737 plane crashed shortly after taking off from Havana’s main airport in Cuba. There were at least three possible survivors among the 105 passengers as well as nine crew, Cuban state-run media reported, adding that there were five children on board. According…
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Cuba condemns Pence’s “tyranny” remark
Cuba has condemned U.S. Vice President Mike Pence’s remark describing the governments of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua as a “dark cloud of tyranny” that weighed heavily on their citizens, calling it a continuation of a colonial doctrine. In a statement to local television, Carlos De Cossio, director for U.S. affairs at the Cuban Foreign Ministry,…
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BREAKING: Cuba swears-in Miguel Diaz-Canel as president to replace Castro
Nearly sixty years of rule by the Castro brothers, Cuba swears-in Miguel Diaz-Canel to replace Raul Castro as president on Thursday. Cuban Communist Party stalwart, Diaz-Canel replaced Castro, to bring a new chapter for the island and also aimed at preserving Cuban socialism. The National Assembly swore in Diaz-Canel, with 603 out of 604 lawmakers…
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Trump turns back on a future with Cuba
By Jesse Jackson In his perverse fixation on overturning all things Barack Obama, President Donald Trump now turns his attention to Cuba, the island located 90 miles off our shore. Reports are that the president plans to travel to Florida to announce that he will reverse Obama’s opening to Cuba, reinstate restrictions on the right…
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Google launches servers in Cuba to speed up YouTube
Google has launched its servers in Cuba, meaning the country will now store Google contents locally, which will see Cubans who use Google services in the country notice contents load much faster. Google and the state-run telecom company Etecsa inked a deal in December to provide Cuban users access to the Google Global Cache (GGC).…
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Cuba, Russia improve cooperation, sign new pacts
Cuba and Russia on Thursday has signed seven cooperation pacts covering technology, military, industry, aviation, medical equipment, and railroad transportation. The pacts were signed during a visit by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin. Cuba-Russia cooperation is in its best shape in over two decades thanks to both sides’ political willingness to deepen their ties,…