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(Photo: AP)Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega has been hospitalised with a suspected stroke
This May 1989 file photo shows General Manuel Antonio Noriega speaking to the press in Panama. A Paris court has convicted former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega for laundering drug money in France in the 1980s and ordered him to spend seven years in prison, Wednesday July 7, 2010. Noriega already spent 20 years in U.S. custody for drug trafficking and was extradited to France in April to stand trial on charges here....Full Story

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(Photo: WN / Marzena Jazowska)Crime soars in Brazil's Bahia state as police strike
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50 Years After Kennedy’s Decision, Cuban Embargo Endures
| HAVANA (AP) — The world is much changed since the early days of 1962, but one thing has remained constant: The United States’ economic embargo on Cuba, a near-total trade ban that turned 50 on Tuesday. Connect With Us on Twitter | Follow @nytimesworld for ...Full Story
Cell Phones Have Changed Our Lives
| Commemorative plaque in Havana for the first telephone conversation in Spanish, which occurred in that city on 31 October 1877. Photo: Yoani Sanchez | It weighs more than a "bad marriage," my grandmother used to say about that enormous black telephone in the neighbor'...Full Story
Indians, Panama gov't in deal to end road blockade
| PANAMA CITY (AP) — Members of an Indian tribe in Panama have agreed with the government to end a highway blockade in return for the release of demonstrators detained when police used tear gas to clear the road over the weekend. | Presidency minister Jimmy Papadimitr...Full Story
Jamaica government destroys 2,000 guns in furnace
| KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Roughly 2,000 firearms were melted down in a blazing furnace Tuesday as part of an effort designed to combat gun trafficking and corruption in Jamaica while reducing violent crime. | Police, government and U.N. officials destroyed pistols an...Full Story
Tiny primate 'talks' in ultrasound
| One of the world's smallest primates, the Philippine tarsier, communicates in a range of ultrasound inaudible to predator and prey alike, according to a study published on Wednesday. | No bigger than a man's hand, Tarsius syrichta can hear and emit sounds at a frequen...Full Story
Permanent jobs rise for first time in 4 months
| LONDON (Reuters) - British employers expanded their permanent workforce for the first time in four months in January, a survey of recruitment agencies said on Wednesday, adding to signs that the economy may be improving. | The Recruitment and Employment Confederation ...Full Story
No Cigar: Economic Embargo on Cuba Turns 50
Havana. When it started, American teenagers were doing “The Twist.” The United States had yet to put a man into orbit around the Earth. And a first-class US postage stamp cost four cents. | The world is much changed since the early days of 1962, but one thing has re...Full Story
Mali out to defy history against Drogba and company
| Mali will have to defy history if they are to overcome the mighty Ivory Coast in Wednesday's Africa Cup of Nations semi-final. | The Ivorians have met Mali 21 times, winning 14 with the Eagles emerging victorious just the once, in a friendly back in 1995. | Twice thei...Full Story
Argentine president to UK PM: Give peace a chance
| BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — President Cristina Fernandez said Tuesday that Argentina will formally complain to the U.N. Security Council that Britain has created a serious security risk by sending one of its most modern warships to the disputed Falkland Islands. ...Full Story
Heat on Ghana as Zambia plot ambush
| The heat will be on Ghana and off Zambia when they clash in this steamy port city on Wednesday with a place in the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations final at stake. | "Playing in the final is the least everyone expects from us," admitted Serb coach Goran Stevanovic ahead of ...Full Story
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Snow chaos ruins a Roman holiday, plus a Cuban query
The Independent | A. From the airport and the airline, nothing. BAA, which owns Stansted, makes no promises about maximum waits for security. While it has targets to achieve on queuing times, any penalties for failing to meet them are paid to the Civil Aviation Auth...
Cubans say U.S. embargo a failure at 50
The Star | HAVANA (Reuters) - The 50th anniversary of the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba on Tuesday was met with little fanfare on the island, where Cubans said it was a failed policy that had succeeded only in making their lives more difficult. A woman runs...
Rene Wadlow: Economic Sanctions
Scoop Wednesday, 8 February 2012, 12:57 pm | Press Release: Rene Wadlow | 'Economic Sanctions: Balancing Principles, National Interests and the Advancement of World Law' | Rene Wadlow *– TRANSCEND Media Service | The ongoing UN Security Council disc...
Cubans say U.S. embargo a failure at 50
Yahoo Daily News | HAVANA (Reuters) - The 50th anniversary of the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba on Tuesday was met with little fanfare on the island, where Cubans said it was a failed policy that had succeeded only in making their lives more difficult. | They said ...
'Second Libya' would stretch Britain: lawmakers
Yahoo Daily News | Britain's armed forces, strained by steep cuts in defence spending, would struggle to mount another military operation on the scale of the Libya intervention, lawmakers said on Wednesday. | The British government would face "significantly greater c...
Africa losing out on billions in trade: World Bank
Yahoo Daily News | Africa is losing out on billions of dollars in potential earnings every year because of high trade barriers on the continent, the World Bank said Tuesday. | "It is easier for Africa to trade with the rest of the world than with itself," the World B...
Karat invokes Castro to play down Jesus row
Indian Express | CPM general secretary Prakash Karat on Tuesday borrowed the words of Cuban leader Fidel Castro to defend the party stand that Jesus was revolutionary and there was nothing wrong in using his portrait at an exhibition to mark the party state confere...
Tue 7 Feb 2012
No cigar: Economic embargo on Cuba turns 50
STL Today | When it started, American teenagers were doing "The Twist." The United States had yet to put a man into orbit around the Earth. And a first-class U.S. postage stamp cost 4 cents. | The world is much changed since the early days of 1962, but one thi...
Attacks in Syria's Homs resume after Russian peace
Yahoo Daily News | AMMAN (Reuters) - Armored forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad thrust deeper into the central city of Homs on Wednesday, firing rockets and mortar rounds to subdue opposition districts, activists said, a day after Russia said Assad wants peace...
After 50 years, Cuba trade ban has failed to topple Castros
Seattle Times | HAVANA - When it started, American teenagers were doing "The Twist." The United States had yet to put a man into orbit around the Earth. And a first-class U.S. postage stamp cost 4 cents. | The world is much changed since the early days of 1962, bu...
Part 2: "Who Killed Che? How the CIA Got Away with Murder": New Book Ties Johnson Admin to Che Death
Democracy Now | Michael Ratner and Michael Steven Smith are the co-authors of a new book about the U.S. role in the killing of Cuban revolutionary, Ernesto "Che" Guevara. Born in Argentina in 1928, Che rose to international prominence as one of the key l...
Marlins courting Cuban slugger Yoenis Cespedes in his two-day visit to Miami
Palm Beach Post | Cuban prospect Yoenis Cespedes will get to walk on the field during a tour of Marlins Park today. The Marlins hope it's the first of many trips Cespedes makes to their new ballpark. | Cespedes arrived in Miami late Tuesday afternoon after receiving...
MLB Notes: Cuban star to meet with Marlins
Toronto Sun | Coveted free-agent outfielder Yoenis Cespedes has moved a step closer to the major leagues, obtaining a visitor's visa to travel to the U.S., and has a meeting Wednesday with the Miami Marlins, MLB.com reported Tuesday. | Cespedes, a 26-year-old Cu...
Cuban migrants at Guantánamo base ‘broke rules,’ face restrictions
The Miami Herald | Nearly three dozen Cuban asylum seekers were confined to the Leeward side of the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Tuesday, no longer able to send packages to family across the minefield in a security crackdown at the U.S. migrant center at the bas...
Prime minister: Haiti donor aid needs revision
The Miami Herald | WASHINGTON -- Two years after a massive earthquake, Haiti is even more vulnerable to natural catastrophes and still does not have the capacity to manage even small events, Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille said Tuesday. | Conille was making the ...
Cubans say U.S. embargo a failure at 50
Hartford Courant | HAVANA (Reuters) - The 50th anniversary of the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba on Tuesday was met with little fanfare on the island, where Cubans said it was a failed policy that had succeeded only in making their lives more difficult. | They said ...
Economic embargo on Cuba turns 50
North Jersey | HAVANA — When it started, American teenagers were doing "The Twist." The United States had yet to put a man into orbit around the Earth. And a first-class U.S. postage stamp cost 4 cents. JAVIER GALEANO / ASSOCIATED PRESS People walk past the...
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