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Cuba, Vietnam agree to enhance bilateral cooperation

Cuba and Vietnam on Wednesday signed an agreement to boost cooperation in various areas, local media reported.

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Cuba sends 461 doctors, nurses to help fight Ebola in West Africa

Cuba will send a total of 461 doctors and nurses to West Africa to help fight the Ebola epidemic, local media reported Friday.

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Cuba to hold int'l trade fair to attract foreign investment

Cuba will hold the 32nd International Trade Fair of Havana (FIHAV 2014) on Nov. 2-8 to attract foreign investment in its priority economic sectors, an official said here Tuesday.

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Cuba sends six tons of humanitarian aid to Gaza

​Cuba sent six tons of humanitarian aid to the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, following Israel's latest devastating military offensive there, state daily Granma reported Thursday.

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Cuba presents latest case to UN for lifting U.S.-led embargo

Cuba Tuesday presented its latest report to the United Nations General Assembly, calling for an end to the U.S.-led economic embargo.

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Cuba's central bank takes steps against money laundering

​Cuba's central bank has adopted measures against money laundering after the passage of a new foreign investment law aimed at bringing more capital from abroad, local media said Thursday.

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Wetlands cover nearly one tenth of Cuba

Wetlands, including inland and coastal swampland, occupied 10,410 square km of land area, or 9.3 percent of Cuba, the Cuban News Agency (ACN) reported Monday.

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Harvest season of tobacco comes in Cuba

Harvest season of tobacco comes in Cuba

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President Xi spearheads "spicy wood"

President Xi Jinping might be leading another food craze among Chinese diners. Moringa, an edible plant, whose Chinese name literally means "spicy wood," is a token of the ever-lasting friendship between China and Cuba under a Sino-Cuban joint research program.

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Cuba to issue sovereign funds to finance deficit

Cuba will start issuing sovereign wealth funds in 2014 to finance the debt generated by the budgetary deficit, with an annual interest rate of 2.5 percent and expiring in a 20-year term, a senior official announced here Saturday.

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Vietnam attaches importance to relations and co-op with Cuba: PM

Vietnam always attaches importance to relations, and tries its utmost to further developing bilateral cooperation with Cuba, said Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung when meeting with Cuban Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment Rodrigo Malmierca Diaz here on Wednesday.

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Cuban leader Raul Castro reelected to second term

Cuba's National Assembly of People' s Power Sunday reelected Cuban leader Raul Castro Ruz to a second five-year term.

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Chavez "much better, recovering": Fidel Castro

Venezuela's ailing President Hugo Chavez is recovering well from a cancer operation he underwent last December in Havana, media sources reported Monday, quoting Cuban former leader Fidel Castro.

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Venezuela's Chavez addresses CELAC summit by letter

Venezuela's Vice President Nicolas Maduro Monday read a letter from ailing President Hugo Chavez to leaders attending the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) Summit held in Chile's capital Santiago.

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Chavez aware of complex condition: Venezuelan VP

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is fully aware of the complexity of his condition three weeks after cancer surgery in Cuba, Vice President Nicolas Maduro said on Tuesday.

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Chavez's health remains “delicate”: Venezuelan VP

Maduro said that these new complications were caused by respiratory infection that afflicts Chavez for at least two days. He said he had the opportunity to talk to the president to update the country's situation for him listened to his instructions

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Venezuela: Chavez back at the helm

Venezuelan President is back at the helm of the country and has begun giving instructions and leading his administration.