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U.S. contractor jailed in Cuba in court settlement with company
A State Department contractor jailed in Cuba has reached a financial settlement with the company that sent him to the island, according to court papers filed Thursday.(5/17/2013 7:33:44 AM) |
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Cuba-Jailed American Settles Lawsuit Against Employer
Alan Gross, a U.S. contractor jailed in Cuba since 2009, settled a negligence suit accusing his employer of mishandling risks associated with his mission in the Communist nation.(5/16/2013 6:45:52 PM) |
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U.S. contractor jailed in Cuba settles suit against employer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An American contractor imprisoned in Cuba has settled a lawsuit in which he accused the company he was working for when he was arrested and the U.S. government with failing to warn him about the risks of working on the communist-controlled island. Alan Gross and his wife Judy filed the $60 million lawsuit in November 2012 against the U.S. government and Development ...(5/17/2013 10:21:45 AM) |
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VIDEO: Cuba golf courses no longer 'elitist'
Five decades after Fidel Castro ordered Cuba's golf courses to be closed down because he considered them "elitist", the island's communist government has approved the construction of a luxury golf resort.(5/18/2013 1:14:52 PM) |
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First Coast Cuba: Our connections and should we go?
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The country of Cuba is only 90 miles from the Florida Keys but in many ways we are world's apart. Communism is still the law the land, trade sanctions still exist and diplomatic relations are strained.(5/17/2013 7:56:10 PM) |
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CI Students Head to Cuba for Rare Travel Course Experience
Twenty students will venture to Cuba this month for a rare travel experience offered as a CSU Channel Islands (CI) course. The nine-day trip gives students studying Spanish and Chicana/o Studies the chance to visit a country that has been closed to American tourists since the U.S. enacted its embargo against Cuba more than 50 years ago.(5/18/2013 3:21:32 AM) |
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Cuba golf project gets green light
A multi-million-dollar golf project gets the go-ahead in Cuba, where the game was dismissed as "bourgeois" after the communist revolution.(5/13/2013 6:00:35 AM) |
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Photos: Cuba Libre
Kevin Slack's Cuba is free of sexual categories, and free of many of the restraints and inhibitions of its neighbor to the north. read more(5/18/2013 8:18:06 AM) |
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Cuba launches challenge to Australian tobacco laws at WTO
GENEVA (Reuters) - Cuba has launched a legal challenge to Australia's tobacco packaging laws at the World Trade Organization, the Geneva-based trade body said in a statement on Monday. Cuba has never before launched WTO litigation. Its challenge follows similar complaints about Australia's tough tobacco packaging rules by Ukraine, Honduras and Dominican Republic. By taking the first step in a ...(5/6/2013 7:35:51 AM) |
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Cuba's Exam UPR Mechanismo of the UN Human Rights Council
On Wednesday, May 1st, 2013, Cuba presented its second report to the Universal Periodic Review mechanism of the UN Human Rights Council.(5/14/2013 7:09:43 PM) |
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