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03.03.2009, 12:07
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has moved to accelerate Cuba’s reintegration into the world community. He’s sent the well-known Socialist Jack Lang on a goodwill visit to Cuban President Raoul Castro.
26.02.2009, 17:37
On Wednesday, the US Congress has approved a spending bill, which will reduce restrictions against Cuba that were imposed by the former Bush administration.
29.01.2009, 17:15
Raul Castro is in Moscow for his first official visit as Cuban leader. The two countries were close during the Soviet era, but relations turned sour in the mid-eighties.
09.09.2009, 17:50
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9/11 was the day steel-framed buildings fell like sandcastles, the law of physics worked in reverse and the United States Air Force went missing in action. So what is the real story?
24.03.2009, 13:27
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It's been ten years since NATO began bombing the former Yugoslavia. New York Resident Lori Harfenist tries to find where public opinion stands on the streets of the city.
10.05.2010, 01:23
Dimitri Tiomkin is a name not so well known as, for example, Enio Morricone, but he also managed to make a very significant career as a film composer in America’s cradle of filmmaking art – in Hollywood.
15.05.2009, 09:08
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In a remote Russian village listed by UNESCO as a world heritage site, age-old traditions are competing with modern trends.
02.06.2009, 13:34
A Syrian organization has set up a vineyard that not only produces the best red wine in the region but helps mentally disadvantaged children and employs women who normally do not get economic opportunities.
03.03.2009, 09:52
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It seems some Italians are feeling nostalgic about Benito Mussolini, one of the key figures in the creation of fascism and an ally of Nazi Germany.
04.03.2009, 12:56
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While the typically Russian strong and all-powerful “macho” man may seem to be destined for extinction, a new strong type is taking over the Russian entrepreneurship scene – the Russian businesswoman.
Published: 13 March, 2009, 07:31
Barack Obama has signed new laws easing some of the less significant measures and allowing exiled Cuban-Americans to visit the island more frequently as well as making it easier to send food and medicine to Cuba.
