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The European Union executive on Wednesday welcomed Cuba's decision to re-open diplomatic dialogue with the bloc following the lifting of EU sanctions, officials in Brussels said.
"We see that as a positive step and we welcome their reaction to the eventual re-establishment of a political dialogue," a spokesman for EU aid commissioner Louis Michel... |
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 Meteorologists’ research has shown that Tropical Storm Bertha has begun moving away from the Cape Verde Islands on Friday morning after forming in the far eastern Atlantic on Thursday afternoon.The storm is expected to take a turn to the northwest and then north before it reaches North America. It’s early to predict any development of...
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 Armed and unmasked thieves stole two Pablo Picasso prints and two works by
Brazilian artists from Sao Paulo’s Pinacoteca Museum on Thursday, officials said, according
to Reuters.
It appears this is the second major art theft in the Brazilian city in six
months.
Three robbers entered the museum and threatened security guards....
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 The Amazonian states of Beni
and Pando voted overwhelmingly Sunday for autonomy from the central government.
The referendum came a month after voters in the State of Santa Cruz also cast
ballots in favour of autonomy. Both states passed autonomy measures by more
than 80 percent of the vote. The Bolivian government said the vote was...
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 A new Indian tribe that hasn’t had contact with civilization was discovered in the Amazon. Brazil’s National Indian Foundation said in the statement it spotted a group of Indians, six huts and a large planted area near the Envira River, close to the Peruvian border in the Brazilian state of Acre in the western Amazon rainforest.“We put...
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 The founder and leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of
Colombia (FARC), Manuel Marulanda, died in March, according to a
statement made Saturday by government officials. They also said Alfonso Cano had replaced him.
The death of the guerrilla captain is considered to have put the
group in difficulty, bringing it a...
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Venezuela
accused 60 Colombian troops Saturday of illegally entering its territory,
continuing in fomenting tensions between the two countries.
According to a statement of Venezuelan Foreign Minister
Nicolás Maduro, 60 Colombian troops had been caught Friday in Venezuela’s western Apure
state, about 875 yards from the border....
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 Bolivians will hold a vote of confidence in the rule of
their President Evo Morales, BBC News reports. Leftist Morales, who has more
than two years to run as leader, agreed to hold the referendum after the
opposition-run upper house of parliament backed it.
Citizens of Bolivia
will vote within 90 days on whether Morales, his...
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 Severe storms hit the Southeast on Thursday, damaging houses and shopping areas in at least four states. Some northeast Mississippi counties and areas of northwest Alabama were under tornado warnings until midafternoon Thursday. One person was killed and three were injured by a tornado which hit North Carolina, authorities said. A strong...
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 The 2000-year dormant Chaiten volcano blasted ash some 20 miles into the Andean sky on Tuesday. As a result, the government ordered the evacuation of everyone living within a 30-mile radius of it. The military, navy and police helped to the evacuation process of thousands of people living in the neighbourhood of the volcano’s base....
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 Former Roman Catholic bishop Fernando Lugo won Paraguay’s
presidential election, ending more than six decades of one-party rule by the
Colorado Party (CP). His victory is historic in the country, as CP held power
even longer than the communist regimes of Cuba,
North Korea and China.
“The humble citizens are the ones...
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 West Nile Virus Still Spreading
According to William K. Reisen, PhD, of the Center for Vectorborne Diseases at the University of California, Davis, the number of people infected with the West Nile...
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Today is Thursday, June 5
the 157th day of 2008 with 209 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and...
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 General Petraeus Set for Central Command
It appears that U. S. President George W. Bush’s favorite
general has been handed the task of winning the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
as well as confronting the...
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 A culinary journey through Crete
Almost as soon as you set foot on the southern Mediterranean island of Crete the poignant smell of oregano, wild flowers and wild teas tickles your senses while the...
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