Cuban hunger striker quits bid for Internet access
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A Cuban dissident demanding unfettered   access to the Internet ended a seven-month hunger strike on   Thursday after fellow dissidents convinced him to give up.
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The former Argentine football star, Diego Armando Maradona, traveled on Monday to Cuba to continue his treatment against his addiction to drugs.
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The boss of the underground network in Brazil's Sao Paulo city quits after a station collapse killed seven people.
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Cuba said on Monday that it was ending  circulation of the U.S. dollar in its territory as of Nov. 8 in  response to tightened U.S. economic sanctions.
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The Ukrainian pop star Ruslana Lezhychko has temporarily ended a hunger strike in support of the opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko.
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A group of university students posed tough questions about Cuban society to Parliament chief Ricardo Alarcon, in a video made public through the Internet and distributed in Havana that is causing a stir in the communist-ruled country.
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A former POW resigned as a volunteer to President Bush's re-election campaign Saturday after it was learned that he appeared in an anti-John Kerry ad sponsored by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
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Cuba severed diplomatic ties with Panama on Thursday, retaliating within hours for the president's pardoning four Cuban emigres accused of trying to assassinate Cuban President Fidel Castro.
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WASHINGTON -- A former POW resigned as a volunteer to President Bush&#39;s re-election campaign Saturday after it was learned that he appeared in an anti-John Kerry ad sponsored by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
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Manuel Fraga, former information minister under the late dictator Gen. Francisco Franco and the last politically active survivor of that regime, said Monday he wants to run for a fifth straight term as head of ...
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Serbian war crimes suspect Vojislav Seselj has ended a month-long hunger strike after winning back the right to defend himself before the UN tribunal in The Hague, the court said.
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Two of Somalia's leading private media outlets, forced off the air two days ago by the country's transitional government, now appear to have lost their internet presence.
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Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor Tom Lantos, a strident campaigner for global human rights, announced Wednesday he was bowing out of the US Congress after being diagnosed with cancer.
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For a moment, the 25-year-old baker panicked when he heard that Fidel Castro was stepping down as Cuba's president. He flicked a switch to see if power had been cut, and turned a tap to check for water. He wondered whether the distribution center would come through with milk rations for his two kids.
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A senior Cuban official has defended the country's Internet restrictions as a response to U.S. aggression and called for controlling "the wild colt of new technologies."
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A Brazilian Roman Catholic bishop on a hunger strike for 23 days to protest against an irrigation project ended his fast on Thursday after President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said construction will go forward.
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The cable net dropped the controversial Jamaican dancehall star from a pre-Video Music Awards concert in Miami this weekend after coming under fire from gay-rights groups.