US Denies Role in Cuban Exiles&#39; Pardon
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Bush administration officials denied any role yesterday in the politically fortuitous pardon of four Cuban exiles by the outgoing Panamanian government.
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Panama&#39;s outgoing president has pardoned four Cuban emigres convicted for their role in an assassination attempt on Cuban President Fidel Castro.
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Panama&#39;s President-elect Martin Torrijos on Friday condemned the pardon granted by outgoing Panamanian president to four anti-Castro Cuba-Americans and vowed to take measures to resume diplomatic ties with Cuba.
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Cuba accused the United States on Tuesday of issuing too few visas for Cuban emigres, saying the delay was part of Washington's efforts to overthrow the Cuban government.
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Panama&#39;s outgoing president on Thursday pardoned four Cuban exiles jailed for plotting to kill Cuban President Fidel Castro in 2000 and three or them flew straight to Miami, a haven of anti-Castro groups.
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There is no evidence to support claims by three Americans that they were severely beaten in jail since their arrest on charges they kidnapped Afghans as part of a freelance
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Despite pressure from members of Congress and business groups, the United States has no plans to soften its policies toward Cuba as the island heads into the post-Fidel Castro era, Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez says.
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The United States is helping build a prison in Afghanistan that would take some prisoners now at Guantanamo Bay, but the White House said Friday that it was not meant as an alternative to the detainee facility in Cuba.
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Panama's president on Thursday pardoned four Cuban emigres accused of trying to assassinate Cuban President Fidel Castro despite Havana's threat to cut diplomatic ties over such a move.
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The United States indicated Wednesday it will not free jailed militants to secure the release of three UN election workers in Afghanistan, even as the kidnappers claimed a deal was close.
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Cuba on Wednesday accused the United States of lying about its treatment of inmates at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, claiming torture and cruelty occur daily at the prison camp for terror suspects.
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The United States says Cuban dissidents released from Cuban prison Monday should never have been jailed in the first place. News reports from Havana say several political prisoners held since
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It wasn't the Bay of Pigs invasion or the U.S. embargo against Cuba that turned Fidel Castro against the United States. He was in the anti-American camp long beforehand.
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Four Britons released from the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay last month have been refused British passports under an obscure law not used in almost 30 years, a lawyer representing two of them said.
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Britain has declined to accept the return of nearly all of the former British residents held at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, because they have no legal right to return, The Guardian reported.
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The United States will not attend next   week's summit in Cuba of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) that   will gather some of its most hostile critics just 90 miles from   U.S. soil, the top U.S. diplomat in Cuba said on Thursday.
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US authorities may have to release more than 1,000 Cubans held since a 1980 influx of asylum-seekers whom Cuba will not take back, lawyers said following a Supreme Court immigration decision.