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  • Left posts gains in regional Indian elections

    Left posts gains in regional Indian elections

    May 19, 2006

    TRIVANDRUM, Kerala, India — Communist-led electoral coalitions registered substantial gains in two Indian states and several other regions this month in a development that observers say will have national repercussions. In Kerala, at India’s southern tip,...

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  • Charges of lavish wealth rubbish

    Charges of lavish wealth rubbish

    May 19, 2006

    Cuban President Fidel Castro speaks during the Cuban television program “Round Table” in Havana, May 15, where he called a Forbes magazine report naming him one of the world’s wealthiest rulers “rubbish.” In its May 5...

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  • Growing determination to free Cuban Five

    Growing determination to free Cuban Five

    May 19, 2006

    The Cuban Five — Antonio Guerrero, Ramón Labañino, René González, Gerardo Hernández and Fernando González — were defending Cuba against right-wing, Miami-based terrorism when they were arrested by U.S. authorities almost eight years ago. Despite an...

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  • Cuba elected to new UN rights council

    Cuba elected to new UN rights council

    May 19, 2006

    To the dismay of the Bush administration and its European Union allies, the UN General Assembly endorsed Cuba’s nomination to the newly created UN Council on Human Rights on May 9. Cuba was the choice of...

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  • Cuba revolutionizes its energy policies

    Cuba revolutionizes its energy policies

    May 19, 2006

    U.S. jitters over the prospect of dwindling world energy supplies are mounting daily. “Peak oil” and similar concepts are entering our everyday language. In socialist Cuba the outlook is somewhat different. Cubans know what an energy...

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