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Former US ambassador charged with spying for Cuba
AFP, Published on 05/12/2023
» MIAMI - A former US ambassador to Bolivia and member of the National Security Council has been charged with spying for Cuba for 40 years, the Justice Department announced Monday.
When drones were bores and bees
Roger Crutchley, Published on 30/07/2023
» When I was a child the word "drone" was used either as a reference to a lazy male bee or a monotonous dull sound, epitomised by people like teachers, preachers or prime ministers "droning on" in boring fashion.
Lollobrigida, Italy's wickedly witty screen goddess
AFP, Published on 16/01/2023
» ROME - One of the last icons of the Golden Age of Hollywood, Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida, whose death at the age of 95 was announced Monday, was famed for her biting wit and sensual beauty.
US TV news legend Barbara Walters dies at 93
Published on 31/12/2022
» Pioneering television journalist Barbara Walters, who upended a male-dominated industry as the first woman to anchor an evening news show in the United States, died on Friday at the age of 93, her long-time employer ABC said.
Pele, Maradona, Messi: Who is the greatest of all time?
AFP, Published on 30/12/2022
» RIO DE JANEIRO: When FIFA declared Pele and Diego Maradona jointly the players of the 20th century, and effectively the best of all time, they side-stepped but did not resolve a heated debate that has grown more complicated as Lionel Messi has dominated the 21st century.
60 years after Cuba crisis, nuclear war suddenly thinkable again
AFP, Published on 20/10/2022
» WASHINGTON - For 60 years, the Cuban missile crisis has loomed both as a frightening lesson on how close the world came to nuclear doomsday -- and how skillful leadership averted it.
Cuba votes to legalise same-sex marriage, surrogacy
AFP, Published on 27/09/2022
» HAVANA: Cubans voted to legalize same-sex marriage and adoption as well as surrogate pregnancies in a referendum over the weekend, the communist country's electoral officials said Monday.
Cuba authorises foreign investment in wholesale, retail
AFP, Published on 17/08/2022
» HAVANA: The Cuban government has announced it will allow foreign investment in domestic wholesale and retail trade for the first time in 60 years, in a move aimed at addressing critical shortages of goods.
Resurrecting a decaying art gem
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 24/04/2022
» In a decaying housing complex filled with garbage-strewn hallways, shuttered shops and barren gardens lies one of Latin America's greatest art treasures.
Turning professional: Cuban boxers hope to land a heavy blow
AFP, Published on 11/04/2022
» HAVANA: Spirits and expectations are high at Cuba's La Finca national boxing school, where training has intensified ahead of the "Los Domadores" national team's first professional contest since 1962.