China seeks fresh nuclear talks as Kim eludes cameras

<p style="text-align: justify;">SEOUL | Sat Aug 28, 2010 7:11am EDT. SEOUL (Reuters) -- China is lobbying neighbors to sign up to a road map for renewed nuclear disarmament talks with North Korea, whose leader Kim Jong-il is apparently visiting China amid conciliatory words and threats of atomic "holy war." Read More

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Hip Hop, the Cuban Way

<p style="text-align: justify;">While it is true that the way to communicate through Rap does not belong to a Cuban style, the national public increasingly knows and enjoys this imported musical genre that is enriched by the attributes and reality of Cuba. The music players this summer, with regard to the 6th Cuban Hip Hop Symposium, were Hermanos de Causa, Anónimo Consejo, Brebaje Man, the solo Danay and Mexican Moyenei, performers of urban musical style. Read More

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Head of Radio and TV Martí resigns

<p style="text-align: justify;">Radio/TV Martí director Pedro Roig resigned Friday after more than seven years at the head of the often controversial U.S. government stations that broadcast to Cuba. Read More

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Cuba OKs 99-year foreign leases of gov't land; allows citizens to grow, sell own farm goods

<p style="text-align: justify;">Published August 27, 2010. HAVANA (AP) — Cuba has issued a pair of surprising free-market decrees, allowing foreign investors to lease government land for up to 99 years — potentially touching off a golf-course building boom — and loosening state controls on commerce to let islanders grow and sell their own fruit and vegetables. Read More

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Ciego de Avila writer to win the 2010 Julio Cortazar Award

<p style="text-align: justify;">27 de Agosto 2010. Félix Sánchez, Ciego de Avila province´s writer, is the winner of the 9th Julio Cortazar Short Story Ibero American Competition for his story, Los confines de la muerte, as it was announced yesterday at the Dulce María Loynaz Cultura Center in Havana. Read More

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Fidel Castro Meets with Daniel Estulin in Havana

<p style="text-align: justify;">RHC. Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro, met with the Russian writer Daniel Estulin, author of a trilogy that exposes the so-called Bilderberg Club. Estulin thanked Fidel Castro for the inclusion of fragments of his texts in his most recent journalistic columns. Read More

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Cuban Local Beekeepers Obtain High Volumes of Honey

<p style="text-align: justify;">CIEGO DE AVILA, Cuba, Aug 27 (acn) Beekeepers in coastal areas of the province of Ciego de Avila contributed more than US$100,000 to the Cuban economy in the period from June to the present with the collection of 50 tons of honey. Read More

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Spanish Ballet of Cuba Returns to Gran Teatro

<p style="text-align: justify;">The Spanish Ballet of Cuba (BEC) is back at Havana’s Gran Teatro with two performances in September choreographed by director and first dancer Eduardo Veitía. The Spanish Ballet will present their Greatest Hits from September 17 to 19, followed by Emigrantes, by first dancer Irene Rodríguez, September 24 to 26. Read More

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Cuba Announces National Baseball Pre-Selection Team

<p style="text-align: justify;">The Cuban Baseball Federation announced on Thursday the national 39-member pre-selection team for the World Championship and Pan-American Games qualifier scheduled for October 1-10 in Puerto Rico. Read More

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Former U.S. President James Carter Ends N. Korea Visit

<p style="text-align: justify;">Pyongyang, 27 ago (Prensa Latina) Bilateral relations and the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula were discussed by North Korean officials and former U.S.President James Carter during a visit that ended Friday. Read More

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