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Cuba says vulture fund seeking 72 million euros never a creditor as UK court begins proceedings

Cuba's Central Bank on Friday lashed out against a "vulture fund" seeking to cash in on unpaid government debt lingering from the era of former leader Fidel Castro, calling illegitimate its claims against the Communist-run island in a London court.

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She spied for Cuba for years from inside the US government. Now she’s walked free

As the US reeled in the wake of 9/11, the arrest of a top government analyst who’d spent years spying for Cuba went almost unnoticed. Ana Montes has now left prison and the author of a new book tells Sheila Flynn just how damaging her betrayals really were, not only…

The Independent UK

OLD She spied for Cuba for years from inside the US government. Now she’s about to walk free

As the US reeled in the wake of 9/11, the arrest of a top government analyst who’d spent years spying for Cuba went almost unnoticed. Ana Montes leaves prison this month and the author of a new book tells Sheila Flynn just how damaging her betrayals really were, not only…

The Independent UK

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Cruise lines ordered to pay more than $400 million for ‘trafficking’ in confiscated property in Cuba

A federal judge ordered four Florida-based cruise lines that sailed to Cuba to pay more than $400 million in damages to the American company that had the concession to some of the port piers in Havana that had been unlawfully expropriated by Fidel Castro in 1960, the first of its…

Miami Herald

Barbara Walters' 12 most influential TV interviews

Legendary newswoman Barbara Walters, who died Friday at 93, may have started out on "Today" and blazed a trail as the first woman to co-anchor the evening news. But she made her name over decades of headline-making TV specials, in which she interviewed celebrities, businesspeople, politicians and — perhaps most…

Los Angeles Times

Barbara Walters dies: Trailblazing US news anchor and interviewer passes away aged 93

In a career spanning five decades, she interviewed world leaders including Fidel Castro, Saddam Hussein, Vladimir Putin, and every US president since Richard Nixon

Evening Standard

US TV News Legend Barbara Walters Dead at 93

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, has died at the age of 93, her long-time employer ABC said late Friday. Walters interviewed a host of US presidents, foreign leaders such as Anwar…

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Barbara Walters dies at 93; news anchor broke the boy’s club of network television

Barbara Walters, the first woman to break up the all-male club of network television anchors and one of the last remaining megastars in broadcast news who deftly coaxed world leaders and celebrities alike into revealing their secrets and deepest fears, has died, according to ABC News, her longtime employer.

Los Angeles Times

Trailblazing journalist Barbara Walters has died at 93

Over more than a half century, the driven celebrity journalist built one of the most remarkable careers in TV news. She was 93.

WEKU

Editorial: Spy who helped Cuba fight Miami exiles to be freed. Once she’s out, banish her there

Cuba’s top spy in the United States will be freed from prison on Jan. 8 after serving just 20 years in a federal prison in Texas. She is said to be coming to Miami, briefly. If she comes, she should keep on moving for the repressive regime for which she…

Miami Herald

Cuba says U.S. greenlights MLB players for World Baseball Classic

Cuba said on Saturday the United States had granted permission for some of its top ballplayers to participate in the World Baseball Classic on the national team.

Reuters

New details: Cuba spy soon to be freed was willing to divulge US war plans in Afghanistan

Ana Belén Montes, the convicted Cuba spy who is set to be released from prison in January, was willing to pass military secrets about the U.S. war in Afghanistan if requested by her spymasters in Havana, even if that resulted in the death of American soldiers on the ground, she…

Miami Herald

Hans Magnus Enzensberger obituary

German poet, writer and editor determined that West Germany should not ignore its Nazi past

The Guardian - UK

JFK files: What might the new records reveal and what conspiracy theories still surround the case?

National Archives declassifies more documents on one of 20th century’s defining events

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Did the CIA use Cuban exiles in plot involving Oswald? Questions remain as Biden withholds JFK records

Almost six decades after President John F. Kennedy’s assassination while he was riding in a motorcade in downtown Dallas, questions linger about who else, besides Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused gunman, might have been involved in what a 1979 congressional investigation report called a “conspiracy” to kill the American president.

France 24

Cuba sees mass exodus to US amid blackouts, shortages

Cuba is seeing its biggest exodus since Fidel Castro took power in 1959. According to US government data, over the past year nearly 250,000 Cubans have emigrated to the United States. The figure represents more than 2 percent of the island's population and more than 4 percent of its working…

Miami Herald

Book discussion at FIU turns into emotional rebuke of claims that Cubans are not exiles

MIAMI — It was supposed to be another routine event in the series of regular book presentations organized by Florida International University’s Cuban Research Institute: on the podium, a respected scholar authoritatively presenting her most recent research. In the audience, a few attendants asking polite questions.

The Guardian - UK

Pablo Milanés obituary

Cuban singer, songwriter and guitarist who was one of the founders of the nueva trova musical movement

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The Independent UK

JFK assassination expert says CIA has proof Lee Harvey Oswald was involved in secret operation in 1963

“This is an extraordinarily serious claim and it has profound implications for the official story,” JFK assassination expert Jefferson Morley claims

The New Daily

Green light for female Cuban boxers

Boxing powerhouse Cuba have given the green light to women who wish to partake in tournaments for the first time since Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution. The

Reuters

Boxing-Cuba to allow female boxers to compete for first time in six decades

Boxing powerhouse Cuba has given the green light to women who wish to partake in tournaments for the first time since Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution, sports officials said on Monday.

The Conversation

Rory Cormac's How to Stage a Coup is an entertaining critique, not a how-to manual

In Katie Kitamura’s brilliant novel Intimacies (2022), the story of a former African dictator being tried in the International Criminal Court, there is a summary of the case against the accused:

Daily Mirror

Puffy faced Vladimir Putin’s hand turns purple as he clutches chair in meeting

Fresh rumours over the health of Vladimir Putin have been sparked after a clip shows him gripping a chair with a purple-looking hand while he also looked bloated in the face

The Guardian - US

Pablo Milanés, legendary Cuban singer-songwriter, dies aged 79

Internationally famous musician known for hits such as Yolanda, was a supporter of Cuban revolution

Reuters

Evoking Castro, Putin and Cuban leader pledge to deepen ties

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Cuban counterpart Miguel Diaz-Canel unveiled a monument in a north Moscow square on Tuesday to Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, pledging to deepen their friendship in the face of U.S. sanctions against both countries.

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