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Boxers back up Cuba's mystique

<p style="text-align: justify;">The reigning world youth champion from Cuba went after Italy's Fabio Turchi last night as if he wanted to finish off the heavyweight boxing final of the Youth Olympic Games in record time at the International Convention Centre at Suntec City. Read More

Cuba's subsidized cigarettes going up in smoke

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA | Wed Aug 25, 2010 5:54pm EDT. HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba is phasing out its longstanding monthly allotments of subsidized cigarettes as President Raul Castro works to jump-start the island's economy. Read More

U.S., Cuba, Mexico urged to cooperate on Gulf drilling

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba's oil industry wants to work with its counterparts in the United States and Mexico to promote safe drilling practices and avoid the kind of well blowout and spill seen recently in the Gulf of Mexico, a leading drilling industry expert said on Wednesday. Read More

Padura’s story to be filmed by Benicio del Toro

<p style="text-align: justify;">Writer Leonardo Padura said he is working on the script for two stories of a film entitled Seven days in Havana, along with Benicio del Toro and director Juan Carlos Tabio. Read More

Cuba: World Congress of Animal Production

<p style="text-align: justify;">Cuba will carry out in November the 3rd International Congress on Animal Production (Tropical 2010), to encourage the exchange of experience and successes in the area, said sources of the Organizing Committee. Read More

Richardson presses Cuba to free American contractor

<p style="text-align: justify;">Havana, Cuba (CNN) -- New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson wrapped up a week-long trade mission to Cuba Thursday, a trip in which he also pursued another goal -- bringing about the release of a jailed U.S. contractor. Read More

New Brand of Havana Club Rum to Hit the Market Soon

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, Cuba, Aug 26 (acn) Havana Club International S.A. will soon launch a new brand of this world famous Cuban rum created in 1878. Read More

Cuba Grabs Last Gold Medal of Youth Olympics

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, Cuba, Aug 26 (acn) Cuba defeated Argentina in four sets on Thursday (25-23, 25-20, 17-25, 25-20) to claim the title of the Youth Olympic Games boys'volleyball tournament, which was also the last gold at stake in these inaugural Games in Singapore. Read More

Zapata Rail on the edge

<p style="text-align: justify;">Tue, Jul 13, 2010. Zapata Rail Cyanolimnas cerverai is a very poorly-known waterbird endemic to Cuba, and today a relict species from the Zapata Swamp in western Cuba. The bird's elusive nature has caused confusion within the ornithological community as to its status' confusion that may have unwittingly provided a smoke screen to a very real threat that may be driving the species to extinction. Read More

Chavez visiting in Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">Aug 26, 2010, 2:30 GMT.Havana - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez arrived Wednesday in Havana for a publicly unannounced visit with revolutionary leader Fidel Castro and his brother and successor, President Raul Castro, according to Cuban state media. Read More