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A military judge on Friday postponed the first war crimes tribunal at Guantanamo Bay, saying he wants to wait until the Supreme Court makes its highly anticipated ruling on the right of detainees to challenge their confinement in civil courts.
A military judge wants to hear from the Supreme Court before starting the first war crimes tribunal at the Guantanamo Bay prison.
A top Cuban official said Friday that Raul Castro’s government would consider loosening Internet restrictions on ordinary citizens newly allowed to purchase computers _ but Washington’s decades-old economic embargo makes it impossible.
A Pentagon official said Wednesday he will not resign as legal adviser to war-crimes tribunals at Guantanamo, despite his removal from the trial of Osama bin Laden’s driver because of a lack of impartiality.
The U.S. Navy has denied Chelsea Clinton permission to campaign for her mother on a former bombing range on a small Puerto Rican island.
Chelsea Clinton is back in Puerto Rico stumping for her mother, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
People who lost relatives in the Sept. 11 attacks fear alleged mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will use his upcoming war-crimes trial to boast about his role and rally support for al-Qaida.
The suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks is cooperating with his defense _ an apparent break with other Guantanamo prisoners who are boycotting their war-crimes trials.
The Pentagon has dropped charges against a Saudi at Guantanamo who was alleged to have been the so-called “20th hijacker” in the Sept. 11 attacks, his U.S. military defense lawyer said Monday.
Cuba on Monday dismissed a videoconference between President Bush and three key dissidents as a stunt to bolster the U.S. leader’s low approval ratings, claiming there would be no political opposition on the island without funding from Washington.
Is Raul Castro willing to bring changes to the Cuban social, political and economic structure, stepping away from the shadow of his iconic elder brother Fidel Castro? Cuba under Raul Castro is somewhat different from Fidel Castro’s Cuba. The...
With Raul Castro succeeding his brother Fidel Castro as the President of Cuba, Cubans were apprehensive whether this was a continuation of the old Castro regime or whether new changes will usher in. However, Raul Castro has proved that he is more...
The rebels in Cuba have launched a cyber war against the high handedness of the Cuban authorities that the Cuban government despite of stringent measures is finding it hard to contain. To prevent the proliferation of liberal thinking in Cuba that...
The decision by Fidel Castro to step down as the president of Cuba has given a new chance to the US to change its fossilized Cuban policy. Infact, there is no excuse for the US to continue ‘persecuting’ Cuba even while Castro was in power. The...
Since the ailing Fidel Castro has finally announced his retirement from his positions as President and Commander-in-chief of Cuba, the question that now arises is, will this slackening of the iron grip of communism over the country herald a new...
Legend says that he had survived 638 US sponsored assassination attempts. Exploding cigars, poisoned food and infected diving suit could not put a break to his 49-years regime that saw nine US presidents. However, finally to the relief of the mighty...
President Bush wants to go out of office next year with a flourish. North Korea and Iraq are two foreign policy achievements he wants. He also desires Cuba to be another jewel in his crown of triumphs. But he has stayed the course of a continuing...
When Fidel Castro announced way back on July 31, 2006 that he would have to leave office to undergo immediate intestinal surgery, one would have been pardoned to believe that Castro was now leaving the President’s office for good. At the time, he was...
Economics often prevails over politics. This observation is well proved by the increasing trade between Cuba and the US state of Alabama. Cuba has been an anathema for the US, since Fidel Castro took over the Central American country. Castro’s anti-US...
The march of Latin America out the US shadows and towards left coupled with domestic political transition drawing Cuba closer towards the American states despite the US opposition. The ascendancy of Raul Castro as the President of Cuba and gradual...
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A worker carries lettuce in a hydroponic farm which uses specialized irrigation methods to grow vegetables in smaller, non-rural areas, in Havana, Thursday, May 15, 2008. An international group is studying Cuba’s organic agriculture, as it has been...
