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We’ll be rooting for Cuba in 2013.
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We’ll be rooting for Cuba in 2013.
Street vendors, mounted police, and walking on the Malecon…
“A little excited, a little nervous,” Palfrey told reporters before diving in. “Beautiful sea, beautiful sunrise.”
A scale model of the proposed glass monument, which contains an image of the revolutionary known as ‘El Che’, is currently being constructed, Galway Cllr Billy Cameron has said.
The last man to win boxing gold for Ireland believes the latest qualifiers can surpass the triple medal achievements of Beijing.
The Pope gave an unusually political speech before hundreds of thousands of people in Cuba today.
The Pope was welcomed by Cuban President Raul Castro, who told him that his country favours complete religious freedom.
A US politician has written to the Taoiseach urging him to stop the statue being built – but supporters of the project say the statue will commemorate Che’s Irish heritage. What do you think?
Enda Kenny is presented with a letter from the chairman of the House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs committee.
The Venezuelan president rallied thousands of supporters who welcomed him home after receiving cancer treatment in Cuba.
The Venezuelan leader has undergone surgery for another potentially cancerous tumour.
Galway City Council plans to erect a monument marking the revolutionary fighter’s links with the City of the Tribes.
A proposal to build a monument to the Cuban revolutionary has been harshly criticised by local businessman Declan Ganley.
Stunning images from a very rough ride.
The Venezuelan leader says he will still run in October’s presidential election despite the recurrence of his illness.
The Tunisian had spent eight years in the Cuban facility before Italy accepted him into the country two years ago.
The former Cuban leader has slammed the Republican Party candidates vying for the nomination to face Barack Obama in the autumn.
The nation best associated with Olympic boxing could be training Laganside prior to this summer’s Olympic games.
The 31-year-old was protesting a four-year prison sentence imposed for his part in a demonstration.
The notorious detention centre has now been open for ten years and, with indefinite military detention now enshrined in US law, hope is fading that it will be closed down as pledged.
A state-run website says Twitter allowed the phrase ‘fidelcastro’ to trend, furthering a false rumour that he had died.
*According to a council of Afro-Cuban priests, anyway…
Ireland has no plans to send its condolences to North Korea on the passing of Kim Jong Il. Should we send formal sympathy?
China, Russia and South Korea send messages of condolence, while other countries have merely ‘noted’ the Dear Leader’s passing.
The very best of the week’s writing from around the web.
The price of keeping a prisoner at the notorious detention centre is more than 30 times the cost of imprisoning a person in the United States mainland.
The move is part of a series of free-market changes introduced by Raul Castro since he took over from Fidel.
The Venezuelan president has been undergoing treatment in Cuba and now says he is free of the illness.
The Venezuelan president said he expects to return home within the coming days with “good news” after undergoing tests in Cuba.
The former Cuban leader has dismissed Barack Obama’s recent UN speech and condemned Nato’s campaign in Libya as a “monstrous crime”.
US swimmer Diana Nyad has abandoned her latest attempt to become the first person to swim across the Florida Straits without a shark cage.
Farmer Mannorkys Santamaria said the piglets also take milk from their mothers, but when they see Yeti, they run to her for a meal.
With a shot-putter running the 100m, French cyclist Thomas Voeckler racing a horse and the San Diego Chargers launching a wine, this week’s list is a tribute to sporting incongruity.
Known as polydactyly, Yoandri Hernandez Garrido’s condition is relatively common, but it’s rare for the extra digits to be so perfect.
A gay man and a transgender woman have tied the knot in Cuba in a first-of-its kind wedding for the country.
The Venezuelan leader underwent surgery on a tumour in June.
The Venezuelan president has also had plenty to say about his country’s performance at the Copa America.
The socialist revolutionary is battling cancer but remains upbeat.
A new zombie horror film brings a different type of revolution to Cuba.