Many Cubans temper hopes for improved US relations (AP)
AP - Cubans have heard talk about improved U.S.-Cuba relations before, and many are not buying it this time around  at least for now.
AP - Cubans have heard talk about improved U.S.-Cuba relations before, and many are not buying it this time around  at least for now.
“You could only request specific documents, but there was never any way of knowing what documents actually existed to request
“It was a strange experience being in Russia in the 1970s, because everything I did was monitored,” he says
Essentially, she says that these things take time - and as part of the asset-protection scheme in place since January, there are now “very detailed, quantifiable conditions on the amount of lending, on mortgages and businesses
I’ve often wondered since if the CIA had any real idea just how hollow the Soviet system was back then
Yesterday’s earthquake is thought to have triggered along a faultline some tens of miles long
Firefighters aided by dogs were trying to rescue people from crumbled homes, including a student dormitory where half a dozen students remained trapped, RAI state TV reported
“This country is reminded of the risk of earthquakes only when it finds itself under the rubble,” he told Corriere della Sera
We’d lived in the house since 1977, a beautiful old palazzo built in 1703, and now it’s destroyed
And that wouldn’t have happened without governments acting together across the world
And, he happily concluded, “authority won”
Two weeks before the election, it now portrays Jacob Zuma as a wronged victim in a show trial
Almost, but not quite
Where words fail, roses save the day
“Fears of organised riots” - stoked by the previous day’s Telegraph, it failed to add - “
A teenage male, dressed in black, tried to force his way through a crowd of about 2,000 people gathered outside an Imambargah, or Shia place of worship, in Chakwal for an annual religious festival
In another incident, police in the western Baluchistan province discovered 50 dead bodies and about 60 unconscious Afghans inside a truck container that had crossed the Afghan border