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Pope meets with Fidel, misses out on dissident greeting

Written by Nicole Winfield and Michael Weissenstein HAVANA (AP) — Pope Francis flies to eastern Cuba on Monday for the next leg of his pilgrimage after having met with both Raul and Fidel Castro but missing out on an encounter with Cuban dissidents.

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To the Brink: JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis exhibit

On Dec. 17, 2014, President Barack Obama announced that the U.S. would normalize diplomatic relations with Cuba. A timely exhibit at the JFK Library, "To the Brink," highlights the Cuban Missile Crisis and the 13 terrifying days when the world faced nuclear holocaust. In the unsettling words

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Kerry in Cuba for “victory lap”

Written by Michael Weissenstein and Bradley Klapper HAVANA (AP) — Washington's top diplomat is coming to Havana on Friday to raise the Stars and Stripes over the newly opened U.S. Embassy, making a symbolically charged victory lap for the Obama administration's new policy of engagement with

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Timeline of key events in US-Cuba relations

Timeline of key events in U.S.-Cuba relations: — THE START: Fidel Castro's rebels take power as dictator Fulgencio Batista flees Cuba on Jan 1, 1959. The United States soon recognizes the new government. But relations begin to sour as Americans criticize summary trials and executions of Batista