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• Cuba official: U.S. hinders Net service
HAVANA - 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. "We ...
• Mood of U.S. consumer
NEW YORK - Consumer sentiment tumbled to its lowest level in 28 years this month, a survey showed on Friday, as short-term inflation expectations hit their highest since the stagflationary early 1980s. The news heightens the dilemma for the Federal ...
• Myanmar toll takes big jump
More than two weeks after the event, we are at a critical point,” said U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. “Unless more aid gets into the country — quickly — we face the risk of an outbreak of infectious diseases that could dramatically ...
• U.S. Marine guilty of sexual abuse in Japan
TOKYO - An American Marine was found guilty in a military court of abusive sexual conduct of a 14-year-old Japanese girl in Okinawa, southern Japan, the military said Friday. Staff Sgt. Tyrone L. Hadnott, 38, also was sentenced to four years in ...
• Chavez warns Colombia against U.S. base
CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez on Wednesday warned Colombia not to allow a U.S. military base on its border with Venezuela, saying he would consider such an act an "aggression." Chavez said he would not permit Colombia's U.S.-backed ...