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  • Ariel Castro Cleveland Kidnapping Suspect May Receive Additional Charges

    Ariel Castro, who is accused of holding three women captive in his Cleveland home for nearly a decade, may receive charges in addition to 300-plus he pleaded not guilty to earlier this ...

  • Obama...Give Me Five in International Meeting of Design in Cuba

    Havana, Jun 19 (Prensa Latina) ''Obama...Give me five'', the stimulating slogan of the campaign for the liberation of the five Cuban anti-terrorists sentenced in United States, leads the posters'' exhibition of the event Diseño Forma 2013 (Design Form 2013) held in this capital city. The Cuban artistic director and graphic designer Jorge Martell told to ...

  • Dominican officials look to dump poultry glut as Haiti ban holds

    Santo Domingo. - Dominican Republic is running around "like a chicken with its head cut off" in the heels of Haiti's ban on local poultry products that took effect for more than one week, as various sectors suggest ways to deal with the expected glut. Agriculture minister Luis Ramon Rodriguez, who met today with north region chicken and egg farmers, said the government could buy ...

  • Canada deploying 34 peacekeepers to serve with Brazilians in Haiti

    Canada is sending 34 troops to Haiti to serve as a peacekeepers with a Brazilian battalion, Defence Minister Peter MacKay announced Wednesday. MacKay announced the deployment in Ottawa alongside Calgary MP Diane Ablonczy and Gen. Tom Lawson, Canada's Chief of the Defence Staff. They will deploy from June 21 until December 2013, MacKay said. "Members of the Canadian Armed ...

  • Ariel Castro gets August trial date in Ohio kidnap case

    A man accused of kidnapping three women and holding them in his home and raping them over a decade was given a late summer trial date Wednesday. Ariel Castro, 52, appeared in court for a brief hearing as Judge Michael Russo said he was aiming to begin the trial by Aug. 4, meeting a 90-day speedy trial requirement. Castro was arrested May 6, and the speedy trial requirement could be waived to ...

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Sarah's Key (Elle s’appelait Sarah)

Sarah's Key (Elle s’appelait Sarah)

Sarahs Key (Elle sappelait Sarah) is a consistently engrossing, sometimes stunning, but emotionally uneven film that literalizes its thematic insistence on the importance of storytelling in maintaining historical memory by making an often neglected chapter of the Holocaust the ... ...

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  • MasterCard Announces Leadership Changes in its Latin America and Caribbean Region

    PURCHASE, N.Y. & MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- MasterCard announced today the appointment of Gilberto Caldart as president of its Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) business, effective August 1. Caldart, who currently heads the company's GeoSouth Division (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay) for MasterCard LAC, will report to Ann Cairns, president of ...

  • Injured Blake withdraws from Jamaica championships

    KINGSTON, Jamaica - Olympic Jamaican sprinter Yohan Blake has withdrawn from the island's national championships this week because of a hamstring injury.Agent Cubie Seegobin says Blake has not recovered from the injury. He says Blake is "steadily improving" but he's "not at the level for a national championship."Blake won the 100 meters at the 2011 World ...

  • More Charges Planned Against Castro

    Ariel Castro, center, sits before a judge with his defense attorney's, Craig Weintraub, left, and Jaye Schlachet during a pretrial hearing, June 19, 2013, in Cleveland, ...

  • Environmental Education in Santiago de Cuba Bay

    Santiago de Cuba, Jun 19 (Prensa Latina) Several environmental education actions are implemented today in this eastern city, striving to reduce its pollution levels and restore vitality to the marine ...

  • Medina clarifies Drastic measures to help farmers not against Haiti

    Santo Domingo. - The Presidency on Wednesday clarified that president Danilo Medina's pledge of drastic measures to deal with Port-au-Prince's ban on Dominican eggs and chickens aren't against Haiti, but to help poultry production instead. "At no time did the President say that drastic measures would be against anyone," said Presidency spokesman Robert Rodriguez, adding ...

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