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                    [ArticleID] => 1533611
                    [Title] => US, Cuba reach understanding on restoring commercial flights
                    [Summary] => 

The United States and Cuba have reached an understanding on restoring regularly scheduled commercial flights, Cuban and American officials said Wednesday on the eve of the anniversary of detente between the Cold War foes.

[DatePublished] => 2015-12-16 18:08:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/world/20151217/commercial-flight-cuba.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1415188 [Title] => Obama aims to influence debate in State of the Union speech [Summary] =>

President Barack Obama planned to use his second-to-last State of the Union address to Congress to maintain his influence in American politics as the unofficial campaign to choose his successor has already begun.

[DatePublished] => 2015-01-21 03:08:25 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1756834 [AuthorName] => Steven R. Hurst and Julie Pace [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1404386 [Title] => Pope Benedict helped free American from Cuba [Summary] =>

Pope Francis rightly got credit for helping bring the U.S. and Cuba together and free U.S. government subcontractor Alan Gross. But it was Francis' predecessor, Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI, who made the first high-level Vatican manoeuver to release Gross, spurred in part by an unlikely group of papal lobbyists.

[DatePublished] => 2014-12-19 06:08:19 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1620017 [AuthorName] => Nicole Winfield [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/world/20141219/Pope-Francis-Vatican.jpg ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 761460 [Title] => Alan Gross not part of Cuban prisoner amnesty [Summary] =>

 An American government subcontractor jailed in Cuba for crimes against the state is not among nearly 3,000 prisoners granted amnesty by President Raul Castro on Friday, said a senior Foreign Ministry official.

[DatePublished] => 2011-12-24 12:46:46 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 737036 [Title] => AP sources: US offered Cuba swap for American [Summary] =>

The United States offered to let a convicted Cuban spy return home in exchange for the release of an imprisoned American, but Cuba rebuffed the offer, US officials said.

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The United States should not expect Cuba to make a unilateral humanitarian gesture to release an imprisoned American government contractor, a senior Cuban official said yesterday.

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 Cuba accused former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson of "blackmail" and slander on Wednesday, denying his claims that he was invited to the island to negotiate the release of a jailed American government subcontractor.

[DatePublished] => 2011-09-15 08:29:41 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 583678 [Title] => US, Cuba to hold migration talks next week [Summary] =>

The United States and Cuba have agreed to hold immigration talks in Washington within days, a US official said Saturday, the first since a similar meeting in Havana in February.

[DatePublished] => 2010-06-13 15:45:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) ) )
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