Cuban President Raul Castro (pictured, left) on Friday announced plans to pardon over the next few days some 3,000 prisoners, including 86 foreigners from 25 countries, for "humanitarian reasons".
Brazil's police moves in to take back the favelas from the drug lords, two years ahead of the football World Cup. Also, Cuba overturns a 50-year ban on property sales - we look at the latest signs of reform under Raul Castro. Finally, with gaffes, scandals and roller-coaster approval ratings, the US Republican race is keeping us all entertained.
The leader of Cuba’s dissident group Ladies in White, Laura Pollan, died Friday aged 63. The Ladies in White group has been at the centre of efforts to promote change in Cuba after five decades of singe-party communist rule.
FRENCH PAPERS, Wed., 20/4/2011: Sarkozy’s slogan for his 2007 Presidential campaign was “Travailler plus pour gagner plus” or “Work more to earn more”. Increasing purchasing power was another promise. Now, Sarkozy is introducing measures that he hopes will make these electoral rally cries sound less hollow.
As Cuba marked the 50th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs victory on Friday, it was also opening the Communist Party's 6th Congress. It's the first time in 14 years that the event has been held and comes amid plans for reform by President Raul Castro. The Cuban government is making a major political shift in terms of its economic model and for many, the shake-up is not before time.
Raul Castro (pictured) has told delegates meeting at a Cuban Communist Party congress that he would recommend new limits on political terms and acknowledged that the party had failed to promote younger people to senior positions.
Delegates from Cuba’s Communist Party are meeting to vote on reforms ushered in under President Raul Castro as the country’s ageing leadership struggles to relax its grip on the economy while affirming its socialist ideology.
Two former Argentinean military rulers are now on trial over charges relating to the kidnapping of babies from political prisoners during the dictatorship. In Cuba, the Communist Party will hold its first congress in 14 years. And finally, Boeing wins the contract of the century, an order for 149 aerial refuelling tankers.
Cuban President Raul Castro (left) announced a cabinet shakeup on Thursday, relieving a longtime veteran of the Cuban revolution of his post as communications minister and sacking the minister of construction for "errors committed in his job".
Cuban President Raul Castro (left) announced a cabinet shakeup on Thursday, relieving a longtime veteran of the Cuban revolution of his post as communications minister and sacking the minister of construction for "errors committed in his job".
