[Ynet]. Cuba has freed six more detainees, dissidents said on Thursday, as Havana begins to release 53 people the United States considers political prisoners as part of an agreement aimed at ending decades of hostility between the two nations.
Including three detainees released on Wednesday, there have been nine detainees liberated over the past 24 hours, political opposition groups on the communist-led island said. All but one of the nine are members of the dissident Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU).
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The Castro's are watching U.S. tanks leaving Germany. They know the keys to GITMO will soon be handed to them. It was not for nothing the deal was struck by secret 'shadow government' regime insiders, not the Congress or the State Department.
[Dhaka Tribune] Sri Lanka's long-time leader Mahinda Rajapaksa has admitted defeat in the presidential election, his office says.
President Rajapaksa has dominated politics for a decade, but faced an unexpected challenge from his health minister Maithripala Sirisena.
The statement said Mr Rajapaksa would "ensure a smooth transition of power".
Official results are not due until later on Friday, but early results indicated that Mr Sirisena was on course to win the 50% needed.
He has not yet commented.
'Left residence'
Mr Rajapaksa, who was seeking a third term in office, is credited by many with ending the civil war in 2009, when troops routed the Tamil Tigers separatist rebels after more than two decades of fighting.
But rights groups accused both sides in the war of atrocities, allegations the government denies.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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