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...Catholic Church's No. 2 official set to arrive in Havana on Wednesday night, just a day after Cuban leader Fidel Castro announced the end to his 49 years in power. It is perfect timing for the Vatican, which is aiming to play a central role in the island nation's transition into what many hope will be a post-communist future...
...first major policy plays to be a wholesale reform of Cuban agriculture, which can't supply even staples like milk, with provisions like more profit-oriented farmers markets. That may well be followed by similar liberalization in service industries like tourism, where Cubans often make appreciably more than the nation's paltry $15-a-month average wage...
...Salaam, Tanzania's commercial capital, on Monday, Bush praised efforts by his Tanzanian counterpart, Jataya Kikwete, to fight corruption: "You are a strong leader," he said. According to the U.S. embassy in Tanzania, Washington will contribute $662 million to the East African nation this year. The Millennium Challenge Corporation also granted Tanzania $698 million for water, energy and infrastructure projects. "I'll just put it bluntly," said Bush. "America doesn't want to spend money on people who steal the money." Kikwete replied: "Different people may have different views about you and your Administration and your legacy...
...such long-standing fissures that pop up across the continent - many of whose modern nation states folded in diverse kingdoms and peoples - that shape Europe's responses to Kosovo's historic, and potentially precedent-setting, declaration of independence. Europe is divided over whether to recognize the new would-be nation on territory that has until now been recognized as part of sovereign Serbia. These divisions forced the European Union to leave it up to each member state to decide whether to recognize Kosovo's independence...
...Serbia - or both: Cyprus, Greece, Romania, Bulgaria and Slovakia have rejected Kosovo's independence. It's not hard to find motivation for their stance: The Republic of Cyprus, for example, fears that Kosovo independence will give weight to Turkish Cypriot claims for dividing up the island into two separate nation states. The Foreign Minister of Slovakia, which fears unrest from its large Hungarian minority, said it "does not see a way" to recognize a Kosovar nation state...