BERLIN (AFP) - Saudi King Abdullah suggested implanting electronic chips in detainees from Guantanamo after their release to track them, leaked documents on the US lockup in Cuba indicated on Tuesday.
German news weekly Der Spiegel, one of several media outlets to have obtained the documents from the WikiLeaks website, reported in its online edition from a diplomatic cable dated Mar [...]
KUWAIT CITY (AFP) - Kuwait disowned on Wednesday comments attributed to its interior minister calling for the death of its nationals held at the US Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba.
"The interior minister has denied the report as mere lies," Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammad al-Sabah told reporters in response to the US diplomatic telegram leaked by whistleblower website WikiLeaks.
The [...]
NEW YORK (AFP) - Fidel Castro, the longtime president and leftist icon who stepped aside during a health crisis but still leads the Cuban Communist Party, has told a reporter that Israel definitely has the right to exist.
"Yes it does, without a doubt," Castro, 84, told visiting US journalist Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic magazine, according to a new article published Wednesday.
In the same [...]
HAVANA (AFP) - Cuba signed an agreement with Syria Friday to sell the Arab country anti-cancer drugs, vaccines and technology for producing human placenta derivatives, the Cuban press said Friday.
The official Communist Party newspaper Granma said the agreements anticipate the creation in Syria of a center "for the production of human placenta derivatives."
Monoclonal antibodies, an unidentifi [...]
SANAA (AFP) - An Al-Qaeda militant, who served time at the US-run prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has surrendered to Yemeni authorities after expressing remorse over his history, a security source said on Saturday.
Ali Hussein al-Taiss "expressed remorse for having served in Al-Qaeda" and said he was "ready to collaborate" with Yemeni authorities, the source was quoted by the official Sab [...]
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