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A Cuban boy plays baseball outside the Pedro
Marrero soccer stadium, next to the bus of the
Cuban national soccer team, in Havana. Cuba
will face Costa Rica in a first round
qualifying match for the World Cup on June 12.
Baseball is Cuba's national sport and passion
and Cuba has only qualified once for the World
Cup, in Italy in 1938, when they lost 8-0 to
Sweden in the quarterfinals.
[Foto: REUTERS/Claudia Daut]
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Recope to Sign For US$90 Million
Pipeline Loans
Costa Rica's state oil refinery Recope (Refinadora
Costarricense de Petroleo) is
currently obtaining the legal authorizations
required for approvals on loans totaling US$90
million for the construction of a 123km pipeline
between Moín and La Garita, Recope's project manager
Javier Abarca told BNamericas.
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World Vision, U.S. Government
Agencies Partner to Combat Child Sex Tourists
U.S. citizens who sexually exploit
children while traveling abroad are the target of a
new joint initiative
launched by World Vision (website) in partnership with the
U.S. Department of State and
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
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Athens 2004 : Costa Rica in group D with Morocco, Iraq
and Portugal
The 16 teams that will
take part in the 2004 Olympic Football Tournament
have all come through an arduous qualification
process enroute for Athens.
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Tourism to Stay Strong in Low Season
The tourism industry foresees a
better "low season" than that of the same period last year.
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G-8 leaders agree to promote private sectors in
developing countries
Leaders from the Group of Eight on Wednesday agreed on a US-led plan to
promote private sectors in developing countries, as part of a three-day
summit dealing with various political and economic issues.
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Tijuana seeks to shake sin city image
With its rowdy tequila bars, massage parlors and betting shops, the Mexican
frontier city of Tijuana has long had a reputation as sin city for weekend
revelers from the United States, according to Thursday's China Daily.
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Britain backs peace talks between ELN rebels,
Colombian government
A British diplomat said here
Wednesday that Britain backs the possible peace talks between the Colombian
government and the country's second largest guerrilla, the National
Liberation Army (ELN).
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