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USA Today, 20.11.08 00:05 UTC

Nearly 20,000 evacuated in Cuba flooding

HAVANA (AP) — Heavy rains caused a river in eastern Cuba to overflow its banks, flooding highways and more than 2,000 homes, and leading authorities to evacuate nearly 20,000 people, state media said Wednesday.

Miami Herald, 16.09.08 07:32 UTC

Cuba rejects U.S. supplies, asks for suspension of trade embargo

Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Shannon called the offer made to Cuban diplomats ''unique and unprecedented,'' because in the interest of speeding up delivery, the U.S. government was prepared to ...

Times Online World News, 09.09.08 15:33 UTC

Four killed as Hurricane Ike rakes Cuba

Four people are reported dead and at least two million people have fled their homes on Cuba as the second hurricane in under a week rakes across the island . The refugees - around 15 per cent of ...

USA Today, 08.09.08 14:31 UTC

Powerful Hurricane Ike may swipe Florida Keys

KEY WEST, Florida — Most storm-hardened residents of the Florida Keys stayed put Monday despite day-old instructions to evacuate as a ferocious Hurricane Ike ripped across Cuba and stayed on track to swipe the low-lying island chain.

The Independent, 08.09.08 13:02 UTC

More evacuations as storm hits Cuba

Hurricane Ike roared across Cuba today, tearing off roofs and sending waves crashing into buildings, as 900,000 Cubans fled to shelters or higher ground and Havana residents in decaying historic ...

USA Today, 08.09.08 03:01 UTC

Hurricane Ike makes landfall in Cuba

MIAMI (AP) — The National Hurricane Center in Miami says powerful Hurricane Ike has roared ashore in eastern Cuba.