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01/07/2015 US and Cuba announce agreement to re-open embassies

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U.S. and Cuba to open embassies

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Cuba & US poised to reopen embassies

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Re-Establishment of Diplomatic Relations With Cuba

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Historic Day in Cuba: American Flag Flying at Embassy in Havana

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Exclusive look inside U.S. Embassy in Havana

John Kerry formally reopened the US embassy in Cuba with a flag-raising ceremony. It was the first visit to Cuba by a US secretary of state since 1945, and the ceremony at the newly recommissioned US embassy in the Cuban capital marked the return of an American presence to a building the US had vacated in 1961.
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