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Presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro meet in Havana

Published: 21 Mar 2016 - 06:12 pm | Last Updated: 10 Nov 2021 - 01:11 pm
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U.S. President Barack Obama and Cuba's President Raul Castro shake hands during their first meeting on the second day of Obama's visit to Cuba, in Havana March 21, 2016. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst 


Havana: US President Barack Obama and his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro met Monday in Havana's Palace of the Revolution for groundbreaking talks on ending the standoff between the two neighbors.

Obama, seeing Castro only for the third time in a formal setting, was the first US president in Cuba since 1928.

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