Cuba seeks $181bn from US

Havana - Cuba has demanded $181

Havana - Cuba has demanded $181.1 billion in US compensation for the death of 3,478 Cubans and injury of 2,099 in four decades of "war" by Washington against President Fidel Castro's revolutionary government.

The ruling Communist Party's daily newspaper, Granma, published a detailed legal demand which it said was presented on Monday to a Havana court by various organisations, including a children's movement, representing the Cuban people.

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