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Gross’ lawyer, Jared Genser, told The Associated Press that Gross has formally petitioned Cuba’s Supreme Court to be allowed to return home temporarily to visit his elderly mother, who is dying of cancer. Earlier this year, a U.S. judge granted a similar plea to Rene Gonzalez, a Cuban agent who is on parole in the United States but was allowed to visit his dying brother in Cuba before returning to the United States. Genser has also filed a petition with the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. The body has no enforcement power, but a ruling in Gross’s favor could add to international pressure on Havana in the case. Genser said Cuba has 60 days to respond, and that the working group will next meet on Nov 14. Gross was on a USAID-funded democracy building program when he was arrested at Havana’s Jose Marti airport. He says he was only trying to provide internet service to the island’s small Jewish community. Cuba says the multi-million dollar programs are a veiled attempt by Washington to undermine the government, and has noted that Gross was carrying sophisticated communications equipment. He was sentenced to 15 years, and has lost his final appeal, leaving him out of legal options. U.S. diplomats were initially hopeful Cuba would release Gross on humanitarian grounds. In addition to his health problems, his elderly mother and adult daughter are battling cancer, and his family has suffered financial hardship since his incarceration. But officials in Havana have become increasingly insistent that Gross’s plight be linked to that of five Cuban agents sentenced to long jail terms in the United States. Washington has said repeatedly it will not consider a trade. The Cold War enemies have been at odds for more than half a century. A short-lived thaw following President Obama’s inauguration has stalled and American diplomats say no progress in possible as long as Gross remains behind bars.

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“The suspect was coming down the big staircase and was asking: ‘Hey, guys what are you doing here?’,” Di Genova said

(CBS/AP) MONTREAL – A 36-year-old man has been charged after he allegedly broke into singer Celine Dion’s home near Montreal and poured himself a bath, police said Tuesday. The man also raided the pop superstar’s fridge before he was nabbed by police in the Montreal suburb of Laval on Monday afternoon, after the alarm system went off. Dion and her husband, Rene Angelil, were not at home at the time. Dion and Angelil usually live in Florida but use the Laval residence when they come home to Quebec. Laval police spokesman Franco Di Genova said the suspect was getting ready to take a nice hot bath when police arrived with a canine unit. “He opened the water faucets, was pouring a nice warmish bath (and) he even managed to eat some pastry that was in the fridge,” Di Genova said. Di Genova said police worked their way through the house, starting with the basement and finally confronted the man on the main floor. “The suspect was coming down the big staircase and was asking: ‘Hey, guys what are you doing here?’,” Di Genova said. “So the officers replied: ‘What are you doing here?’ and they proceeded to put him under arrest.” Di Genova said the man had jumped a fence to get on the property and used a garage door opener that he found in an unlocked vehicle to...

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(CBS/AP) KABUL – NATO says three members of the Afghan national security forces have been killed in an attack at Bagram Air Field, a sprawling U.S

(CBS/AP) KABUL – NATO says three members of the Afghan national security forces have been killed in an attack at Bagram Air Field, a sprawling U.S. base north of Kabul. The coalition said Tuesday it has not yet confirmed whether the three were killed by rockets or mortar rounds that were fired at the base around late Monday night. Gen. Akram Begzad, the police chief in Parwan province where the base is located, said a rocket was fired at the base from an undisclosed location. He says two Afghan intelligence employees were among those killed in the attack. The attack also destroyed a Chinook helicopter belonging to the NATO-led forces. A NATO spokesperson tells CBS News two Western service personnel who were onboard the helicopter were wounded. The extent of their injuries was not given and their nationalities were withheld. U.S. not handing over all Afghan prisonersVideo: Bagram prison handed to Afghan forcesReport: Afghan fuel program lacks accountability Militants occasionally fire mortars or rockets at Bagram, 강릉콜걸 but the attacks generally cause little or no damage. The rocket or mortar attack came just hours after the U.S. military transferred control of the sprawling prison facility at Bagram to Afghan forces. As CBS News correspondent Charlie D’Agata reports, the transfer came with concerns, and some detainees will still be under U.S. watch. Also on Tuesday, Afghan police said a suicide...

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(AP) SANAA, Yemen – An airstrike killed al Qaeda’s No

(AP) SANAA, Yemen – An airstrike killed al Qaeda’s No. 2 leader in Yemen along with six others traveling with him in one car on Monday, U.S. and Yemeni officials said, a major breakthrough for U.S.-backed efforts to cripple the group in the impoverished Arab nation. Saeed al-Shihri, a Saudi national who fought in Afghanistan and spent six years in the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, was killed by a missile after leaving a house in the southern province of Hadramawt, according to Yemeni military officials. They said the missile was believed to have been fired by a U.S.-operated, unmanned drone aircraft. Two senior U.S. officials confirmed al-Shihri’s death but could not confirm any U.S. involvement in the airstrike. The U.S. doesn’t usually comment on such attacks although it has used drones in the past to go after al Qaeda members in Yemen, which is considered a crucial battleground with the terror network. Yemeni military officials said that a local forensics team had identified al-Shihri’s body with the help of U.S. forensics experts on the ground. The U.S. and Yemeni military officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to release the information to the media. Norwegian at center of new al Qaeda plot fearsYemen: Al Qaeda land mines planted by fleeing militants kill 73 civiliansYemen army general leading fight against al Qaeda killed by suicide...

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Ek, who started the company at 23, said the idea for Spotify came from wanting to find a way to get all the music he wanted, legally and affordably, while compensating the artist

With Taylor Swift exclusively releasing her new video “Delicate” on Spotify last week, it would appear that her tiff with the music streaming giant is officially over. Spotify CEO Daniel Ek told “CBS This Morning” on Tuesday that ending the feud took some time and travel by both parties. “I went to Nashville many, many times to talk to her team, spend more time directly explaining the model, why streaming mattered. And the great news is I think she saw how streaming was growing. I think she saw that fans were asking for it. So eventually when the new album came out, she came to Stockholm and spent some time with our team there figuring out a way that made sense for her,” he said. In 2014 Swift pulled her entire catalog of music from Spotify because she felt the company wasn’t fairly compensating artists. “But look, I mean, for me, first off, like I – I should have done a much better job communicating this. So I take full ownership for doing that,” Ek said of the controversy. New video for #Delicate at midnight EST tonight. Only on @spotify  ✨ pic.twitter.com/AHEY6LOSTz Spotify, the world’s largest music streaming site, went public on the New York Stock Exchange Tuesday morning. It launched with a direct listing of shares, which removes the traditional role of investment banks, meaning existing Spotify shareholders can...

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